a man reads an acient profesy about the legendry birds and the beast of the sea and plans to steal the legendry birds starting with moltres with his main goal to get lugia. he succeeds at getting moltres. ash and friends are sailing along in a booat in the mean time and relaxing in the sunshine to have a break and let the pokemon out for a rest when a storm hits forcing them towards to the center of the islands called shomuti (which is also where team rocket end up) the weather is also wild as far as away as kanto. we find out on the island is a big celebration and a girl named melody is following in her mums footsteps as the lead in the celebration and ash earns the right to travel to the three islands to get the gems of the legendries for the celebration. ash and the woman who took him to the island head off to get the gems and go to fire island first in the storm which they are able to get. melody misty and tracy follow behind them as do team rocket. the boat is wrecked on fire island. they head for lightning island next but zapdos beats them there and pikachu tries to communicate with it. at this point the man from earlier the villian comes to steal zapdos but accidentally takes ash friends and team rocket as well who try and free the legendry pokemon after he explains the plan. ash and friends are able to free the legendries with auticuno now involved its an all out fight. ash has the lighning island orb but not the ice one where he has to go at this point lugia appears but is no match for the other legendries on its own and despite getting ash to ice island (with team rocket are able to hold on) they fail at getting back so the song helps with the situation and despite another attack from the villian it all ends well and ash even gets to ride on lugias back.
overall quite an interesting moive a classic but there are better ones.
score 8.5/10
songs
“pokemon world (season 2) theme” early on during the boat scene
“power of one song” “polkamon” “flying without wings” credits