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Yes.

Rather...

The American film industry is dumb as heck. They seem to think that anime stuff is basically a Nick direct-to-film movie. I mean, hell, for as horrible as the Avatar movie was, it was 10,000% more faithful to the source material than the Dragonball movie.

If Hollywood got their hands on the pokemon liscense it wouldn't be Pokemon, it would be about a young social outcast 'Ash' who is desperately trying to impress his childhood crush 'Misty' with his best friend and comedy relief 'Brock'. Ash's grandfather, 'Oak', would be some crazy old kook with a bunch of ancient stock asian stuff to seem mystical like jade dragons, gongs, and so-forth and talk about how a bunch of miniature statues contain the spirits of ancient warriors named 'Blurbasaur', 'Chalarmander', and 'Squatle' which Ash, of course, will totally ignore and write off as crazy-talk despite evidence to the contrary that Oak is telling the truth.

All the while Ash's attempts to woo Misty will horribly fail while the school alpha 'Gary' will invite Misty out to the upcoming prom/dance/similar social event. She will accept despite secretly being in love with Ash. Meanwhile fellow childhood friend 'Serena' whom always had an unrequited crush on Ash will attempt to make a move on him. Ash will attempt to impress Misty one to three more times, failing horribly each time yet in an endearing way while Brock provides cheap one-liners while hitting on the school nurse 'Joy' while principle 'Jenny' hounds him and tries to keep Ash and Brock in line.

Eventually the evil pokemon 'Mewtwo' will show up and attempt to steal the statues from Oak. The outcome is irrelevant as Oak will end up severely wounded and likely dying (don't worry, he won't ACTUALLY die as he'll show up right before the end credits on crutches or something) before Mewtwo unleashes the pokemon on the school transforming all the students into pokemon, including turning Misty into a 'Pikalchu'. Realizing his grandfather was telling the truth Ash and co will return home to obtain the three pokemon warrior thingies and unleash their powers to defeat the various students-turned-pokemon including Gary whom will either beg for Ash, Brock, and Serena (who will have had almost no lines up to this point, of course) to help him or, more likely, wreck havoc on the trio and school for no good reason what-so-ever beyond 'trying to steal my girl' despite having likely been transformed into a Nidoking. The final battle against Mewtwo will take place somewhere where it will seem epic for the trailer but will actually be quite lame as the group uses various skills and the like utilized in the first half of the movie, in the bits where they attempted to impress Misty but failed, to defeat him for good with no help from the Pokemon at all. After all is said and done Ash will either finally get his dance with Misty or, more likely, realize he was in love with Serena all along (she still will have the fewest lines out of the main cast and supporting cast will have more) and dance with her. Brock will finally get Joy to reciprocate, and whichever girl got stiffed will look on but try to be happy for Ash. Oh. And one final shot will show that Oak is okay. Then, as the credits roll, there will be a stinger for a sequel where Team Rocket shows up that, hopefully, will never be produced.
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