Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea is a 2006 Japanese animated fantasy film. It is the ninth film of the Pokémon anime series and the fourth and final film of Pokémon the Series: Ruby and Sapphire. Directed by Kunihiko Yuyama and written by Hideki Sonoda, the film follows Ash Ketchum, his Pokémon partner Pikachu, and their friends May, Max and Brock as they help a Pokémon Ranger named Jack Walker deliver the Mythical Pokémon Manaphy to an undersea palace called Samiya while evading mercenaries led by Phantom the Pirate.
It was released on July 16, 2006, in Japan, to mixed reviews from critics and aired on Cartoon Network in North America on March 23, 2007. It is also the first Pokémon movie to be not be dubbed in English by 4Kids Entertainment, but instead by The Pokemon Company International. The events of the film take place during Pokémon: Battle Frontier.
Plot
An egg containing the Mythical Pokémon Manaphy is found floating in the sea by mercenary Phantom the Pirate, but it is subsequently stolen from him by Jack "Jackie" Walker, a Pokémon Ranger disguised as one of Phantom's crew members. Jackie escapes Phantom's ship and joins the Marina Group, a traveling circus family that specializes in Water-type Pokémon, to deliver the Manaphy egg to Samiya, an undersea palace built by the People of the Water, whom the Marina Group are descendants of.