Detective Pikachu

A little, but honestly I kinda see where he's coming from, Pokemon are physically superior to humans. If he had just announced his plan instead of springing it on everyone I'm sure some people would have even followed him willingly.

The big evil scheme was kinda weird but overall the shit was nice, couple hearty chuckles.

Every actor in this movie was terrible except Ryan Reynolds. Especially that blonde reporter intern girl, her entire character was such a waste of time

I'm surprised he didn't lock his old body in a tube as well.

Wasn't a bad plan, imagine if everything but you had powers, even the talents of man are useless when Machamp exists.

Probably one of the best vidya movies, but that's not saying a whole lot

i thought she was hot.

I don't know if the reporter's acting got better later in the movie, or if I just got used to how bad it was. Her introduction scene was awful.

she genuinely was cringe

The main character CANNOT act and the girl was fucking awful too.

Something Smith is the main black guy. I hope he never gets a role in anything again. He's a terrible fucking actor.

Which Pokemon was your favorite in the movie, Yea Forums?
Mine was Bulbasaur.

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It sucks that its gonna flop.

Is it better than the game? Because the game was a boring slog

Bulbasaur was the cutest. I liked Mr.Mime

Dude was old as shit and confined to a wheelchair and had been searching his whole life for a way for humans to evolve as quickly and efficiently as Pokemon, who put humans to shame in pretty much every department.

He figured out the only logical course of action for someone who was attempting to accomplish such a thing and had no time left to do it.

there just wasnt enough pokemon. the same ones kept popping up

Didn't it have a better opening weekend than Endgame or some shit?

Mewtwo and Gengar for me

I wish they had Slowpoke and Clefairy

Considering the technical feat of having huge teams of people make and manage each Pokemon's 3D model the amount we got was pretty good and they even spread the representation out through the gens better than one could have expected from what could have easily been an exclusively REMEMBER GENWUN?? movie. They do unfortunately make the mistake of making it too obvious there's such a limited pool in some scenes like the DItto battle and later crowd shots, they could have pulled some tricks to hide that aspect some.

>Consume product
>Start thread to discuss, i.e. ask questions, about said product

Don't learn the meaning of memes, just repeat the memes when you think they fit and move on to next meme

That's because limited rights, that's why all the Pokemon in the parade floats or on the screen were the ones you saw in the movie

surprised they didn't do more with the Gen 5 cat that was pretty much a cameo but we saw in the credits

With this, Nintendo confirmed that Ditto's transform can be used for really nefarious shit, right? And I'm really fucking glad that the script writers didn't overly shoehorn in a romance just for the sake of having one.

No. Also Box Office Mojo claims the movie only has $180M prior to this weekend and a budget of $150M. If the marketing budget assumption of 2x of production is true, Detective Pikachu is fucked.

Ditto
Obvious reasons

I enjoyed it because pokemon. But it had some of the worst writing and acting I've ever seen.

Pretty good film. I was pleasantly surprised, I expected it to be a lot worse. The plot was pretty predictable though

Saw it yesterday.
As a movie on it's own, I thought it was just ok. Typical action adventure for kids. Maybe could've used a longer runtime to develop some scenes better.
As a Pokemon adaptation it was top-notch, though. I was honestly impressed with how well the people behind it did their homework, with all the little nods to different things from the whole history of the franchise, like the apricot scene this guy mentioned . Meanwhile, the Sonic movie plot so far sounds like someone read the back of the box of the first game and that was their research done.

Video game honestly had a better villain plot, and it was just super, run of the mill team-rocket-tier type shit.

It made sense that he could come to the conclusion it was a good idea within his own logic, but was crazy enough to make it obvious the protagonist should be stopping them. Like most pokemon villain plans.

Are people just praising this because it's Pokemon? The acting from most of the human characters was fucking terrible, the plot was predictable, and the CGI was shit.

>tfw the villains master plan WAS Ash-greninja.

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Expected it to be a 7/10 turned out to be a 5.5/10 that would have been worse if it didn't have an interesting world and setting
I was expecting a lot more detective work, figuring things out, more of the neon city at night, but no, it was just a predictable kids movie.

As powerful as Mew-two is, that Ditto would have just been a better body I think.
But of course someone else would have to Mew-two to fuse them, as I don't think the headset could interface with a ditto properly.

I pinned that more on the character she was playing than her acting.

