{"id":1545,"date":"2019-07-02T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2019-06-02T10:21:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T16:21:47","slug":"movie-detective-pikachu-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/02\/movie-detective-pikachu-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Detective Pikachu (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/e\/e5\/Pok%C3%A9mon_Detective_Pikachu_teaser_poster.jpg\/220px-Pok%C3%A9mon_Detective_Pikachu_teaser_poster.jpg\" alt=\"Detective Pikachu\" width=\"220\" height=\"326\">Detective Pikachu<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2019<br \/>\nRating: PG<br \/>\nLength: 104 minutes \/ 1.73 hours<\/p>\n<p>The transition of nostalgia into live action can be a tricky business. Plenty of franchises have faltered in this aspect, so it was interesting to see Pok\u00e9mon approach it from a side angle. Instead of adapting the core series of games or anime to a live-action adaptation, they instead used a spinoff game as the framework to create this movie. Despite my initial skepticism, I can honestly say that <em>Detective Pikachu<\/em>&nbsp;(2019) works much better than any video game franchise adaptation before it. It\u2019s not entirely perfect, but it came a lot closer than any of its predecessors.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, the \u201crealistic\u201d Pok\u00e9mon were enthralling\u2014if not wholly terrifying (I\u2019m looking at you, Ludicolo)\u2014to see in a real space interacting with humans. I already had a bit of a visceral reaction to seeing realistic fur, skin, and feathers on Pok\u00e9mon when I played&nbsp;<em>Pokken Tournament DX. <\/em>At least they certainly seemed to be at home in this world that the filmmakers created. Nothing seemed out of place, which was a testament to the team who managed to remain reasonably faithful to the source material of the franchise. I was almost frustrated with how fast some scenes zipped past, as I wanted to pause and see if I could identify all the Easter eggs and references.<\/p>\n<p>While this certainly satiated my nostalgia, some moments reminded me, \u201cOh, yeah . . . this is a movie for kids.\u201d Sure, Ryan Reynolds gets a few lines in that the parents in the audience will laugh at, but there was this weird in-between space where I could identify with the main character even if the plot was simplified so the youngsters could understand it. I know they\u2019re going to try and appeal to the broadest demographic possible, which just so happens to have a wide age range due to the fact that Pok\u00e9mon is still a relatively strong franchise today as it was over 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>A surprisingly faithful franchise adaptation into live action, I give&nbsp;<em>Detective Pikachu<\/em> 3.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\">&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\">&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\">&nbsp;1\/2<\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detective Pikachu Year: 2019 Rating: PG Length: 104 minutes \/ 1.73 hours The transition of nostalgia into live action can be a tricky business. Plenty of franchises have faltered in this aspect, so it was interesting to see Pok\u00e9mon approach it from a side angle. Instead of adapting the core series of games or anime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2],"tags":[1576,1866,89,13,1867,1034,8],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-5-stars","category-movie","tag-1576","tag-detective-pikachu","tag-live-action","tag-movie","tag-pokemon","tag-realistic","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1552,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}