 Yesterday, I saw Detective Pikachu the movie, here's my digital ticket printed off, doesn't really matter, it's already been used, but I want to talk about it and don't consider this a review, I don't consider myself to be a film critic, in fact, I happen to like the Super Mario movie, so that should let you know that my taste probably doesn't line up with yours and might disqualify this, that's why I'm saying this is a review, this is my takes and my impressions, I'm gonna give you guys a brief little synopsis opinion and then I'm gonna warn at some point that moving forward there's going to be spoilers, major plot spoilers and all that jazz at some point, but I will warn before I get into it, if you just want to know my general thoughts here they are, Detective Pikachu is a very good movie, it definitely lived up to all of my hype and my hype for it was just to be the best video game movie I've ever watched and that is indeed what it is, the very beginning of the movie is utterly fantastic, the very end of the movie is utterly fantastic, there's a small part in the middle where it drags just a little bit, but then again it's entertaining throughout and I absolutely loved all the Pokemon designs and the comedy is great, there's a lot of very, let me stress this, very adult jokes in there that are gonna fly right over kids heads, so it's perfectly fine to take your children to and I actually took my five-year-old son and my eight-year-old daughter to it and they absolutely loved the movie, they were glued to it the whole time, even though they didn't quite understand everything, especially my son because it is like a serious movie, it takes itself seriously, it doesn't try to be like a Disney Channel style, you know try to make a lot of sense to kids like it very much owned that it is trying to tell a serious story and it did it very well and I got to say the acting was superb, the casting was great, the story got a little predictable at certain parts for my taste, but then again I'm an adult and this is intended for all audiences, so for children maybe they needed some of this stuff to be a bit more obvious for them, but honestly it's an amazing movie in its own right, now like is it like Avengers Endgame great, is it you know greatest movie of all time kind of thing, no, no it's not, but it's a very good movie and that is a big accomplishment for a movie based on a video game, now warning right now spoilers ahead, I am basically gonna spoil the entire movie because I don't really care, I'm warning you, I am warning you now, from here on out major spoilers because I need to talk about this, now you might say but Nate don't spoil this I haven't seen it yet, here's the deal, you know what I hate about seeing movies like Avengers Endgame or Detective Pikachu or basically any movie like the weekend it comes out, you can't talk about it with anyone, everyone's always like you can't talk about this don't spoil it don't, too bad I warned you it's happening, Detective Pikachu is fantastic, Ronald Reynolds is in the movie as Ryan Reynolds, biggest spoiler I could tell you right now, it actually happens at the end of the movie, before we get into that and what do you mean, I thought Ryan Reynolds was Detective Pikachu, let me just get into this a little bit here, the movie really starts off great, you get into the mind of the main character and he is very much a loner right, he's a loner, he's always been a loner, he's basically an accountant and it doesn't have a Pokemon, he lives in the world of Pokemon where basically everybody has a partner Pokemon of some type and he just doesn't, he's never really latched on to a single Pokemon, at the very beginning of the movie he's out with a friend of his who's about to leave town and he's like hey you know this Cubone is perfect for you because he's also lonely and then he tries to catch a Cubone and the Cubone totally doesn't stay in the Pokeball and then ends up attacking him, so it's really great but there's a lot of undertones here about the seriousness of it about how much of a loner this kid is, you know it appears that his mother passed away, you find this out later in the movie that his mother passed away at a very young age, he's been living with his grandma, his dad kind of is a detective in Rime, not kind of he is a detective in Rime City but the son basically blamed the dad and moved in with his grandma and hasn't really seen much of him since and what really gets everything going is that he ends up having to go to Rime City because his dad was killed, was murdered or what have you and this happened because of Mewtwo, they were doing experiments on Mewtwo out of the laboratory and lo and behold Mewtwo breaks out and at the time you think Mewtwo caused a big accident and killed his father and his partner Pokemon who happens to be you know Detective Pikachu and obviously Detective Pikachu, the Pikachu itself survives and they end up meeting up at his dad's apartment and it's just really interesting from here on out watching the development of him and Pikachu's relationship together, yeah there's tons of comedy, I mean there's jokes about cocaine, no they don't actually say the word cocaine obviously for children but very clear reference to cocaine, I mean there's a drug, the R drug being used in it so there's even drug use in the show, it's very, it's comedic but it's a very serious undertone to everything and what this stuff does and there's like illegal Pokemon battles