I'm 27 years old and I may not have ever really gotten into any of the Pokemon games (except maybe Snap for the 64), and I could really have taken or left the TV series (I preferred Digimon's TV series anyway, but that's another matter), but whenever one of the Pokemon movies comes on TV, I have to stop whatever I'm doing and sit down and watch it. The stories may be a bit contrived, but compared to most of what's coming out in movies it's gold and platinum joined in holy matrimony. They're also very pretty, with very solid character designs and some really slick production values (it's actually hilarious that these movies have all the visual splendor of anything Disney came out with Pre-Lilo&Stitch, yet was made on less than one-tenth the budget).