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Giratina and the Sky Warrior ギラティナと氷空の花束 シェイミ Giratina and the Sky's Bouquet: Shaymin

Premiere Japan July 19, 2008 United States February 13, 2009*

Home video Japan December 19, 2008 United States March 31, 2009

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Ratings United States ? Great Britain ? Ireland ? Canada ? Quebec ? Japan ? Germany ? Australia ? New Zealand ?

Giratina and the Sky Warrior (Japanese:ギラティナと氷空の花束 シェイミ Giratina and the Sky's Bouquet: Shaymin) is the second Pokémon movie of the Diamond & Pearl movie trilogy, and the eleventh Pokémon movie overall. It premiered in Japan on July 19, 2008. It first aired in the US on February 13, 2009, and the DVD will be released on the 31st of March. The movie ties in heavily with the soon to be released (at the time of its premiere in both regions) Pokémon Platinum.

Other posters and DVD covers

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  Pikachu the Movie poster

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  Giratina and the Sky's Bouquet movie poster

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  Giratina and the Sky's Bouquet: Shaymin final movie poster

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  Japanese Giratina and the Sky's Bouquet: Shaymin DVD cover

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  English promotional image prior to US DVD release date announcement

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  Poster handed out at a Toys 'R' Us event

Summary

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

The film begins with Shaymin by an oasis, as Dialga appears. It drinks from the water, before being attacked by Giratina from the Reverse World (rumored to be the "Distortion World"). The angered Giratina comes through a portal, grabbing Dialga and dragging it into the Reverse World. Shaymin gets caught in a whirlwind and is sucked through the portal, too. Dialga and Giratina fight, while Shaymin tries to survive - unnoticed by the giants - the battle. A adventurous-looking man with a Shieldon watches the battles from a far, spotting Shaymin. There are also glimpses of a computer simulation observing the battle, on the ship of Zero. Zero is the film's villain, who seems to be watching Giratina with the aim of capturing it.

As the battle progresses, Shaymin absorbs a dark gas, and then does what looks like to be exploding. The explosion tears a hole in space and time, creating a portal back to the real world which pulls Shaymin through it. Dialga escapes through the portal, but it closes before Giratina can get through. Giratina keeps hitting the same spot over and over, in what the computer calls a "time loop". Dialga then flies off. Shaymin is thrown into a river, and goes out of control down a huge mountain to a small seaside town. We find Ash, Brock and Dawn in the town, with their Pokémon, enjoying Brock's cooking once more. Ash is scolded for not washing his hands before eating. As everyone is preoccupied with the Pokémon eating, a grey Shaymin starts eating "hot cakes" from the table. Piplup attacks Shaymin, causing a barbecue to be knocked over in the chaos. Shaymin absorbs the smoke and then explodes as before. Dawn saves Shaymin from being attacked by all the angry Pokémon, washing her under a tap. Its revealed that Shaymin can talk telepathically, and it talks of "that place", which irritates Ash as he can't understand. Shaymin teases Ash a lot about being stupid, but befriends Dawn.

They take Shaymin to a Pokémon Center, where Brock hits on Nurse Joy until his Croagunk punches him and drags him away (which typically happens when he hits on girls in the Diamond and Pearl saga). Shaymin says that it'll lead them to "that place", sitting on Ash's head and making him move where it wants to go as he complains. Team Rocket watch in the Pokémon Center, and decide to try to steal Shaymin. In a garden full of strange isometric and rectangular statues, the sides of some start to ripple and Giratina appears briefly. Team Rocket pick up Shaymin and run off, but are then sucked into a statue, which has become a portal to the Reverse World. Everyone except Brock is sucked through, where Ash, Dawn, Pikachu and Piplup battle Giratina while rescuing Shaymin. Running from Giratina, they bump into the man who watched the earlier battle, who introduces himself as Newton Graceland, a "genius scientist". Ash and Dawn comment on him introducing himself as a "genius scientist", and Shaymin mocks him. He leads them to a portal back to the real world, while explaining that Dialga and Palkia's battle (in The Rise of Darkrai) caused a black smoke to fill the Reverse World. This infuriated Giratina, explaining its attack on Dialga in the beginning of the film. Pikachu, Piplup, Shaymin, Ash, and Dawn return to the garden, where Brock is waiting. Meanwhile, Team Rocket is comparing the Reverse World to a funhouse when they see the portal back home. Team Rocket appear too late, and are left behind with Newton in the Reverse World.

Back in the garden, Ash and Dawn attempt to explain about the Reverse World and Giratina, but are stopped by the appearance of many Magnemite and Magneton. Zero comes down on a hover-board, with Magnezone as his side-kick. They disable the Magnemites long enough for them to flee into the streets of the town, chased by Zero's Magnemites, Magnetons and the Magnezone. Escaping onto a train leaving town, they talk with people on the train, and Shaymin transforms into its Sky Forme when exposed to the Gracidea flower. It is explained that Shaymin transforms when exposed to Gracidea Flowers, found at the top of the mountain, where all the Shaymin live. It is then decided to help Shaymin return home. The train is attacked by Zero's Pokémon, who are fought off by Pikachu, Piplup and Shaymin. Magnezone smashes the side of the train, but is repelled just before the train enters a tunnel, leaving all Zero's Pokémon to smash into the side of a hill.

