Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy, Ken Watanabe, Chris Geere, Suki Waterhouse, Josette Simon, Alejandro De Mesa, Rita Ora, Karan Soni | Written by Dan Hernandez, Benji Samit, Rob Letterman, Derek Connolly | Directed by Rob Letterman
Pokémon: Detective Pikachu is directed by Rob Letterman and stars Justice Smith as Tim Goodman with the addition of the voice of Ryan Reynolds as the titular Pokémon character Pikachu, who collide together after Tim is brought back into Ryme City after his Police Office father has been killed in a suspicious car accident, resulting in a partnership to get to the bottom of this mystery case. Letterman’s film is sadly eye gouging traumatic for an hour and forty minutes that feels more like torture than family entertainment. The resulting film has to be the most generic property going at the moment. The voice of Reynolds does very little and the film has no heart,...
Pokémon: Detective Pikachu is directed by Rob Letterman and stars Justice Smith as Tim Goodman with the addition of the voice of Ryan Reynolds as the titular Pokémon character Pikachu, who collide together after Tim is brought back into Ryme City after his Police Office father has been killed in a suspicious car accident, resulting in a partnership to get to the bottom of this mystery case. Letterman’s film is sadly eye gouging traumatic for an hour and forty minutes that feels more like torture than family entertainment. The resulting film has to be the most generic property going at the moment. The voice of Reynolds does very little and the film has no heart,...
- 5/18/2019
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy, Ken Watanabe, Chris Geere, Suki Waterhouse, Josette Simon, Alejandro De Mesa, Rita Ora, Karan Soni | Written by Dan Hernandez, Benji Samit, Rob Letterman, Derek Connolly | Directed by Rob Letterman
I’ve been a Pokemon fan since the original Red and Blue games came out. I still play the games today two decades later. I grew up with the animated series and watched it religiously as a kid. Pokemon has been incredibly successful as a franchise but the one thing that alluded it was a successful movie. For those about to bring up the animated movies for the television series, they are enjoyable but there’s no denying that they are for fans only. However, Detective Pikachu does something which is really refreshing in that it doesn’t alienate adults who don’t have that attachment to Pokemon and is without a doubt,...
I’ve been a Pokemon fan since the original Red and Blue games came out. I still play the games today two decades later. I grew up with the animated series and watched it religiously as a kid. Pokemon has been incredibly successful as a franchise but the one thing that alluded it was a successful movie. For those about to bring up the animated movies for the television series, they are enjoyable but there’s no denying that they are for fans only. However, Detective Pikachu does something which is really refreshing in that it doesn’t alienate adults who don’t have that attachment to Pokemon and is without a doubt,...
- 5/7/2019
- by Xenia Grounds
- Nerdly
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