Review: The breezily bizarre Pokémon: Detective Pikachu will make you want to pet Ryan Reynolds’s fur

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The breezily bizarre Pokémon: Detective Pikachu will make you want to pet Ryan Reynolds’s fur GlobeArts

Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith and Bill NighyNintendo’s first, and until this week, last foray into the use of its characters in live-action movies was 1993′s downright bizarre, a film so legendarily bad that it scared the Japanese game giant away from the live-action movie business for more than a quarter century. So you would expect that after taking a 26-year breather, Nintendo would do something more straightforward with its return to the big screen. Five minutes ofis unrelentingly weird.

In some scenes later in the movie, Pikachu seems uncannily like a child’s plush toy that’s been dragged through the dirt a few too many times.

Justice Smith, left, as Tim Goodman, Detective Pikachu voiced by Ryan Reynolds, and Kathryn Newton as Lucy Stevens.Part of this is because Smith and Reynolds offer textured and grounded performances that show an obvious chemistry with each other during the admittedly broad character and plot beats they share. It’s a testament to how well they play off of each other that when their onscreen relationship gets convoluted by events near the end of the story the entire movie still sort of works.

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