they pay billions for a free game so probably
Why did it fail both critically and commercially?
Jackson Phillips
Gavin Williams
UGC Cine Cite les Halles for me. 1 showing for Pikachu, 2 for Nous Resterons Ensemble, and the rest as previously mentioned. And my showing (around 8pm, on a Friday night) was half full.
When the new french "dramedy" has more showings than the new blockbuster in store, something's not right.
Cameron Morgan
critical
Haven't watched the movie and dont plan to, but if it's anything like the rape of the games the last two gens, it likely went too hard on pandering to nostalgia. Jokes and refrences in the movie are probably the same gen 1 callbacks you'd see on any fanwork that people are either tired of seeing or dont give a shit about because it's not their nostalgia. There is probably an additional layer of unnecessary Apokelypse level edginess that turns many away from fully enjoying the movie. Also the movie is probably less about the overall charm and amazement of HOLY SHIT LIVE ACTION POKEMON and more so the Mad Magazine level surrealism of Ryan Reynolds being a pikachu.
It doesnt help at all that the models look like absolute shit.
>Commercial
It retardedly decided to come out 2 weeks after the single biggest movie of the decade and probably the biggest movie of the century thus far. Any movie coming out within a month of Endgame is dooming itself to failure.
Wyatt Wood
>thicc
Cringe.