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Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
Directed by
Rob Letterman
PG
2019
1h 45m
Family
,
Fantasy
,
and more
6.5
68%
82%
6.9
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In a world where people collect Pokémon to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent talking Pikachu who seeks to be a detective.
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Cast of Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
Ryan Reynolds
Detective Pikachu (voice)
Justice Smith
Tim Goodman
Kathryn Newton
Lucy Stevens
Bill Nighy
Howard Clifford
Ken Watanabe
Lieutenant Hide Yoshida
Chris Geere
Roger Clifford
Suki Waterhouse
Ms. Norman
Josette Simon
Grams
Alejandro De Mesa
Bartender
Rita Ora
Dr. Ann Laurent
Karan Soni
Jack
Max Fincham
Young Tim Goodman
Simone Ashley
Girlfriend
Edward Davis
Boyfriend
Diplo
DJ
Omar Chaparro
Sebastian
Ben Fox
Lead Cop
Kadiff Kirwan
Mayor
Ryoma Takeuchi
Male Pokémon Trainer
Rina Hoshino
Mewtwo (voice)
Pokémon: Detective Pikachu Ratings & Reviews
FilmWeek (LAist)
Justin Chang
I found this weirdly diverting... It's a counterintuitive fit for this character, and I kind of liked that about it.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
But when the earth begins to shake and villains finally show their true colors things get far less interesting.
ChrisStuckmann.com
Chris Stuckmann
The human characters are flat and boring...but Ryan Reynolds as Pikachu saved the entire film, and there's a lot of him...about as good as a live-action Pokémon film could be.
Chesapeake Family Magazine
Roxana Hadadi
The central mystery of Detective Pikachu is lackluster-and sends a slightly problematic message about people with disabilities-but the production design is an impressive achievement.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
For a while, the first live-action Pokemon movie's achievements are enough.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
Smith interacts believably with the CGI characters and even manages a genuine character arc as we see him become less isolated and more vulnerable and authentic.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
Oil and water. Toothpaste and orange juice. Good decisions and Florida. Some things just don't go together, and you can add Ryan Reynolds' voice and Pikachu to that list.
NPR
Vincent Acovino
There's something admirable about a film that isn't afraid to have some fun with a property so established - and beloved - by its core audience.
Vox
Emily St. James
I don't know a dang thing about Pokémon, and I really had a great time with Detective Pikachu... I found plenty to enjoy here, and I was never once confounded by what was happening onscreen.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
Detective Pikachu isn't that bad, and the movie arrives helpfully armed with a couple decades worth of equity and goodwill; still, once you've gotten your fill of its wisecracking namesake, even grading on a curve, it isn't good.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The film's plot is either too much or too little.
Refinery29
Anne Cohen
Once you get past that initial disappointment, however, Detective Pikachu is pretty fun.
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
This is 1 hour and 44 minutes of Pikachu short-circuiting your brain.
Slate
Sam Adams
In a world packed full of franchise-extending would-be blockbusters, there's something strangely appealing about its patchiness.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
Overall the movie is passably entertaining, though only the youngest viewers will feel it in their jellies.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
Pokémon obsessives will want to check it out, but the movie is mostly an uninspired slog, not committed enough to work as a demented genre picture, and not funny enough to work as a goofy, lighthearted comedy.
Vanity Fair
Richard Lawson
For an outsider, the whole experience of Detective Pikachu was kind of refreshing, I must say.
New York Post
Johnny Oleksinski
Who would have thought that one of the most enjoyable buddy-cop movies of 2019 would star a Pokémon?
Washington Post
Kristen Page-Kirby
It seems that when you take a little yellow creature with a heart of gold and turn him into a soft-boiled detective, something special is in the cards.
The Atlantic
David Sims
It shouldn't work. It shouldn't even make sense! Somehow, it does.
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