John Loeffler (sometimes credited as John Leffler or Joe Loeffler) is a son… Read Full Bio ↴John Loeffler (sometimes credited as John Leffler or Joe Loeffler) is a songwriter and record producer, and is the CEO of Rave Music, a company which produces commercial soundtracks. He is best known for having produced much of the music for the American dub of the Pokémon anime series.

The Birth of Mewtwo
John Loeffler Lyrics

We have lyrics for these tracks by John Loeffler:

Everything Changes Your heart's beating around the clock Time tickin' away, it…
Misty's Song Out here in the quiet of the night, Beneath the stars…
Pokemon I wanna be the very best Like no one ever was To…
Pokémon Theme I wanna be the very best Like no one ever was To…

Pokemon Theme Song I wanna be the very best Like no one ever was To…
The Time Has Come I close my eyes And I can see The day we met Just…
Together Forever You've been such a good friend I've known you since I…

You Can Do It In the morning when you wake up Open your eyes to…

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

@pikachucetthesecond4296

I finally figured out what I can compare the US soundtrack to

No, not John Williams (his soundtracks don’t sound like MIDI music)

No, not Ghibli (it’s incredibly insulting to the heart and soul poured into Ghibli movies when you put any aspect of a 4Kids dub on the same level as masterpieces like Princess Mononoke and Howl’s Moving Castle)

It SERIOUSLY makes me think of the soundtracks they play in Scooby-Doo movies. I’m not kidding that’s seriously what I hear, ESPECIALLY with the out of place pop music (I dunno maybe you’re fine with it but I wouldn’t call a Scooby Doo soundtrack emotional)

I can say the same about the rest of the dub too... but I complain about the dub enough already so I won’t talk about it here

All comments from YouTube:

@RickfordBrowneJr

9y↑307

I dreamed of hearing the world's greatest soundtrack...

And i succeeded!

@megabattlezero5351

7y↑2

~~in low key~~ DunDunDunnnnn!!!!

@Kruegerisgod

6y↑4

LMAOOOO. Good one

@NeidalRuekk

5y↑5

Spared no expense

@danielbandicoot378

Palabras del Dr Fuji, padre de Amber.

@shedjr_

1y↑21

"We dreamed of creating the world's strongest Pokémon...
...and we succeeded..."
Words cannot describe how much I love this film and it's soundtrack.

@SleeepyFish

7y↑170

"Those voices"
"They're outside"
"where I must be."

@Molonara

5y↑14

“They’re outside...”
Mewtwo’s first line in Detective Pikachu (2019)

@chalmerznorman1149

5y↑2

@@Molonara amazing!

@nickp2271

3y↑2

👀

@coltonpiper6156

@@Molonara I just wish they got the original VA for mewtwo in Detective Pikachu

@CegeRoles

8y↑201

"We dreamed of creating the world's strongest Pokemon...and we succeeded."

@kingmarsh4657

7y↑10

CegeRoles And then came Arceus and took that title.

@BrunitoRammstein96

7y↑7

King Marsh Arceus already existed if we think that he is the God who created everything ( like bills from dbs already existed before his first appearence )

@alanhu4214

4y↑2

Almost

@antexrulerofdarkness5517

4y↑25

"Is that my purpose? Am I just an experiment? A laboratory specimen?! This cannot be...MY DESTINY!!!"

-Mewtwo

@Blue_Lugia

4y↑67

If they reused this for the remake, the movie would had been 1000 times more nostalgic.

@Darceus2000

4y↑7

Blue_Lugia
I literally just watched the remake for the first time, and that’s exactly why I’m here!😂😅
The music definitely didn’t compare to this (not that I expected it to).

@Blue_Lugia

@@losttumbs7545 That's what I meant.

@coltonpiper6156

3y↑1

Also they should have gotten Mewtwo’s OG voice actor

@wakkaseta8351

41w

@@coltonpiper6156 Pretty sure he retired a long time ago.

