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It was a weak kids film carried entirely by the novelty of seeing Pokemon in live-action. With the novelty gone, the sequel would probably be a turbo-bomba.
It's really weird to me that they made a movie out of Detective Pikachu, which i thought was the dumbest fucking idea, it actually ended up being decent and made a lot of money and there's like zero hype for a sequel
That's ok. They should continue this series by combining random Pokémon with increasingly unlikely professions.
Lawyer Meowth
Baker Shuckle
Chiropractor Toxicroak
Lawyer Meowth
Baker Shuckle
Chiropractor Toxicroak
I really needed to see more chonk Pokémon in that CG fur. Still think it's gonna happen in the future.
Only really reason to make a Detective Pikachu movie is to go cheap and keep things some what on a small scale and make it just a detective movie with a Pokémon skin
and yet for some reason they didn't do that. There's barely any investigation or mystery clue solving plot to it at all and they sunk a bunch of money on big CGI Pokemon mewtwo battles anyway.
Hot take but I felt like it did the game's story a disservice by making in a whole "fate of the world" thing (among other complaints). Much more excited for the next game.
I mean, Detetive Pikachu made more money, it just cost more too.
I presume he means cause it was soon after Endgame. I...don't think that had that much impact on Pikachu, other movies have both made more money in the same weekend as that initial weekend. Pikachu basically did what it was gonna do. Outside of opening weekend on truly massive movies I don't think competition is that impactful.
That was dark as fuck. Imagine going to see some cartoony monsters fight and now you are questioning what is human and humanity
I think it was one of those space-brained ideas that they couldn't just do a classic mainline game/anime style story and had to make something more "Hollywood" (read: talking cartoon and bland human sidekick).
I'm honestly stunned legendary hasn't made another announcement of a new Pokemon movie. You'd think they'd make one based off RBY or something by now? Hell, I'm wanting a PMD movie. Give me a crazy idea that plays out like tokusatsu and I'll be in love
I'd say the same thing about BotW2 and Metroid Prime 4, though. Nintendo announced a lot of stuff WAY ahead of when they should've. I'm sure it's still being worked on, but add COVID issues that didn't help last year.
Considering how it ends there isn't really much room for a direct sequel
It would be more interesting just to tell different stories in that same world.
unless they found some dumb way to merge detective dad and pikachu together again, which isn't beyond the realm of possibility.
It would be more interesting just to tell different stories in that same world.
A sequel would be really forced from a narrative perspective. Still not sure if it was better or worse than Sonic.
I thought the film was overall bad.
but the worst part is that they made it a "save the world" story which was completely unnecessary. Should've kept it in much smaller scale then that.
but the worst part is that they made it a "save the world" story which was completely unnecessary. Should've kept it in much smaller scale then that.
It's so weird that WB/Legendary would give up on adapting an IP as massive as Pokemon after one meh movie. I guess they could instead be doing a different take on the IP instead of a Detective Pikachu sequel, but we haven't really heard much going on if that is the case.
Surprising considering it did OK at the box office and studios generally love milking IP to death.