This movie isn't much different for me. Less color variety though.

yes and no, that was confirmed to be a genetically altered ditto, so we still don't have a canon limit to a standard Ditto's transformations.

The CGI was really good though.

Those Torterra are a bigger threat than Mew-two ever was.

everytime i see the trailer i cringe
how you guys pay to watch this?
oh i remember you are the same dumbasses buying the same fucking game over and over

>the script writers didn't overly shoehorn in a romance just for the sake of having one
Tim's interest in the reporter chick seemed pretty forced.

Mewtwo and Gengar would fuck them up though

How similar was the plot of the movie to the game? I only played the demo and found it pretty boring.

octillery appeared for 2 seconds but i liked him
also ditto is hot

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Agreed. Nothing spectacular, just good. I ended up liking the Pokémon far more than I thought it would. Making them look like they were made through practical effects was a stroke of genius. Half of them looked like Jim Henson creations and it was great.

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speaking of hot
Greninja holding what's-her-face's entire body with his tongue

Fucking Mr. Mime stole the show. I almost wish he wasn't so heavily used in the promo stuff, because he had the most fun scenes in the movie and it was a shame most of it got spoiled.

Have you ever fallen in love with a movie character?

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she was cuter as a psyduck

I just got back from seeing the movie myself. I was pleasantly surprised, and I really enjoyed the banter with Pikachu by Ryan Reynolds. Meanwhile the Sonic movie looks to be absolutely fucking awful but I have to go watch that train wreck.

i want to give her a rimjob

>the Sonic movie looks to be absolutely fucking awful but I have to go watch that train wreck.
They've clearly done something right considering I also feel compelled to watch it for the same reason.

Not really, but she is too cute.

Shots fired
archive.is/Bwziu
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What's really funny is that the Sonic movie will probably make MORE money than Detective Pikachu because it won't have to compete with Endgame. Really adds to that "survival through dumb luck" theme that always follows the Sonic franchise.

They really should have put Detective Pikachu a month after or when there was no competition.

>Psyduck's Confusion
>working on Greninja

You'd think that a movie about a fuzzy talking animal and another on capeshit would cater to very different audiences with little clashing.

she looks like a discount imogen poots

Protean, nig. Those Frogs keep spamming Neutral B like the Fist of the FotNS star

Torterra's Ability is Overgrow

No they just had Soak or Miracle Eye used on them while the other one was holding a ring target. I think that was a legitimate goof on their part. I don't think the director even knows abilities or items exist. The Pokémon company probably said fuck it.

You've gotta be REALLY thirsty to fall in love with THAT.

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I didn't like her acting or character but she's the only one involved that actually seems to know anything about Pokémon. Which I respect. She knows that fairy type exists at least. The black guy only played Gen 2 as a kid.

>Fist of the FotNS star
>Fist of the Fist of the North Star star

Literally just got out of the theater, and this is the first thread I see on Yea Forums, cool. So were some parts between Justice Smith and Ryan improv? It really felt like it at times.

Hardly. The soi audience would eat up both out of nostalgia and kids watch Marvel's movies all the time. Pokemon's audience skews a little younger but its 90% the same people watching both. I'm the first example.

Seriously, unless he had a plan to PERMANENTLY fuse his own mind with mewtwos his plan was shit from the start since he'd just have a super being that could undo his work the second he took the thing off.

And IF he did have a way to fuse his soul permanently like with the others, he should have done it.

>budget 150 millions
>barely make 170 millions
Yeah its a flop

I don't know man she was really cute. That and she seems to know at least a bit about Pokemon. Would marry/10

>loudred being used as a boombox
>drugs make them go full dubstep rave
they were good but Mr. Mime and Ditto were better imo

Not going to lie, I want a horror movie with the Ditto now.

detective FUCKachu

t. AVGN

>implying he couldn't commit suicide as Mewtwo once his plan was done

anyone who liked this shit was an absolute giga soiboi.

Ditto was a better villain than the furry king wannabe. Especially since Ditto appeared to be in charge of a lot of things like protecting the base and releasing the greninjas.

Went to go see it with my younger cousins today, it was alright. The bar was set really fucking low as both a video game movie and a Pokemon movie, so the fact that it was even watchable and even a little funny and cool at times was amazing.

It was ok. A little retarded in the end, and I'm curious on how they're gonna tackle the sequel after the ending of this one.