@Crabcityrocker92

8y↑167

1:27 "These humans... they care nothing for me..."

You really begin to feel the pain and frustration in him of how he was just created for experimentation. Music like this really knows how to capture how a character is feeling.

@Vigriff

6y↑24

This cannot be my destiny!

@HyperSole

5y↑16

Have yall seen the origin of Mewtwo (the 10 minutes they cut before mewtwo awakens) it hits you in the gut.

@oliverallen2565

Jon Crabb agreed!

@wakkaseta8351

The American music for the first few movies was tailor made for the scenes it was used in.

@Mac14329

2y↑4

He might be the most developed character in the series.

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@jeffreylayton3411

8y↑60

the flute and trumpet solos in the beginning pluck heart strings everytime

@oliverallen2565

Jeffrey Layton yes they do

@norwegiantechnolover

5y↑8

That sounds like an oboe playing in the beginning

@heldnebula6197

8y↑64

u can just feel mewtwo's emotions in this song.

@oliverallen2565

5y↑1

HeLDNeBULA I agree

@leviw.242

4y↑9

“Doctor, look at this! Its brainwaves, theyre surging...”

@JerryHarway

8y↑85

Japanese story with American score and you'd have the perfect Pokemon movie

@NoctisBezariusx

8y↑7

Indeed

@oliverallen2565

5y↑2

JerryHarway either score

@h5skb4ru41

5y↑1

Don't mix two good sheep to get a even better sheep, you'll get the worst sheep instead

@coreylucas5346

JerryHarway Yup

@sligen

4y↑5

Back when 4kids actually did good with their dubs.

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@Shft-T4b

6y↑17

One of the few movies I've seen to this day where every part of the original soundtrack was memorable

@Ronnie06spartan

4y↑21

I had this CD. This movie really had a great score. This melody for Mewtwo is so memorable. I love the serious/dark/sad vibes it gives. It really set the tone for his character and the movie

@HowardMenken91

8y↑28

One of the best film animation of all times...

@ShannonLikesALotOfStuff

5y↑27

"Life is wonderful... but why..."

@danielbandicoot378

1y↑1

Amber Two.

@Varodunham92

6y↑37

3:03 is the perfect representation of the most powerful Pokémon ever.

@oliverallen2565

Álvaro agreed!

@gerragotheallidile

Of what was the most powerful Pokemon.

@somehuman7482

@@gerragotheallidile Mewtwo is the Bret Hart of Pokemon, the best there was, is and will ever be! He still is the most powerful Pokemon ever created, even Mew, Arceus and Deoxys are no match for this monster

@LordBeerusGodofDestruction

4y↑2

Jinn the fat guy who loves to fart pushing it there with Arceus, he’s a whole different level of Pokémon, that’s a deity Pokémon. It’s like when Frieza said he was the strongest in the universe.....then there’s Beerus to put him in check.

@somehuman7482

4y↑1

@@LordBeerusGodofDestruction Well, if Lord Beerus Himself is here to correct me, who am I to say otherwise?

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@oliverallen2565

5y↑13

The nostalgia! One of my all time favorite movie as a kid.

@diamondproductions9367

4y↑8

Mewtwo's leitmotiv is freakin' awesome and powerfull

@Othillde

11w↑2

26 years later, still lives rent free in my head. Beautiful.

@hiattgrey9161

6y↑27

It starts out as a mystery, then it gets smoother, and then finally turns darker.

@oliverallen2565

Hiatt Grey right

@o.portista

1y↑3

My all-time favorite childhood film. Legendary soundtracks, The Cast, the storyline, and the characters. Till this day, this movie and soundtrack brings me joy and a bit of tears to my eyes. Glad to have it on cassete. Love these soundtrcaks so much man. Can't forget it at all, after all these years.