happening where some Pokemon are taking the drug and it's just a really sombering film when you think about some of the dark undertones in it but they do a really great job of layering those dark undertones with comedic moments, obviously a lot of it coming from Ryan Reynolds' performance as Detective Pikachu but just in general there's a lot of comedy, Psyduck has some funny moments, some of those you've probably seen in the trailers and stuff but there's some funny moments from Psyduck, again I'm not going to spoil everything but there's just a lot of really touching moments in there and honestly the ending, I saw the ending coming, I didn't see the ending coming exactly as it did because at some point basically the guy who created Rhyme City, again I'm not going to spoil a little bit of everything but the guy who created Rhyme City decided that he's basically dying and he figured out the best way to live forever or to like have a cure and become a better version of yourself is to basically become a Pokemon and to do that is to take over the mind of crazed Pokemon and transfer your mind into their body and he wanted to obviously take over Mewtwo who's the most powerful Pokemon of all time or at least is the most powerful Pokemon in this world they created and it's so obviously he wanted to take over the most powerful one and he needed to take over that one because Mewtwo has the power to basically merge the people's minds and stuff together once the Pokemon become crazed on the R-drug and it's very interesting because the big twist at the end is basically that the boy's dad has been with him the whole time, the boy's dad was actually merged by Mewtwo into Pikachu and that is actually why he is able to like actually hear Pikachu talking, Pikachu the whole time has no idea that you know the person talking inside Pikachu has no idea that it's actually his dad and so when they get so when at the end of the movie when obviously the good guys when and the bodies get separated you find out that that entire Ryan Reynolds voice was because Ryan Reynolds was put inside of the body and Ryan Reynolds himself is the kid's dad Pikachu doesn't actually talk at that point Pikachu is back to just being pika pika Pikachu so I saw the moment coming I didn't realize it was going to be exactly Ryan Reynolds I don't know why it just it didn't click with me until I saw Ryan Reynolds on screen then I'm like oh right like Pikachu can't actually talk it was the father the entire time and he just didn't realize it because his memory was gone and it's just such a touching thing and honestly the whole like the world building was fantastic they did a great job making this world believable Pokemon felt like a natural part of the world you saw so I mean there were so many different Pokemon I don't think I could count them all I mean I don't even know the names of all of them because I haven't been like the most hardcore Pokemon fan over the years but my gosh like seeing Charizard in action in an actual battle you know seeing Ibisores and Bulbasaur and Squirtles and I just it really flashback to my childhood and I kind of wanted to live in this world I wanted to be in the world of Pokemon and I think what was so cool about this world is it made it kind of believable as an example if you don't like some of the Pokemon designs it's okay because the people in the show itself don't like some of the Pokemon designs and think they're ugly and like disgusting as an example there's one point where Lickitung licks one of the characters I don't know like who's Lickitung is this like this is disgusting like it's a like yeah they even think that stuff is gross like to be honest Pokemon in real life would be pretty disgusting they wouldn't be all cutesy like you see in Pokemon Go they would be pretty gross and this world treats it that way and it makes all the Pokemon fit they designed the world to fit with their vision of what Pokemon would be like in real life and it doesn't really matter at that point if you like the designs of the Pokemon or not because they are perfectly designed for the world they are in and it's a world I hope to see more from I hope this isn't the end of Detective Pikachu I hope there's going to be Detective Pikachu 2 and 3 and 4 or whatever they decided to do with the franchise moving forward I hope maybe they could spin off of this and start doing more Pokemon live action movies I don't know but I really loved how this show wasn't trying this movie basically wasn't trying to be a kid show it was trying to be a good movie and I think that is what I loved most about Detective Pikachu is it wasn't trying to be like hey we're making this for kids no we're making this for everyone who's a Pokemon fan we're making this for just people in general forget it being a Pokemon movie we just want people to come to the show and enjoy and I think that's what a lot of you guys are going to end up doing if you go to it or if you haven't or if you have gone to it you know what what your thoughts might be and now if you have seen the movie go ahead go down to the comments let me know what you think about it as I said you know I wanted beginning spoilers there's going to be lots of spoilers down in the comments as well because we talked about spoilers in this and there's so much more feel free to talk about whatever you want if you are someone who is into spoilers this will be like your place to 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