>oh no my mind glitched and i'm back as a Pikachu we need to find a cure

WHAT DID THE "R" ON THE VIALS STAND FOR.

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Then he'd have no pokemon body to exist in though, making his plan pyrric.

And he wouldn't have to commit suicide, he could easily seal Mewtwo back up since they had technology fully able of both taking him down or keeping him contained, but His plan also would be worthless for himself if he couldn't make it permanent for him.

niggeR

I was hoping it would tie into Team Rocket one way or the other.

Rage.

>that scene where Detective Pikachu goes on a racist rant about how Dark types only make up 11% of the population but commit the most crimes
Jesus, I didn't realize Raimi was working on this.

[Team] Rocket

>around 100 Pokemon were going to appear in Detective Pikachu, including Steelix, Beldum, Sawk, and Durant
>they were cut when the number was reduced to around sixty

Two of my favorite Pokemon, too, mother fuck. Were there ANY Steel-types in the film?

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Ok, explain something to me, user. Because I am fucking stupid. Was Detective Pikachu the dad in Pikachu's body, or was it the Pikachu who could communicate with Tim because because he had the dad inside him?

Those poor Torterra could barely even move. Just straightening up was a massive struggle for them, it's likely that they're completely unable to walk because of their massive weight.

It was the dad. Hence why the dad at the end talked about wanting coffee.

A sacrifice worth the risk

Very faithful, though pretty much all of the side cases were removed and some of the characters to focus on the Chemical R and Mewtwo cases.

BeRseRk Gene.

Sucks that fox-daughter didn't make it in.

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Movie says the former, but the latter does make more sense

>went to go see Detective Pikachu and John Wick 3 today
>was super excited for John Wick 3 and though Pikachu would be a fun side show
>ended up having a lot of fun with Detective Pikachu and being extremely disapointed with Wick 3
what the fuck

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I guess that makes the most sense. I would've liked it better if the Pikachu itself was a caffeine-fueled, smack-talking rodent underneath all the cute PIKA PIKAs.

Rigger

Stop bitching, the anime does that shit all the time. Remember how Kabutops was immune to Pikachu's electricity because it's a Rock-type? Swellow using Thunder as armor?

There was a baby a few seats from me who wouldn’t shut up the entire movie. I was getting mad and kept looking at the mom. Why even bring a baby to a movie theater

Ryan reynolds was basically the main reason to go and see it. past that, its pretty straighforward kid shit.

Plot is pretty generic, but I will give it applause for doing a good red herring job with the son and making you think its all going to be a false flag operation to drive pokemon angry so people will turn against pokemon due to the son's dislike of them.
That being said, if you didn't think the dad was evil you were blind, he was blindingly obviously shady,
Villain's plot would have made more sense if he just wanted to become a God pokemon rather than merge everyone together with their pokemon, because unless you were merged with a good one you got fucked.
Also surprised they turned Deadpoolchu back into a human at the end, because I was expecting them to be trying to turn this into a franchise.
I figured at the end DP and tim would go off to start trying to solve other mysteries together, probably with a female pokemon like a Evee to act as the pikachu's love interest.

I think everyone would have preferred that to be honest.

Sounds like Wick really is worse than the previous two. I was hyped about it, but my friends told me it wasn't worth the movie ticket.

Why would you go to a movie that a lady would bring her baby to in the first place?

I enjoyed it, and my girlfriend and I had fun noticing which pokemon they packed into the movie.
There were some little kids sitting nearby that kept saying "don't die pikachu" when Tim had to get him to Mewtwo in the forest, and I couldn't stop thinking about how they would be crying if they saw Ash turned to stone in Pokemon the first movie.

Dang, maybe in the sequel then if they started on ideas. I liked that some of my favorites were in it like Audino, Exploud, and Braviary at least.

Also this.

Guy was trying to make his own Dimensional merge

i wanna be that guy who had a loppuny or any other sexy pokemon with him when the mind melding started

its pokerus.

That line was actually why I assumed Pikachu was the one who liked coffee. The dad made it sound like he was surprised he wanted coffee to begin with.

the best and only good fight scene is the first one in the movie. Every other fight goes on for way too long, especially the finale
The secret assassin world building is way worse than the other two movies outside of again, something that happens very early on
a lot of plot beats are "remember this from the first movie? leitmotif my dude."
Whole movie feels very directionless and not much happens until the end
final plot twist is that it really isn't even close to being the end and it's not a trilogy
Would not recommend, wish I could unwatch it and retroactively the second one as well

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if your feeding your pet rat coffee your probably not a very bright cookie

No it's the berserk gene from gen 2, that's why it's made from Mewtwo

Most rats don't produce electricity though.