@MetaMetalks

9y↑88

Jeez. Just switching between the two versions it's so obvious why this is the better soundtrack. Atmospheric as hell. Even the creators have stated the American soundtrack carries the emotion better.

@ASarneck108

8y↑6

+Metalks Really. Where did you hear that?

@MetaMetalks

8y↑15

I used to know, but for the life of me I cannot find it again. It was stated during some interview. I just have no idea where...

@Kuudere-Kun

6y↑8

Darn, I love being able to document those kinds of statements from Japanese creators to make elitists Weebs look like fools.

@mikegrand4581

5y↑7

Both soundtracks are solid, but yeah, this one's definitely better produced. No cut-and-pasting to be seen, so everything fits the movie perfectly and there's a cohesive theme throughout. Of course then 4kids ruined it by recycling almost all of this stuff as filler music for the TV episodes but oh well.

edit: also forcing in Brother My Brother when they could've done a beautiful instrumental instead (like the original) was completely jarring and the one time this soundtrack falls flat, hard

@oliverallen2565

Metalks uh they never said that at all.

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@lennykiller8

7y↑23

Happy Birthday Mewtwo

@LOK_Dev

5y↑7

0:30
Mewtwo: Why... why, are you helping me...? Perhaps you are unique... a unique human... one of a kind.

@ColbertAwesome

8y↑27

the 20th anniversary of pokemon is here and this is my favorite pokemon movie

@ColbertAwesome

1y↑1

0:57

@ColbertAwesome

1:05

@dragongodaaron6460

5y↑7

Life, the great and the great mystery. Since the beginning, humans and pokemon alike have searched for it's meaning. Many strange and wondrous legends, evolved from the pursuit of life's mysterious. But, non is stranger then this tale, of the most powerful Pokemon of all.

@nightspawnson-of-luna4936

47w↑2

this theme really captures the frankenstein's monster paralells

@Asgard72

6y↑9

Those voices...!? Their outside...! Where I must be!

@saveme4340

3y↑3

As you go through this playlist, I encourage you to not scroll to the very bottom of each comments section. It could really hamper one's mood listening to most of these nice tracks.

@fed3903

2y↑2

Chills running down my body.

@exciteablevideos

6y↑4

I will remember you...always.

@KiryuGodzilla1

9y↑12

0:38 This score also plays in Pokémon Advanced Challenge episode 49 A Scare to Remember, where Ash hugs Pikachu after Pikachu got his memory back and Pikachu remembers Ash and Ash thought that he lost him.

@aliciagarcia1255

11y↑8

The music of my people

@lightorchestrator

34w↑1

3:03 Best part, Imagining the power of Mewtwo making a herd of Tauros look pathetic.

@JorgeMorenoCGArtist

4y↑2

The miracle of LIFE

@AchromaticChameleon

4y↑11

The new 3D remake just doesnt hit the same way and a large reason for that is the music. You cant beat this original soundtrack

@edpa_gaming2913

2y↑2

So you embrace the power of better clones? you prefer the original? you're just like the rest pathetic XD

JK: I agree with you the original is so much better than the remake

@AchromaticChameleon

2y↑1

@@edpa_gaming2913 HA! Clever😁

@edpa_gaming2913

I do I like to think like the characters from those movies like what I would do in his position and then I make my own theories and master plans

I know its not real but its just very entertaining for me to think like it could be real

and yes my plan if I was mewtwo would be worse than what he does in the movie
got a whole written out plan

@feragosmyxixarashtra7948

@@edpa_gaming2913 Spell out your Evil Masterplan.

@edpa_gaming2913

@@feragosmyxixarashtra7948 well with the current state of the pokemon movies
if I was mewtwo I would first try to learn and clone the mystical pokemon Hoopa in his unbound form and would stay at my island
then I let Hoopa make portals to all big pokemon location so I can clone every legendary pokemon and so can take over the world

also I would try the method to increase there stats the way they did to the 3 starters we see in the mirror fight, so I would be superior to the originals

and so checkmate I rule the world with a massive army of masterly trained pokemon

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@hm-jz7vs

3y↑1

Life.... the great miracle, and great mystery...

