Pokemon Detective Pikachu (Blu-ray)

Rob Letterman’s 2019 film, “Pokémon: Detective Pikachu,” tells the story of Tim Goodman (Justice Smith), a disillusioned Pokémon trainer and an insurance agent who travels to Ryme City following the death of his estranged father, Harry. After meeting Harry’s old boss, Detective Hideo Yoshida (Ken Watanabe), Tim goes to his father’s apartment to clear it out, encountering memories of his youth. In the midst of his packing, a Pikachu (Ryan Reynolds) appears that Tim can mysteriously understand even though people normally only hear Pokémon saying their names (Ikue Ōtani, the voice of Pikachu in the video games and animated series, reprises her role for this). Pikachu claims that he was Harry’s partner and needs to solve the case they were working to figure out how Harry died. Reluctantly, Tim agrees, especially when they discover that something called “R” is making Pokémon particularly aggressive. They work with Lucy Stevens (Kathryn Newton), a junior reporter, who shows them evidence pointing back to Clifford Industries and its heads, Howard and Roger Clifford (Chris Geere and Bill Nighy). They being to uncover the nefarious goings on at Clifford Industries. Along the way, they meet Mewtwo (Rina Hoshino and Kotaro Watanabe) and see the wonders of the Pokémon world, with Tim rediscovering his love of Pokémon. All is not well, however, as Clifford Industries is up to far more than genetic experimentation to enhance Pokémon’s abilities. The movie is a lot of fun and captures both the nostalgia of the now-26-year-old franchise while telling a fun original story. The setting of Ryme City evokes other urban noir films. Reynolds, Smith, and Nighy are great and the visual effects make the Pokémon look as realistic as possible, with real-life analogues such as fur, skin, scales, and bone looking particularly great. This is great for both long-time fans and now their children, too. Bonus features on this Blu-ray include “Detective Mode,” which allows the viewer to watch the film with hidden clues, pop-up trivia, and more; an alternate opening; “My Pokémon Adventure”; “Creating the World of Detective Pikachu” featurettes; “Mr. Mime’s Audio Commentary”; “Ryan Reynolds – Outside the Actor’s Studio”; and a music video. The packaging also says that this Blu-ray includes a special Pokémon trading card, but it was not included with the copy I bought.

I enjoyed the movie with my nephew. Hope there’s more or a sequel. It was a nice change up.

Arrived in good condition and sealed, liked the movie as well.

This was a great movie for low-key Pokemon enthusiasts. My kids have all enjoyed the cards over the years and it was a fun throwback to memories of casually enjoying Pokemon myself years ago. Great mix of slapstick comedy and sarcasm, the whole family enjoyed it, and thankfully so because it's a regular request from our preschooler.

👍I highly recommend this movie. 🫶It’s super cute. Definitely funny. I’m not 🤔much of a cartoon person, but you know 😅I have to fold with this one The packaging is 🥹in perfect condition. The disk ☺️is in perfect condition.🤗 Arrived with no issues. Can’t wait to watch it again.🥰

Good deal.

Great movie

This is a great movie, I have watched it quite a few times. Sometimes to remove movies from streaming so I wanted to always be able to watch it if I wanted.

英語学習用に。 別に映像美を追究するわけでもなく、学習用なのでDVDの２枚セットで特に支障なし。 日本版の名探偵ピカチュウDVDは、英語音声は入ってるけど英語字幕が無かったので、ユーズドのUS版を購入しました。 US版の英語字幕は、聴覚障がい者の方用の字幕で登場人物のセリフだけでなく、音の説明、｢イビキ｣、｢むせび泣く｣、｢雷鳴｣、なども入っているので、それが意外と勉強になります。 たとえば小鳥の鳴き声って、日本語だとチュンチュンだけど、英語だとこう表現するんだ！みたいな。 そういうのって、受験英語やTOEICの問題にも出てこないし。 何よりフワフワピカチュウがかわいいので、ピカチュウのセリフを全暗記するくらい観ようと思います。 家に英語しゃべるピカチュウいたらなあ。

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Bon film à regarder en famille

Impulse buy but I haven't regretted watching it. Overall this is a good movie for young people (as Ryan Reynolds doesn't swear like he usually does for his adult-centric film roles). I think you'd have to have a fairly good knowledge of Pokemon beforehand as this film doesn't explain what they are or why they exist. As a newcomer who hasn't played the games or watch the cartoons, and after watching this film, I'm still not sure what their function is or why people have them. I don't think they are portrayed as pets but something more intrinsic or essential. I've seen the Golden Compass movie and the people in that world have animals that accompany them as deamons, and a person who does not have a deamon is seen as some kind of unnatural freak. So here the main character (Tim Goodman) is looked upon as unfathomable and weird because he does not have a pokemon by choice. Other than this bizarrely unaddressed issue, the story is entertaining and almost matches "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" in its similarity with the 'Who dunnit' mystery plot. I bought the Special Edition and the bonus disc has a few behind-the-scenes documentaries but nothing indepth about the film-making process really.

Detective Pikachu was a very niche game but interesting. This movie tho was hilarious and great. It also trys to tie into the animated movies too which is a nice bonus. I'm also glad they choose who they did for Pikachus voice over a grizzled one that they used in the game. Tho a meowth cameo that talks would've been hilarious.