The only redeeming quality of this movie is the fun and interesting design of the Pokemon, there is nothing else. The story is absolute rubbish, the writing is diabolical. Everything is incredibly predictable and cliche. There is no intelligence in the entire thing. It is saturated with political and social justice propaganda. Black hero taking over a white character? Check. White girl falls in love with black hero? Check. Every scientist is a woman and/or a person of colour? Check. They even throw in global warming "jokes". I am so tired of these corporate nonsense movies. Don't believe the 10/10's, the vast majority are from farms in China.

I give it a 6 just for Ryan Renolds an for pokemons which look very nice. But, overall the movie is very stupid. It is sad they had such a great background and they could't produce a cool movie.

It's very rare that I ever watch kid's movies any more. I couldn't even tell you what the last one I saw before this was. But 'Pokémon Detective Pikachu' just really interested me for some reason. I'm not even much of a 'Pokémon' fan (I watched it briefly as a kid, but that was about it). I think it was the casting choice of Ryan Reynolds as 'Pikachu' that took my fancy. A really enlightened choice. He has the comedic skills to make anything funny, and ultimately that is the strongest thing this movie has going for it.

I also loved the concept of the story being based around a mystery. I'm a sucker for mysteries in films. Unfortunately the one they chose for this movie didn't really work for me. It just never hooked me in. I didn't absolutely need to know the answer, and that is always the key to a mystery element working in a story.

The other thing that impressed me was how good the animation was. The 'Pokémon' looked absolutely fantastic. I think this is a great movie in the sense that kids are going to have a great time with it, but also the adults that take them along are going to enjoy it more than they might other children's movies. A worthy effort.