Pokmon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea, originally released in Japan as Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation the Movie Pokmon Ranger and the Prince of the Sea Manaphy , Gekijban Poketto Monsut Adobansu Jenershon Pokemon Renj to Umi no ji Manafi? , is a 2006 Japanese anime film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama as the fourth and final Pocket Monsters Advanced Generation film, and the ninth Pokmon film overall. As indicated by the title, elements from the Nintendo DS game Pokmon Ranger play a large part. The movie is released on July 16, 2006 in Japan. In North America, Cartoon Network aired the film on March 23, 2007.
The film opens with Jack Jackie Walker, a Pokmon ranger undercover, infiltrating Phantom the Pirates ship and retrieving a special Pokmon egg to prevent Phantoms selfish desires. Jackie manages to escape with the help of a Mantine, a waterflying type Pokmon. Sometime later Ash Ketchum along with his Pikachu, Brock, May, and her younger brother Max stumble upon the Marina Group, a traveling family circus consisted of water and psychictype Pokmon. They meet Elizabeth, the star and daughter of Kyle and Meredith, performers and Kyles father Chip, the conductor. They kindly take in Ash and the others who are suffering from dehydration in the wasteland. After a performance at a nearby town, May discovers the same egg shown earlier in the film by the Marina Groups pet Buizel, a watertype Pokmon. A clown apparently traveling with the group takes away the egg and hands it to Elizabeth. That night, May has a dream with her encountering a temple under the sea and a mysterious Pokmon. That morning she explains it to everyone and it turns out that Marina Group have all had that dream and tell the others about a group of people called the People of the Water, stating that they are in relation with them. Meanwhile, Team Rocket Jessie, James and Meowth raid the Marina Groups trailer for the egg and attempt to hand it over to Phantom. They fail when the Marina Groups clown reveals himself as Jack Walker who captures a Fearow to retrieve it.Jackie explains that the egg belongs to a legendary watertype Pokmon called Manaphy and that his mission is to deliver it to Samiya, the sea temple. Shortly, Phantom and his goons arrive to steal the egg. After a brief struggle, the egg hatches in Mays arms revealing Manaphy. After escaping Phantom, the group arrive at a series of ruins where Kyle uses a bracelet referred as the People of the Waters mark to open a secret water route leading to a chamber that displays a legend about Samiya. Ash and the others learn that Samiya can blend in with th
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