Pokémon Detective Pikachu Full (2019)

Pokémon Detective Pikachu As anyone who’s seen the trailers can attest, the central gag of Pokémon Detective Pikachu — if we may call it a gag — is that it’s a Pokémon movie with a neo-noir veneer: The skies are dark, the streets wet, the lights neon, and the cuddly, four-legged little Pikachu speaks not in adorable, nonsensical squeaks but in the snark-boiled voice of Ryan Reynolds, an actor who couldn’t sound sincere if his life depended on it. It’s a reasonably fun conceit, and to the film’s credit, the idea doesn’t get nearly as tedious as it might have. Unfortunately, that’s pretty much all Detective Pikachu’s got going for it. 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. You chuckle, you go “aww” a couple of times, and that’s it. How does a Pokémon even get Ryan Reynolds’s voice? Well, it has something to do w