There was a lot of thots dressed as pikachus in my thester

If they make a sequel I hope they give us a better love interest with a better pokemon than a fucking psyduck.

I'm still confused why he just did use the ditto to copy mewtwo. Or at least give himself the ability to walk around and defend himself.

yah but if your dog could breath fire would you feed it chocolate?

shit you're right. such a weird and pointless item.

It was good until the ending. Fuck everything about the villain's stupid plan.

I think they tried to keep as many of the original pokemon as possible.

If it could breath fire and wanted chocolate, you're goddamned right i'd let it eat whatever the fuck it wanted.

>that spoiler

I hate that shit so much. I'm still gonna watch it, but now I'll probably wait for a rip or something.

statistically somebody turned into a loppuny and had a fun time

ooooooh

Gyarados was brief but one of the best parts of the movie, love how the Charizard went "Oh, fuck" when it evolved.

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the ending is literally a character that was shown to have died on screen earlier in the movie having survived, and him ranting to John about how much shit they're gonna fuck up now that they've been fucked over by everyone and have nothing left to lose
its so fucking bad

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I fucking loved JW 3 though

Imo it goes 3>1>2

The thing is he was counting on his bodyguard/waifu to protect him

It was Misty all over again.

Except misty was hotter and had some other better pokemon.

Do you guys enjoy being the only adults in a cinema filled with 12-year olds?

The visuals were really cool, but it felt pretty forced at times.

I went at 4:00pm and had a theater experience of mostly manchildren adults

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I can't give you that because I never found Misty hot but the reporter was a cutie. Shit Pokemon for sure though.

It felt a bit awkward being one of the three people to laugh at some of the jokes, like the birth canal one.

I was proud to be the only non-landwhale there and i'm chubby

I went at 130 on a weekday, so my experience is probably differnent, but it was literally nothing but millenials who grew up with pokemon.

I went to the theatre in the hipster area and half the crowd was people in their 20s.

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I said it before, and I'll say it again, I want a horror movie about a ditto stalking a kid and murdering his family.

Like a pokemon version of child's play.

we had a mix of kids and adults sadly I was right behind a bunch of 2 rows of kids. I had hush a kid who wouldn't stop reading the credits out loud in the beginning of the movie because the parents didn't do jackshit

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And you thought this warranted killing a Smash thread for this?

Oh fuck, why'd you have to remind me of that scene? My hopes is that when the inevitable doujin comes out, we see all the Greninja going to town on her at the same time. Just imagine all those tongues going everywhere...

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One of the few genuinely good vidya movies.

>yfw Cynthia was a reporter

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>wonder if theres a plush
>this is the best theyve got

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they have talking ones for the new movie that are cool, but isn't there a Reynolds talking plush available?

I thought she did a really good job being a cheesy reporter.

I was expecting a love interest for pikachu of some kind, like that flareon.

she's way better than the two reporters who can't do crap in the original game. I'm glad for this change

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The only thing that bugged me about Ditto was that he kept the Beady Eyes. In the Anime, only one Ditto kept the beady eyes, while the others were more accurate, because Duplica's ditto was retarded.

The movie drew a lot of parallels to the series, though - fatherless boy goes out, fails his first attempt at capture, befriends a pikachu but dude didn't want to be the partner vs the pikachu not wanting it instead, meets a fiesty girl with a ponytail, then much like Ash saving Pikachu in the early series, dude saves Pikachu after he takes a rock in the heart, even carries him close to his chest like Ash did.

I kinda like that Mewtwo was a mostly-good guy this time. But it was mentioned how he "broke out" of some place in the Kanto region 20 years ago...does that mean this shit is technically a Sequel to the first movie?

I went on Wednesday to a 7:30 PM with 8 other friends and we occupied an entire row and the theater was almost completely packed, which surprised me considering it was late midweek showing. It was actually pretty funny because there were a shitton of 20-30 somethings with their girlfriends in the room. It looked like the audience for a fucking RomCom and all my friends were asking were the hell were all the kids. Admittedly i live in Mexico so my experience was most likely a bit different to everyone else's

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miscegenation in a nintendo movie?