On a boat, the group are going up a river to reach Shaymin's garden. They play around, and Shaymin teases Ash more, until Zero appears again. A portal opens in the water, sucking Shaymin and the others in, and Zero and his Pokémon follow. Ash, Dawn, and Brock battle Zero's Pokémon, and find Newton, who leads them into a cave. Giratina and Shaymin battle, until Shaymin's Sky Forme transformation wears off. It's saved by Pikachu on Staravia, who rejoin with the group. Shaymin causes another explosion by absorbing the dark gas, allowing them to escape, and Giratina and Zero follow. With everyone in the real world, a gigantic airship appears in the valley which Zero flies to with his Pokémon. Giratina changes to its normal form, and sits on the bank of the river. A gun from Zero's ship shoots Giratina, who flies up to attack the ship, but is caught in a giant trap that begins sucking Giratina's energy away.

Everyone except Brock board a hover-board and fly up to the ship, where they battle Zero's Pokémon, and Newton enters the ship to disable the computer. It is revealed in a flashback that Zero used to be Newton's pupil, studying the Reverse World, until he became obsessed with Giratina's power and decided to catch and take his power. Newton disables the computer and the trap, freeing Giratina who collapses unconscious inside the trap, but also accidentally turns off the ship's engines. The trap falls apart, dropping Giratina into the river, and the ship begins to come down. Everyone escapes on the hover-board, except Zero who stays on his ship. Just before the ship crashes, a smaller ship separates from it. The larger ship crashes into the forest, as Pokémon flee from it. Giratina climbs out of the water, then drops down and seems to be dead. He starts to breathe gently, though, so everyone and all the Pokémon from the forest gather around. Shaymin heals Giratina, just before Zero reappears in his small ship. Giratina chases Zero through a portal into the Reverse World, where Zero smashes towers of ice. In the real world, this disturbs a glacier on the mountain, which begins to slide down the mountain, toward the town. As Giratina and Zero fight, everyone tries to think of a way to stop the glacier destroying the town. The disturbance uncovers Regigigas's temple, awaking him and causing him to come out and stop the glacier, with the help of a herd of Mamoswine which it summoned.

Shaymin turns into its Sky Forme and creates a portal, allowing Ash into the Reverse World, where Giratina is being defeated by Zero. Team Rocket watch, admitting they would like to help but can't think how they could. Ash jumps on the ship and tries to persuade Zero to stop. He refuses, closing up his shields as a dark cloud covers everyone. Ash covers his face to protect himself, as Shaymin absorbs it all. The explosion opens a portal back to the real world, sucking the ship through. Zero refuses to let the ship return, however, until Giratina fires a ball of energy which shoots it through. Team Rocket and everyone is sucked through the portal, leaving the Reverse World, with enough time to allow Giratina to leave. Zero's ship crashes down next to Regigigas, before it is covered in ice by Piplup and other Pokémon with Ice Beam. Everyone rejoices stopping the glacier, then find the Shaymin garden nearby. It is full of other Shaymin. Shaymin says goodbye, admitting that it actually likes Ash, and leaves with tears in its eyes. All the Shaymin turn into Sky Forme, and fly away. Giratina is seen flying off too, to continue its attack on Dialga.

In the closing credits sequence, Ash, Dawn, and Brock send Gracideas to their families. Zero's ship is recovered, and he is arrested by Officer Jenny and helped out of his ship by Newton. Ash and co. leave the town to continue their Pokémon journey.

Major events

Debuts

• Magnezone
• Abomasnow
• Mamoswine
• Froslass
• Magmortar (cameo, Lucas's)
• Rhyperior (cameo, Brendan's)
• Leafeon (cameo)
• Togekiss (cameo)
• Cresselia (cameo)

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Layla
• Moose
• Zero
• Newton Graceland
• Officer Jenny
• Delia
• Flint
• Lola
• Johanna
• Brock's siblings
• Layla's great-grandmother

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Chimchar (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Gliscor (Ash's)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Pachirisu (Dawn's)
• Ambipom (Dawn's)
• Swinub (Dawn's)
• Sudowoodo (Brock's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Happiny (Brock's)
• Glameow (Johanna's)
• Giratina (anime; Origin Forme and Altered Forme)
• Dialga (anime)
• Regigigas (anime)
• Shaymin (anime; Sky Forme and Land Forme)
• Palkia (anime; flashback)
• Magnemite (Zero's)
• Magneton (Zero's)
• Magnezone (Zero's; debut)
• Shieldon (Newton's)
• Abomasnow (debut)
• Mamoswine (debut)
• Froslass (debut)
• Aggron
• Lairon
• Aron
• Wingull
• Swablu
• Altaria
• Stantler
• Ursaring
• Teddiursa
• Azurill
• Marill
• Azumarill
• Snover

Cast

Staff

Reception

It took second place in the Japanese box office from its release during July 19-20, where 982,000 people spending ¥1,018,770,000 (US $9,463,400) and was beaten by Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, which 1,251,107 people spent ¥1,575,820,000 (about $14,638,000) to see.

