Detective Pikachu Review

Not sure what I'm doing. I was kinda over this blog, but I always get dragged back don't I. I don't particularly feel like posting, but in this case, why not, who cares what I do with my insignificant existence....

Saw it... First I'll talk about my relationship to pokemon. I was there watching the show every day, collecting the cards I could afford little by little, playing the game during english class on my gameboy color, all that shit. I was so crafty... but yeah made tons of progress during class. Don't even know if I ever even finished my pokemon game before moving on... I think I did beat it... can't remember.

As a die hard I guess, someone who went all in and actually got into the pokemon stuff, the movie's very hollow and obviously a parody film not intending to be taken seriously as a pokemon film.

It's that simple really. This movie's all tounge in cheek stuff. Funny ha ha kids film with pokemon's name slapped on it. Nothing more nothing less and doesn't aspire to be.

The biggest question I had after seeing it, was simply why... why make this movie? What's it going to mean to pokemon if it doesn't really care to "be" about pokemon. It's almost a fan film they decided to put on the big screen and say that's a wrap...

Seriously that's how I came away from it, oh that was a very expensive pokemon fan film, damn pretty neat stuff.

People calling it who framed roger rabbit... more like space Jam if you want to get real. It's not about creating a believable reality within the film, it's about making gags and jokes about the source material. It would have been actually damn great if it waaaaas done like roger rabbit. But that was never the intention.

There's movies like roger rabbit, casper, mortal kombat, then there are the street fighters, batman and robin, and Scooby F'n Doo. I will never understand how they could do scooby doo super serious and dark in the cartoon movies, but fail to take it seriously in the live action version to this day!

Am I fanboying out enough for you?

Anyway, it's better than it has a right to be. It does a decent job being a good little story about a boy solving the mystery of his lost father, but it doesn't explore pokemon the way it could have while more or less making fun of it. This is a Transformers level type of thing. It doesn't care about the reason why pokemon was what it was, it's not concerned with that at all really, but it's ok otherwise... No references to beloved characters besides pikachu, I just don't get that... It's as if detective pikachu was all pokemon was, uh... I mean, that's like making a mario paint movie and saying yep, that's mario... nailed it...

I don't know and I just don't ever want to watch it ever again. It's a fan film. I'm done with it, moving on...

A 3 out of 5...

shrugs...