Jamie Sanborn

Pokémon Detective Pikachu is a movie starring Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, and Kathryn Newton. In a world where people collect Pokémon to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent talking Pikachu who seeks to be a detective Genre: Sci-Fi scores: 123210 Votes duration: 1H, 44 Min average ratings: 7 / 10 star OK, so I actually enjoyed Detective Pikachu. In fact, I enjoyed it quite a bit as a Pokemon fan. And yes, this is probably the best video game adaptation to date because it's made by people who actually care and respect the source material. I thought quite a few of the jokes were landing but some definitely did fall flat and the movie is kind of predictable, but going into this I expected it to suck. I had no idea why everyone was saying that this movie was going to break the video game movie curse. Now I can definitely see why, but at the same time, being the best video game adaptation doesn't mean "good. It's pretty decent, but it isn't good. The acting for the human characters was very stiff, the soundtrack was pretty flat and some of the comedy was just straight up juvenile. That being said, casting Ryan Reynolds as Detective Pikachu was a great choice and it's actually surprising how much he carries this film. I've heard quite a few people complain about the Pokemon designs, and yeah I can definitely see why. Some of them are straight up bad, but the majority of them were either passable or legitimately good and sometimes actually cute like in the case of Pikachu and Jigglypuff. So yeah, Detective Pikachu was an enjoyable film, definitely surpassed my expectations, but there were a few too many things wrong with it for it to cross the line of being truly great. I'd probably recommend this movie to Pokemon fans but casual moviegoers can probably get some sort of enjoyment out of it.