One moment, Laia is sitting down for the start of the floor session.
The next moment, some kind of bizarre-looking monster is going at her with an enormous golden ring.
The moment after that, she's somewhere else.
It's 3000 Pokédollars, but she got more than that just from random thank-you presents for healing, so she probably can. She can optionally choose to pay extra (this comes with no special privileges).
She doesn't even know what charitable cause the extra money goes to so no. One full price ticket.
She will spend the afternoon looking to see if there's such a thing as a movie theater. Maybe there is and she could watch a second movie!
Yes! There's a movie theater in Pokéstar Studios showing new releases, designed as a sort of audience test, and another movie theater in town showing slightly-less-recent releases with a little more filtering for quality.
New releases at Pokéstar Studios!
Does she have preferences about genre? There are a couple different movies playing this afternoon.
She invented children's theater a couple of years ago and would be fascinated if they have it here! Failing that a romance.
They have children's theater! Today, they're playing Mystery Doors of the Magical Land.
In a faraway kingdom, Prince Tony, a child of about twelve, is the selfish, spoiled heir to the throne. (His outfit looks rather like someone tried to reconstruct the clothing of one of the counts at the convention, having seen it exactly once, with completely different materials.) One night, he sneaks out on his own to wander the castle grounds. He finds a mysterious white door, and decides to investigate it.
Upon walking through the door, he finds himself in a magical kingdom known as the Land of Enchantment. He encounters a mysterious woman and immediately insults her. This proves to be a mistake, as she reveals herself to be the queen of the magical kingdom, Bellelba, who (in context) is probably some kind of sorcerer. Bellelba threatens to kidnap him and force him to be her servant forever, never to return to his home kingdom, and sends out one of her Pokémon to guard the door. Tony seems to consider this objectionable primarily because he considers being a servant to be beneath him, and complains that he doesn't have servants to fight this battle for him.
Tony attempts to battle her with his Pokémon, one of the ice-cream-like species Laia met earlier. Over the course of the battle, he and his Pokémon visibly start to lose energy. She taunts him, telling him that every moment he breathes the air in this kingdom, it saps his strength and willpower; terrified, he and his ice cream cone find enough resolve to rally and knock her Pokémon unconscious, before his own Pokémon collapses, exhausted. He declares that he will now return home, only to realize that during the battle, the door disappeared entirely. The queen mocks him for thinking that defeating her Pokémon would allow him to escape and traps him in a magical cage, leaving him to be guarded by a stuffed toy.
Tony attempts to escape, but finds that the only exit to the cage, a sturdy black door, refuses to budge. The toy lets slip that the door is in some unclear metaphysical sense a Pokémon, and can be battled just like a Pokémon can. Tony begins to battle the door, but realizes quickly that defeating it won't be sufficient — instead, he needs to scare the door-Pokémon into fleeing. Partway through the battle, the toy makes a cryptic comment, and Tony recognizes it as his long-lost brother, Kevin, who disappeared years ago and left Tony as the only heir. Tony and his ice cream cone manage to scare away the door. Tony wavers over what to do, but decides to invite Kevin to flee with him, even knowing that it means Kevin will take his place as heir. Kevin agrees, and the two of them flee.
As they flee, Bellelba returns and confronts them. She mocks them and challenges Tony to another battle; this time, she sends out several door-Pokémon in turn. With Kevin's help, Tony figures out that he needs to knock every door-Pokemon unconscious except the door that brought him here. There is an extended action sequence, during which it is revealed that Bellelba has spent the past century luring travelers into the magical kingdom (which seems like it might be more like a personal demiplane?) in order to drain their life-energy and achieve immortality. She compares herself to Tony's father, the king, and Tony has an epiphany that kings ought to rule on behalf of their subjects, not merely for personal gain. Ultimately, Tony manages to defeat every door but the white one; in the process, Bellelba also disappears, having put her own life-energy into the doors to animate them. The magical kingdom begins to come apart, and Tony and Kevin flee back home through the door.
An epilogue reveals that Kevin ultimately abdicated in favor of Tony, who ended up being a good ruler thanks to what he had learned in the magical kingdom.
...that's a pretty confusing lens on monarchy but she's impressed with the child actor playing Tony!
.......okay now she wants to watch a romance.