Eventually, they all learn that the Castle’s removal from the mountaintop has unleashed the Earth’s “Dragon Force,” which threatens to wreak havoc and destroy the world. Damon has revived Reshiram, which does his bidding, forcing Ash to revive Zekrom to oppose Reshiram, resulting in explosive battles in the sky between the two dragon Pokémon who were once allies.
Once the action shifts to the castle and it starts to move, with all the central characters deposited there, the narrative kicks into gear for a solid hour of adventure and suspense as Ash and company, allied with Damon’s mother and sister, seek to stop Damon from exploiting Victini so heartlessly. Thankfully, it’s broken up by cute interactions with the adorable little Victini, who is lured out into the open by some cookies that Ash’s traveling companion Cilan, a Pokémon Connoisseur and master chef, has prepared. There’s a lot of exposition in the first half-hour as we get the whole story about the history of the castle and its people. When Damon gets wind of this, he captures Victini and uses its power to harness the “pillars of protection,” which acted as a barrier to keep Victini from leaving, and lift the castle up to move it. When our regular hero, Ash Ketchum, shows up with his companions in the mountaintop town of Eindoak, built in the shadow of the castle, to participate in a local festival and have a few Pokémon battles, he encounters the elusive Victini and coaxes it into public view for the first time in a thousand years. Damon wants to move it back to its original home and restore the Kingdom of the Vale. Legend has it that the old king had used his magic, aided by a powerful little psychic Pokémon named Victini, to lift the castle up from the war-torn area and float it to the mountain peak where it’s currently situated.
The key character here is a young man named Damon, a descendant of the “People of the Vale” who’d ruled the region a thousand years earlier and whose kingdom had been split up by a devastating war between two princes, each of which controlled a competing dragon Pokémon, a black one called Zekrom and a white one called Reshiram.
The central element here is a floating castle that rises up from a mountain peak in a region that most reminded me of the Andes mountain range in South America. The movie is a real big screen adventure, with a plot that owes more than a little to Hayao Miyazaki’s classic, Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986).
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