It is tracking at 89.8% of the box office performance of the last year's Pokémon film, The Rise of Darkrai (Japanese Dialga vs. Palkia vs. Darkrai), which eventually earned a franchise record of ¥5.02 billion (US $47 million).

Trivia

• This is the first movie to be a sequel of a previous movie. Although Mewtwo Returns is a sequel to Mewtwo Strikes Back, it is an anime special rather than a Pokémon movie.
• The events of this movie happen between the episodes Arriving in Style! and The Psyduck Stops Here!, and premiered in Japan between those episodes. Coincidentally, the DVD release in Japan (which is when most Western fans finally get to see the raw movie) was in the same week the dub aired Arriving in Style!.
• The staff went to three locations in Norway to form a basis for the movie's setting - Sognefjorden (the second largest Fjord in the world), Jostedalsbreen (the largest glacier in Europe), and Bergen (the second largest city in Norway).
• This movie marks the second time when a legendary Pokémon from a previous movie reappears. The only other time was in Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, where Mew made a second appearance after Mewtwo Strikes Back. It was, however, a different Mew, whereas the Dialga in this movie is the same one that battled with Palkia over Alamos Town in The Rise of Darkrai.
  • This is also the first Pokémon movie where a legendary Pokémon reappears immediately after the previous film.
• The ending theme song for the movie is ONE by Crystal Kay while the English dub ending song for the movie is "It's A Beautiful World" by Aaron Brotherton.
• Origin Forme Giratina and Sky Forme Shaymin debuted in this movie prior to their game debut in Pokémon Platinum.
• Palkia doesn't have a role in the movie despite it being on the first movie poster. It only makes a cameo in a flashback. This marks the second time that a Pokémon appear on the posters even though they don't actually appear in the movie itself, the first being in Jirachi: Wish Maker (one of whose posters showed Treecko and Mudkip, which did not play a role in the film). The poster for the non-Japanese release of Mewtwo Strikes Back also showed several unused Pokémon in stock poses.
• This movie marks the first time that Brock's family and Dawn's mother appear in a movie, and the first time Delia appears in a movie since Spell of the Unown.
• The people who gave Gracideas to the families of Ash, Brock and Dawn may be a reference to the people in green who give players their Mystery Gift in the games.
• The mother and girl that were reading the legend of Rota in the beginning of Lucario and the Mystery of Mew and were seen buying a cotton candy and running away from Darkrai in The Rise of Darkrai are seen again making a cameo in this movie.
• Lucas and Brendan make a cameo in the opening of the movie, battling with Magmortar and Rhyperior, respectively. This may reference the meeting of their female counterparts, who battled in the finals of the Wallace Cup.
• The movie shows Eevee and all the Eeveelutions (Jolteon, Flareon, Vaporeon, Espeon, Umbreon, Glaceon, and Leafeon) during the opening sequence.
• This is the first movie to have the introduction credits take place during the title sequence.
• While marketed as a Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl movie, the series logo has the katakana for Platinum added to the bottom.
• This movie is the first time the Pokémon anime in any form is presented in an HDTV format in addition to standard definition in its initial airing.
• The red flower petal on the title logo is the same petal that's on a Shaymin (Sky Forme).
• Giratina's roar is the same as the monster "Megaguirus" from the 2000 Godzilla film Godzilla vs. Megaguirus. This is not a coincidence, as Giratina and the Sky Warrior and Godzilla vs. Megaguirus were both released by Toho Company, Ltd. in Japan.

Errors

• In the intro, Pikachu is seen using an Electric-Type attack on an Electivire, which seems to be taking damage, despite it's abiity.
• When Ash and Dawn are pulled into the Reverse World for the first time, Piplup's wings are the same color as its head and "cape".
• When Piplup attempts to use BubbleBeam on Giratina, Shaymin's flowers are a dark purple (the color they become when Shaymin absorbs pollution).
• When Shaymin is about to approach Meowth, a few frames show its front paw has three toes instead of two.

External links

• Giratina and the Sky Warrior at IMDb
• Official website (Japanese)
• Official website (English)

In other languages

• Dutch: Giratina en de Krijger van de Lucht
• French: Giratina et le Gardien du Ciel
• German: Giratina und der Himmelsritter
• Japanese: ギラティナと氷空の花束 シェイミ
• Portuguese: Giratina e o Buquê do Céu
• Spanish: Giratina y el Defensor de los Cielos
• Finnish: Giratina ja Taivassoturi
• Swedish: Giratina och Krigaren från himlen