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Back from Movie 20′s French-dub screening!

... I probably wouldn’t have gone to see it if not for the card and the QR code (still not sure whether it’s the same code for everyone or a specific one to unlock Pikachu through Internet, so in case it was the latter...), but that’s because I was one of the lucky folks who were at the ~world première~ at Japan Expo back in July, which was the Japanese version with subtitles x') So I didn’t have a “NEED TO SEE IT FOR A FIRST TIME.” in itself, I’m not super-fond of the French dub in general and wasn’t exactly thrilled to discover it.

Warning probably concerning all the dubs (well, I only know for sure it’s the case in French, but French dub changes are usually the same as English etc.): goodbye to Shinji Miyazaki’s music tracks. Yes, they replaced them and it sucked hard. I found it a bit harder to get immersed with the replacements, they're just. boring and generic and giving the same vibe all through the movie, instead of highlighting or punching you with feelings here and there? At the same time, they kinda fit for a movie seen with a big crowd: it’s not an inner experience where you forget your surroundings, but something a bit more... detached, while you're conscious of the sounds and laughters around? (As I said: it also makes it way more generic.)

Audience was good! Like, a dude behind me exploded with laughter when we had the random Koduck+Tosakinto and then the Hitodeman+Starmie cameos in-between scenes, so I think that the Kasumi references were spotted. Overall, the crowd snorted HARD at Pikachu being a gleeful jerk towards the beginning of the movie (and at Satoshi’s complicated relationship with stairs), there were a few offended yells at some scenes (“OH LE BÂTARD” during The Kick, some gasps when Satoshi Said What He Said To Pikachu.), etc., so... no mockery, no booing (I was especially scared of that because of The Cameos during the ending credits and nop! No bad reactions!), not too much nostalgia (people were humming the first French opening when it came up but there was no animosity towards other gens) and people sounding engrossed!

I found some French lines super-good in context (ce totalement deadpan “Arrête, je pleure.” de Cross après l’un des Discours Sur Le Pouvoir Et La Valeur de L’Amitié de Satoshi était. Beau.), they actually ADDED some PikaShipping I think (“Pikachu, tu m'aimes..........” (?) ufdnjefudjn). Makoto’s first lines were >:D too! And I think Hanako was extra-funnier in French, I think she was rambling a bit more than in Japanese? =D Other times, it was a bit painful/awkward and I got the feeling that Marshadow’s motivations were handled even more badly than in Japanese, but I’m not sure - it had been one of the main flaws that I remembered from the pre-screening, so I’m not sure if there were indeed some changes or if seeing it a second time made it even more obvious (like... some characters Apparently Suddenly Knowing Everything About Marshadow’s Intentions when... its behaviour didn’t make it transparent at all? And still the lack of understanding of why is it acting the way it is/what does it want exactly/how the hell its actions are supposed to serve its goals.........).

Confirming everything that had been said and that I had said about ~Makoto’s mom~, it was even less subtle than what I remembered. (Still those slighly sepia tones on the picture). She is suuuuuch a little monkey at the beginning <333 (And aaaaah, Souji... ;_;)