10 Movies You're Embarrassed You Love

Here’s one for the 90s kids. The Pokémon movies have never actually been any good (although we can hope Detective Pikachu will break that streak) and Pokémon: The First Movie is ridden with cheesy clichés and over-the-top voice acting, and is basically incomprehensible to anyone who doesn’t know Pokémon inside and out.

But you couldn’t ever cross your heart and swear you didn’t bawl your eyes out when Ash was turned into stone and Pikachu started crying. For a whole generation, that scene was the Bambi’s Mum - even if Ash got back up eventually, nobody ever wants to see Pikachu crying ever again. It’s too heart-wrenching.

Pokémon has gotten so much more complex since then, with 809 species and counting - and that’s not including all the individual species variations. Pokémon: The First Movie is a great throwback to a simpler time when there was only 152, and complete with the Origin of Mewtwo on the DVD release it’s a pretty compelling character arc in the lead villain that challenges the ethics of Pokémon battling.

It’s surprisingly self-aware, but the movie’s still bad, and still admitting you cried your eyes out at that one damn scene. Because everyone did.