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Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)
Overwhelming disappointment
Pokémon Detective Pikachu is the best video game movie ever. Sadly for all of us, that's an amazingly low bar to jump.
Ryan Reynolds' performance is surprisingly good (not amazing, but more than I expected), the high production value shows all the time. The CGI is good at places. But that's about it.
The premise is interesting but the plot and script are horrible, full of plot-holes and extremely awkward dialogue. The main actors are average at best and I'm giving them extra points because sincerely they couldn't do much better with the terrible script the writers gave them.
The tone of the movie is constantly shifting, from kids movie to detective pseudo-noir to action flick to comedy... it really doesn't know what it wants to be.
To sum it up all in one line, the move isn't *bad*, it's just all over the place. I think 10 minutes more of runtime and a tighter edition could improve the quality a lot.
At the end of the day and despite my hard critic I'm happy this movie exist. Not because it's good (if you didn't notice so far, it's not) but because I sincerely believe the next ones will be better. I have high hopes the writers will decode what went wrong and will give us a better movie from the sequel onwards. But most importantly, I'm excited to see Hollywood making more gaming movies, this time taking note of what worked and what not and acting accordingly.
Cars 3 (2017)
Better than reviews say it is, worse than I expected to be
First of all, let me get this out of my system: I've seen many 1-2 stars reviews out there. While I understand why those people are upset I think 1/10 is way too low. The movie isn't inherently bad, it's not a disastrous mess of burning oil like some reviewers make it to look. But it's not great either.
The movie is lighthearted, easy to chew and fun for the most part. I wouldn't expect more from a cartoons movie. But this is Pixar so of course I expected more.
I've got three major problems with this movie. First, the new characters are extremely flat and one-dimensional. The "new" younger cars are just jerks (all of them), there's no reason for them to behave like they behave but because they're the "antagonists" of the movie we need to feel mad at them I guess. So they're flat-out pretentious with zero background. The new sidekick of Lightning is also a completely basic character with an extremely contrived background story.
Second, the third act feels forced and unbelievably illogical (and yes I know I'm talking about a movie with talking cars). I can't really explain this point without spoiling anything but let's say the end isn't loyal to the movie's protagonist and the end is wrapped up in a very forced manner.
Third, the Mary Sue of the movie. I really don't care about overpowered female characters, I didn't even care about Rey in Star Wars. I don't care! But this new female sidekick of Lightning McQueen is just too Mary Sue to be true. Again I don't want to give away anything but I'm tired of that "you got something that you didn't know and now you're a hero", that's BS.
So, it's a fun flick but many levels below the old good Pixar.