| Overall: | B- |
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| Violence: | B- |
| Sexual Content: | A |
| Language: | A |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | A |
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After watching a movie with your children or students, we encourage parents and teachers to look for education opportunities to teach with movies. Here are a few discussion topics that can help with lesson plans or teaching in the home.
Ask your children if they think a romance between Ash and Misty will make the Pokemon craze more attractive to young girls? Or will young boys lose interest in Pokemon if Ash becomes Misty-eyed?
You may want to check out parody king Weird Al Yankovic’s Polkamon. It’s available on the movie’s soundtrack, or you can hear it with Real Audio at http://feature.atlrec.com/Pokemon/polkamon_full_isdn.ra .

Rod Gustafson has worked in various media industries since 1977. He founded Parent Previews in 1993, and today continues to write and broadcast the reviews in newspapers, on radio and (of course) on the Internet. He currently serves as the President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness, a provincial non-profit society. He also authors a regular column for