Pitch Meeting
Detective Pikachu
2019 • E36 May 12, 2019 5m
Pokemon has been a worldwide phenomenon since the nineties and the success of Pokemon Go in 2016 shot it back into the mainstream once more. It’s only natural then that a Pokemon movie soon went into development, cashing in on the Pokemon-mania. Detective Pikachu stars Ryan Reynolds as the titular Pokemon, and certainly raises some questions. Like why is the first part of the movie so depressing? What was the bad guy even trying to accomplish by putting everyone in their Pokemon? How did Tim get down that skyscraper so dang fast?