You ever wondered what would happen if people in France started kidnapping Pokémon cosplayers and making them battle in an underground fight club? Me either, but director Briac Ragot has decided to show us anyways.

The film starts out with a girl dressed as Pikachu passing out fliers for a local Comic-Con when she is approached by two men with big red Rs on their shirts…and really, she should have known this was gonna go badly, Team Rocket messes everything up! They kidnap her, and throw her in a room full of other poor souls, all dressed as Pokemon characters, and we hear a poor girl being tortured in the distance. Pikachu is taken to an examination room, where it is decided she can “start right away” and then dragged into a fight club style room where she witnesses a poor Squirtle beat down by a Charmander. She’s then thrown into the ring, and after taking a few hits, she decides to channel all her Pikachu powers…and give this crowd the shock of their life…literally. Lightning somehow comes out of her cheeks and she takes out her oppressors while encouraging the other captives to join in and start a revolution.

Y’all, this film is weird. And I didn’t love it. But it has left me wondering… if were forced into a Pokemon fighting ring… could I possible manifest some cool Pokemon powers?

I guess we’ll never know.

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