Pokémon: Detective Pikachu

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Pokémon:  Detective Pikachu – 4 out of 5

My familiarity with Pokémon is limited, to say the least.  I tried to watch the cartoon years ago but didn’t really get into it.  I wasn’t interested in the card game but gave the Gameboy games a shot (they didn’t grab me).  Pokémon GO, however, sunk its hooks into me and didn’t let go for a good year.  I’m already one to partake in a good leisurely stroll but this game gave me even more motivation to get out and be active.  I don’t really hate nor have anything against the property, the thing is I just never got into it.  With that being said when the trailer came out for Pokémon:  Detective Pikachu I was completely sold.  It looked like a lot of fun and, after watching it recently, my initial reactions proved to be accurate.

Catch 'em all...make them battle for your amusement!!!

So, were they aiming to have Milo Yiannopoulos
in the film?

Tim Goodman (Justice Smith) hasn’t seen his detective father for a while and gets terrible news that he is missing and presumed dead in the large metropolis of Ryme City.  After he heads to the city and visits his father’s apartment, he discovers a mysterious vial of gas that is connected to a case he was working on.  In the apartment, he is surprised to find his father’s Pokémon; a Pikachu, but is more shocked to learn that he can understand it when it talks (voiced by Ryan Reynolds).  This discovery leads him to partner up with a hungry reporter named Lucy (Kathryn Newton) but they soon learn that the mysterious gas—one that elicits a violent and aggressive reaction when inhaled by Pokémon—is just the tip of the mysterious and the danger they are about to find themselves in.

If Pikachu is startled does it result in a lightning attack?  Just be careful
is all I'm saying.

While Detective Pikachu suffers from some minor drawbacks the overall product proved to be a lot of fun and really opens up the world of pop culture for more live-action Pokémon films.  Right off the bat, the world-building that went into this project was pretty phenomenal.  The idea of a reality where there are little creatures that one can capture and have as a pet/friend was pretty damn believable in the movie.  The story also does a great job at creating a dynamic world that has depth and rules to it and it does so with very little obvious exposition.  The tale is able to weave in how this world works seamlessly as it develops Tim and Detective Pikachu’s story.  You’re able to convey a lot from very little and the movie does it by showing you rather than telling you.

Reynolds is stupidly handsome as a man and totes adorbs as a

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life isn't fair.  And yes, I am aware that Pikachu isn't real
and Reynolds just did a voice to an animated creature.

My experience with Justice Smith pretty much begins and ends with Jurassic World:  Fallen

Kingdom.  While definitely not one of my favorite films in that franchise, I definitely enjoyed Smith in his role and found it cool to see that he was leading the charge in this one.  Smith does a tremendous job at balancing the film’s drama and comedy as he is the straight man to the Pikachu and is the one going through the lion’s share of the dramatic development. 

Justice Smith’s counterpart; Ryan Reynolds, was a bit hit-or-miss for me when it came to voicing Pikachu.  I like Reynolds a lot but there were definitely times where his (for lack of a better descriptive) Deadpool-esque humor felt very out-of-place and sorta dented my suspension of disbelief and pulled me out of my submersion of the film’s reality.  When Pikachu starts making Seinfeldreferences in a world where I’m going to gamble that there is no Seinfeldcounterpart there is definitely a disconnect.  I won’t argue that Reynolds is terrible or detracting as Pikachu because most of the time he is fun and likable in the role but there are definitely times where he didn’t work.

Bill Nighy is here to class some shit up!

The story works for a maiden voyage of live-action Pokémon movie.  The mystery wasn’t the most compelling to me and the payoff is a touch predictable but I don’t hold that against the overall product at all because it is still a fun ride.  However, there was one thing about the film that works above everything else and could have spelled doom for the feature if the production got it wrong:  the designs and bringing to life the Pokémon.

Hmmm.  Looks like a nice Pokémon.  I'm sure they are very friendly.

In this world does the phrase, "Somebody stepped
on a Psyduck" exist?

Having those cute little things as drawings or digital images in video games is one thing but to render them into realistic looking characters in a live-action film is a whole other ball of yarn.  Sure, if the background Pokémon didn’t work or looked slightly wonky the viewer could probably overlook it as long as entertainment needs were met in other departments of the film but if Pikachu above all others was a failure than this film would have sunk.  Thankfully, the design and computer effects used to bring these things to life are damn impressive.  All of them look like their cartoon counterparts but designed in a realistic-looking fashion and the effects that gave them personality was top shelf.  Not only were all of them adorable but they helped create believability to the world as they had that right balance of being slightly cartoonish but also legitimate enough in order to sell the reality of the world.

It's so cute!!!!  Why can't we have these in our world?  Our world sucks.

Pokémon:  Detective Pikachu may falter here and there with the story and with some of the jokes but, overall, I found it to be pretty fun.  It makes a great case for more live-action Pokémon films but, more importantly, it made me realize that I need my own Pokémon…but don’t tell that to my dog.

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