Mewtwo Strikes Back

by Tracey West

Scientists cloned the legendary Pokemon Mew to create Mewtwo, the most powerful Pokemon in the wold. Only no one counted on a mad, mean Mewtwo! Now it wants to rule, and it will stop at nothing to get its way.

Mewtwo sets a trap for the world's best Pokemon trainers. It plans to steal their Pokemon and make super-nasty clones--clones strong enough to defeat all the real Pokemon. Even Ash and Pikachu are no match for Mewtwo and its cunning copies.

Now only Mew can save the world from Mewtwo's Poke power. Mew, go! It's a double-trouble Pokemon showdown.

Genres: Childrens, Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Science Fiction, Novels

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Tracey West is the New York Times bestselling author of Dragon Masters, a series in the Scholastic Branches line. She has written more than 400 books for kids, including the Pixie Tricks series and the Underdogs series with Kyla May.

Some readers also know Tracey for writing books based on animation such as Pokémon and LEGO Ninjago.

She currently lives in the western Catskills of New York with her husband, Bill; their adopted dogs; and a whole mess of chickens.

Reviews

[Jerry (Rebel With a Massive Media Library) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Oh, the things I read to get ahead on my reading goal...

Seriously, though: This book had a major nostalgia factor for me. Like many kids of my generation, I had a Game Boy with a Pokémon RPG, and I watched the anime on TV.

Also, while I was into those "pocket monsters," a journal topic at school instructed us to write a letter to our favorite author. I wasn't much of a reader back then...so, the only writer I could think of was Tracey West, who has written many Poké-novels...including this one.

This book was better than you'd expect from a kiddie blockbuster novelization; the writing wasn't great, but, it worked. Unfortunately, Meowth's iconic line was left out; that was the best part of the movie!

Now, I can say that I've read this...and add it to my trade-in pile!

[Jay DeMoir · Rating 4 out of 5]

ONE WORD: Nostalgic

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love a classic Pokémon tale and it's so nice that this one follows the original characters and uses original Pokémon - especially those that are familiar to children. This story will delight children.

[J.B. Mathias · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was ridiculous even for Pokemon, the whole thing with Pokemon tears creating life...so stupid. The whole concept of a cloned Pokemon cloning other Pokemon to take over the world also seemed silly. A lot of the messages are very thin and cliche or just outright bad. The writing is also not very good, it might be because of the dialogue originally being Japanese but it's written very matter of fact and kind of stilted.

I also don't understand why Jessie and James are suddenly on their side here, this was originally a team rocket scheme but they seemed to be morally outraged at the idea of cloning Pokemon for no reason. I also don't understand Mew, why it showed up the way it did, what it was doing or why it was doing it. Mewtwo's motivation also seemed weird...to go from I don't want to be anyones slave or experiment to...now I want to enslave other Pokemon and take over the world...went from 0 to tyrant in what seemed like a day of being alive.

The story also resolves so quickly with so much unbelievable deus ex machina. Oh I see you care about each other now I'm going to change all my views and actions...so dumb.

They tried to make Pokemon a story about more than just cute little monster animals that you collect and battle into something deeper and spiritual and it just fell flat.

[Renee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pokemon The First Movies Chapter Book Mewtwo Strikes Back

Lots of Extremely good Pokemon Trainers end up on an Island. They were invited to battle the greatest Pokemon Master & Pokemon in the entire universe.

Everyone learns that not all Pokemon Masters are evil... They also learn that Pokemon and Humans can live together in Peace.

I really loved this chapter book on the movie Mewtwo Strikes Back <3

[Valentine Lin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just read out of nostalgia. I could picture every scene from the movie while reading. I did find some typos (Eevee spelled Evee, Neesha’s name switched to Sugar, a sentence almost directly repeated), but it’s a kids book and a very accurate adaptation of the movie so these things didn’t matter very much to me.

[Tamara · Rating 4 out of 5]

My son read this aloud to me. He gives it 4 stars.

[Patty꧁꧂ Wilby · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this. Anybody who wants to know Mewtwo's origins should read this book. It's hard to find because it's vintage.

[Bjørn Hastrup Jacobsen · Rating 3 out of 5]

They used the word "cried" to much.

[Gray Kemplin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good Pokemon book.

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book of the film! Very simply and nicely written. I think this was the first book I bought with my own money!

[James Phillips · Rating 2 out of 5]

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