@schoonfam08

8y↑18

"Where am I?!"

@combativeThinker

7y↑8

"Who am I?"

@cocolover1237

5y↑3

"What am I?"

@cameronpearce5943

39w

Such a terrific score <3

@Petitgoutdefariboles69

32w↑1

Les autres films Pokémon n'arrivent pas à la hauteur de celui-ci.

@TheBreadman904

8y↑8

wait, was Donphan in this movie? He's a second gen Pokemon and this movie is still first gen (though Marill and Snubble were introduced in Pikachu's Vacation so it makes sense why they're on the cover of the soundtrack)

@NotTheWheel

8y↑9

Don't forget about Togepi, Pokemon quite ingeniously always shows off the "Next Generation".. While it may seem a bit awkward try and think back to the kid growing up when Pokemon launched, There's 150 and more to see.. Gotta catch em all.. Each new episode or experience in the game made players WANT to find all they could find. So Donphan being on the cover is rightfully so because literally that 3 minute intro of a pokemon we've never seen before was hype as hell and alludes to even more exciting adventures into the unknown for Ash as well as us kids watching it that there's more to come. Ya dig?

@somehuman7482

Generation 2 Pokemon were in the womb of the creators' minds, and the Johto Pokemon we seen beforehand were part of the ultrasound

@stillbuyvhs

He appears in the opening battle.

@mrbigchrisy94

3y↑4

0:28 “Life. The great miracle and the great… mystery.”

“Since the beginning, humans and Pokémon alike have searched for its meaning. Many strange and wondrous legends have evolved from the pursuits Life’s mysteries.”

“But none more stranger than this tale, of the most powerful Pokémon of all…”

@krtlkid

3y↑1

Arceus:Am I a joke?

@kerrysmith1493

5y↑2

Happy 20th Anniversary

@theedgyboy4644

38w↑1

This is the most villanous theme of my childhood

@antexrulerofdarkness5517

4y↑3

"Who am I?"

"What am I?"

"Where am I?"

"I am ready...to be!"

@NeidalRuekk

5y↑2

Works both for Mewtwo's birth and the compilation where the clones long to go and live their own lives

@Gameboy98

23w

I hope that one Day we get A full Mewtwo story as a Side quest in a mainstream Pokemon Game

@computergenie1

9y↑13

does anyone know what the name of the track is from mewtwo returns when giovanni looks at a bunch of satellite images at the very beginning?

@Kuudere-Kun

6y↑3

I'm pretty most Music in that was just recycled from this movie.

@clutchhh

15w↑1

This movie was a very rare example of the American BGM being far better than the Japanese one.

@LunArtsDesign

5y↑2

0:40 GREAT PIECE HERE

@yu-qj1dg

One of greatest anime movie of all time

@4kidsduartmediaservicesent617

This second part of the music at 0:28 - 1:26, it reminds me of The Land Before Time franchises that I've watched.

@jct9099

1y↑1

Mewtwo: So this is my power. I'm in control now...... but why am I here?

@cnam73

5y↑2

man, pokemon used to be so good. i miss the old pokemon :(

@thanellen8757

21w↑1

Of course you survived! At the cost of my daughter’s life.

Mewtwo origins

@mielthesquid6536

39w↑1

I have no idea why but I much prefer the american OST than the japanese one for Pokemon. Usually I would always prefer the japense soundtrack, for instance in Dragonball I cannot stand the US soundtrack but something is just so good about the Pokemon one, feels like more memorable.

@fed3903

This movie and yu-gi-oh the pyramid of light both had better soundtracks for the American version.

@limitbreaker909

2y↑1

Who am I? Where am I? Who wanted me to be created? Who asked for me to be created? I despised everything connected to my creation! And so, this is neither attack, nor declaration of war. You are the ones who created me. And I will strike back... against you!

