Every Pokemon Movie Ranked Worst To Best

23. Hoopa And The Clash Of Ages

There's little escaping the sense that the relative failures of the XY era's film adaptations - by and large vastly inferior to the corresponding adventures on the small-screen - cost the subsequent Sun and Moon run their own big-screen treatment. If that's the case, then the blame can be laid squarely here, at the franchise's weakest effort.

On paper, it's a mashup of every fan's dream - an effective battle royale of Legendary Pokemon spanning multiple generations. In execution though, it's overshadowed by its title star, whose streak of mischief feels more like irritable petulance than anything else. It's a significant shame, and one that sticks out like a sore thumb even amid the latter-day sponginess of the film series.