I just realized that Pikachu and Charizard cowering in fear when that Gyarados evolved from Magikarp is indeed a reference to the intimidate ability.

Let me bring attention to the fact they started with a shot of bird pokemon flying over the town- y'know, like how the games tend to start.

I still feel like the original artist doesn't get enough recognition. He started doing real life pokemon oh deviantart and then contacted by game freak and nintendo to do the lead design for the movie. Absolutely amazing!

I love that this movie wasn't just pure nostalgia bait, like every pokemon was just from gen 1. It was truly a love letter to all pokemon fans, regardless of where you started at.

A non-Pokémon fan talks about how great Pokémon is for 20 minutes, this guy is Arceus' gift to humanity.

Also giving mewtwo two voice actors, male and female bc legendarilys have no gender.

"Dark type Greninja gets hit with psychic type attack...must have protean..."

"I'm not at all an expert"

The first best thing about Detective Pikachu is that Ryan Reynolds played Pikachu without cursing every five minutes

Seriously the level of fan service here is insane! The fact that they made a movie that actually BROKE the video game movie curse is just the cherry on top of the Pecha-Berry flavored sundae.

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Sounds like a pretty great deal to me! X-D

15:58 "I'm sure you have your toxic members..."

Yeah, we call those poison types.

A neat little nostalgia trip is that Jigglypuff in the bar which is a reference to the reoccurring Jigglypuff in the classic pokemon anime which used a marker as a microphone and when it got mad that everyone fell asleep when it was singing It'd puff up and then proceed to draw on everyone's faces as revenge even in the movie the mic marker has the exact same green cap

Honestly my favourite part of the movie was how the Magikarp evolved after being kicked, which was a reference to the first season of the anime in which Team Rocket James did the same thing with his Magikarp.

He claims he isn’t knowledgeable on Pokémon, yet he pointed out that Psyduck’s Psychic move worked against Greninja, a dark type who is supposed to be immune. And in the next breath rationalizes it with Greninja’s unique special ability Protean, which turns it into the same type of the attack it’s using (which in this case is Water Shuriken) thus allowing Confusion to land.

CinemaWins, you are hustling us sir!

Also, LOVE the shoutout to cute little Bulba! #adorable

I also appreciated how they still used Jigglypuff's original song

Another win at 5:49: In the Gen VI games, Pokémon have a sweet spot where they like to be petted in Pokémon-Amie. Pikachu's sweet spot is the chin. Nice reference there.

"I'm not the biggest pokemon fan but..."
10 min later....
"Dark type Greninja gets hit with psychic type attack...must have protean..."
Ok guy sure lol 😂😂😂

I liked the movie, but I don't want a Detective Pikachu 2. What I want is another Pokemon movie with this tech.

I don’t want a second “detective pikachu”- but I would really love another movie in the world, maybe with Tim finding his own Pokémon?

Tbh we don’t need a Detective Pikachu 2, but we DO need another Pokémon movie.