Review: Ryan Reynolds plays Pikachu in the new Pokémon movie. It’s way better than it sounds.
Justice Smith, right, with Pikachu in “Pokémon: Detective Pikachu.” By Kristen Page-Kirby Kristen Page-Kirby Express senior arts writer Email Bio Follow Express Senior Arts Writer May 7 at 4:37 PM Rating:
For the uninitiated, Pokémon are mythical creatures of varying types that each have special abilities. Working with human trainers, they battle one another for supremacy by using their powers to attack opponents. The phenomenon started in the 1990s with video games, evolving into a cartoon series, a card game and eventually the ever-present cultural juggernaut it is today.
After the death of his father in a mysterious accident, Tim heads to Ryme City to set his dad’s affairs in order, only to discover an amnesiac Pokémon lurking in his father’s office: It’s the yellow, rodent-like critter known as Pikachu. Though Pokémon can normally only articulate variations of their own names — e.g., pika pika, delivered here by the original voice of the cartoon Pikachu, Ikue Otani — this particular specimen can talk.
The screenplay, however, isn’t terribly innovative — you’ll see some twists coming — but Smith makes for a compelling straight man to Reynolds’s caffeine-obsessed Pikachu, who’s thrilled to find a human who can understand him. Reynolds, known for the “Deadpool” movies, jettisons that character’s foul mouth in this PG-rated outing, yet he brings a similar, blunt-spoken charm to this sweet-at-the-center role.
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