Saturday 20 June 2020

Pokemon: Detective Pikachu

Some mysteries can only be solved by yellow lightning bunnies.

Upon hearing of his father's death Tim (Justice Smith) runs into the titular detective (voiced by Ryan Reynolds) and winds up helping him solve more than one mystery, all of which are thankfully explained quite well by the end.

It's so cute!

As a world inhabited by Pokemon I was most impressed with the CG invested here. Everything is fantastic, especially the action scenes and anything with Pikachu. It must have taken ages to render all that yellow fur! The plot itself is decent too and the leads carry the acting side nicely.

The movie also cleverly skirts the whole, enslaving animals to fight each other issue by openly going there right at the start then switching scene to Ryme city where humans and pokemon live in harmony (though I suspect they eat each other on occasion).

All up, this is a surprisingly good film and one I can recommend fully. 4 mimes out of 5. Would I watch it again? You'd better believe it.

4 comments:

  1. I thought it was fine, but I wouldn't watch it again. My pokemon-obsessed daughter loved it, but hasn't ever asked me to rent it again either.

    The "Pitch Metting" is fun -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooisvdBHuP8

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    1. Oooh, thanks Magson - I'll go watch that when I get the chance! :)

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  2. I mean, they had me at Ryan Reynolds.

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