"I came when I heard you beat the elite four"
There's something about pokemon that makes it feel fresh every installment. The games, not the show. Each generation gets slightly better writing, and thus, less material to make fun of, so it only makes sense for people to write parodies based off their first experiences, the first generation. And after at least a decade since those games, the evil Team Rocket and their subsequent replacements are still lame, and Professor Oak is still creepy. Pokemon parodies have been done a lot, especially in Flash animation, so the main concern with writing them is not how to make them funny, but how to keep them fresh, the way each pokemon game is supposed to feel fresh.
This parody was a bit different. Instead of a "Pokemon Abridged"-esque tale, we were given a plot as well as a comedy. Albeit one that differs from standard Pokemon shenanigans. I don't think the music and pop culture references helped the theme here, but they were entertaining. I really liked how you made use of sprites from Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. It seems like that would be a given for a pokemon sprite movie, but I've yet to see somebody use them until now. The voice acting wasn't stellar, in my opinion. In that none of them could compare to skitty's voice actor. Overall, this movie isn't totally different from previous Pokemon parodies, but I think it stands out among them. Nice work, Esty.