@nebzshady9389

This score is actually really good! I just prefer Shinji Miyazaki's original score.

@nilesclifford9704

40w

Pokemon the first movie 2000 on soundtrack is coming to Spotify in september 2023.

@pikachucetthesecond4296

@oliverallen2565

3y↑1

Naw

@Mac14329

13w

You made that stupid Scooby-Doo comparison three freakin’ times already. Just SHUT UP.

@pikachucetthesecond4296

This soundtrack is...some parts are good, but it’s mostly bad and there’s parts of this that sound a bit too happy for Mewtwo’s birth where he lost his friends and then found out he was made as a weapon and a proof of concept. I wish they just made an accurate translation of the Japanese film with the same OST

@oliverallen2565

4y↑2

Weird

@TheUltimateNatural

I think that part is supposed to be hopeful.

@peepsg

3y↑1

@@oliverallen2565 he sure is

@pikachucetthesecond4296

@@peepsg What you want your film to sound like Scooby Doo?

@peepsg

@@pikachucetthesecond4296 well I think dub did great job for 4Kids and it fine to be similar to Scooby Doo

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@who8mahbacon

11y↑5

thats a lot of johns.

@kerrysmith2782

2y↑1

Dread it, run from it, but soon enough destiny arrives all the same, and now it's here-Thanos 3:01

@LordCaedus-bl7wi

I know the original anime music was used on both the Japanese and American dub. But was this score made for the Japanese movie first or just the American dub?

@yu-qj1dg

1y↑1

Where...am I ?

@DD-sb2ju

4y↑1

These, these is not the same, was everything before just a dream? Why.....

@kiritsuna

6y↑3

This does sound like the movie, I've already listened to the soundtrack and it didn't fit the movie at all, this on the other hand is how I remember it

@Matt-cn2nn

5y↑2

The "soundtrack" was just a bunch of songs recorded that were "inspired" by the movie. This is the actual score.

@diegodelgado2900

2y↑1

Mewtwo y Gyarados Rojo

@harvwehlage2857

Other then that sloth Sid left in your room Ronnie Anne why not talk about your favorite animals next time. I'd love to know what your favorite animal is. My favorite are lions! Roar!

@burgerboss1016

1:06

@occidendum6326

9y↑6

Maybe it's A Different The Mewtwo From Genecect And The Legend Awakend But I Still Think It Is The Same Mewtwo Becauae They Just Find Another Voice Actor

@Matt-cn2nn

7y↑2

DiamondBladeStorm Does that explain the obvious change in gender..?

@occidendum6326

7y↑1

K, that was one year ago. I have a theory about it... So, you see, there are said to be 3 Mewtwo in existence. 1 from this movie, 1 from the Genesect movie, and the 3rd being the one Red caught in Pokemon Origins. We have a total of 3 Mewtwo's which could lead to the fact that this is a different Mewtwo than before.

@Matt-cn2nn

7y↑2

DiamondBladeStorm Well, Origins is an alternate universe anyway.
That aside, yeah I'm pretty sure that these two Mewtwo's are seperate beings.
Still, the weirdness surrounding these contradictions makes me question if the movies are really canon to the anime.
That having been said, Mewtwo briefly appeared in the main animé in his armour, unrecognised by the Pokedex, making TFM see more likely to be canon than the Genesect movie.

@ShadowLightMewEndlessOceanMew

Colress created Genesect and the Mewtwo of the movie. He got his hands on the data and decided to create a Mewtwo that would have the mega stone in its DNA.

@NinjaChris77

The first Pokemon movie actually is considered to be canon to the anime, because it was originally planned to end the series with it, thats also why you see the very same Mewtwo shwoing up in one episode earlier, leading up to the movie!

Im not sure about all the other movies, especially, because many of them come with things that dont really line up with the show at all!