Pokemon Detective Pikachu

While it was sort of cool to see a world filled with humans and pokemon living together it turns out that's not enough to make for an interesting full length movie. To make this entertaining you need to do more than slap a B-movie plot filled with every cliche in the book into this world. Bad writing, ham acting, and a rather boring story just don't make Detective Pikachu worth sitting through.

And it turns out Ryan Reynolds' shtick might be getting a bit old. I started to tire of his predictably, if pg-sanitized, sarcasm as it rolled out of the mouth of everyone's favourite pokemon. Sure the idea of Reynolds' voice coming out of Pikachu is a funny one.. for about 5 minutes. Then it's tired. Will Deadpool 3 start to feel like a drag once we all get tired of the same old same old? Perhaps its time for Reynolds to reinvent himself before he becomes Will Farrell. He's kinda just playing the same character now in everything and this Pikachu is just safe for work version of Deadpool. Nothing stays funny forever.

So unless one is just really excited about seeing pokemon stories set in a "real" world. Detective Pikachu should be passed over. Let's hope this doesn't start a string of sequels.

Pokemon Detective Pikachu
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy, Ken Watanabe
Director: Rob Letterman
Writers: Dan Hernandez, Benji Samit, Rob Letterman, Derek Connolly