Pokémon: Mewtwo Strikes Back – Evolution is a 2019 Japanese animated fantasy film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama and Motonori Sakakibara. It is the twenty-second film of the Pokémon anime series and a CGI remake of Pokémon: The First Movie (1998). The film was animated by OLM, Inc., OLM Digital, and Sprite Animation Studios.[2] At the same time, the events of the film take place during Pokémon: Indigo League. It was released in Japan on July 12, 2019, and on Netflix worldwide on February 27, 2020.
Plot
Scientist Dr. Fuji is hired by Giovanni, leader of Team Rocket, to utilize his expertise in cloning to create a living weapon based on an eyelash from Pokémon Mew. Soon after the weapon is created, it gains sentience and is named Mewtwo.
Several years later, Mewtwo has fully awakened from a long slumber in a laboratory on New Island and learns of his origin as Mew's clone from Dr. Fuji. Infuriated that Fuji and his colleagues see him as nothing more than an experiment, he unleashes his psychic powers and destroys the laboratory, killing Fuji and the rest of the scientists.