Humans can't date Pokemon.

I tried to go during the weekend in LA but every fucking theater for the weekend was sold out except for the shitty seats. Had to wait til monday matinee and it was about 50% full of old men which was weird.

ACTUALLY, Primal Groudon's Ability completely negates Water-type attacks.

the panel is from a comic that shows that after

Humans and Pokemon married according to Gen 4.

Would you Yea Forums?

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I would

Anyone else laugh when Clifford was going on about "evolving to their best potential" while eevee evolved into flareon?

We had a few kids to the left, one behind us who would whisper stupid shit on occasion (and whose father was EXTREMELY nasty about it - dude didn't go from 0 to 60, he was immediately at 60 from the get-go in how harsh he was. I kinda felt bad for the kid if that's his normal) and another set further back, but more than half the theatre was other neckbeards or 20-somethings who played GO and some other couples.

I can't even make a mocking retort at you though. "Do you enjoy being the only retard/faggot" doesn't work here since everyone's a retard/faggot. I'm glad you find joy spending your friday evening posting bait though.

Is it truly even a question if there's only one answer?

>Pokemon the Movie: MewTwo Strikes back came out 20 years ago

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Don't talk about my wife like she's illegal!

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Shit I still have my ticket and Pikachu card from that. Pour me some of that shit user, I feel old.

and the fact they're going the disney remake route....just why......

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They hint that people and Pokemon used to marry not just date so...

Check this.
youtu.be/WXwxEfh6-Fc?t=261

Not even hint, user. In the original JP text it flat out says they did. It just got censored in the US because muh fictional bestiality

>look it up
>its real
>its awful

youtube.com/watch?v=7kS2uEjK0_0
The pokemon look fine, but christ those humans.

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The whole Mr. Mime skit was pure comedy gold, I never expected Tim to actually threat him by pretending to pour gasoline all over him, that was so fucking out of place and I loved every second of it.

The giant Torterra also took me by surprise, I was all the time thinking "there's no way Psyduck is this OP" until they showed them standing up.

>supposed to have beady eyes
>can see normal human eyes behind the glasses
Oops.

They look exactly like what Pokemon anime-style humans would look like in 3D.

The fact that he dropped the match at the end was perfect black comedy.

what's your point

>But it was mentioned how he "broke out" of some place in the Kanto region 20 years ago...does that mean this shit is technically a Sequel to the first movie?

This was what caught my attention the most, that Mewtwo in the movie apparently was confirmed to be the very first Mewtwo created in Cinnabar Island, which I find really cool.

This is the same shit I said about Secret of Mana's 3d remake and people shit all over it. It was 100% faithful to the original right down to engine quirks. The models all looked like they should, turned into 3d. The only difference is, in the screenshot he posted, their eyes are wrong, much too thin and oblong instead of round/D-shaped like the original. Not that it matters for Brock, the walking racist stereotype

Apparently humans have figured out how not to be fucktarded with dealing with godlike pokemon too, since they have ways to take this one down compared to giovanni being completely impotent against it.

And it looks bad. Their eyes are too small. It's fixable but it looks off

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Going to be fair, going into the secret of mana remake I was majorly turned off by how they had voice acting but were too lazy to animate the mouths moving.

it's literally a no point remake. I watching the Pokemon I choose You "remake" and they reanimated the first 30 mins of ep 1 then everything becomes this weird retread AU and it's just.....jarring obvious cop-out ad. I stopped after 40 mins it was boring....

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Justice is just a bad actor, he doesn't have half the charisma Will has. Ryan as Pikachu was very good in my opinion, it just came natural to him.

I have no strong opinion on that one way or the other, a nice bonus but not well implemented due to lack of animated mouths, yes. They went the VN route for those interactions but saved effort using models instead of art.

Why was Tim the only one who could understand the Pikachu

>Inb4 he inhaled the gas

So did a fuck ton of other people and no one could understand the pikachu

The video game has the same plot

I loved her pokemon Go-esque outfit, though I wish she could have done more

It was because pikachu was actually his father, the gas was a red herring.

>old men
thats the pokemon go demographic

Because it's his Dad. Once he's free of Pikachu's body, all you hear out of PIkachu is "Pika pika!" shit at the end.

That's the reason why I always prefer to go to the early morning showings. My brother invited me two days ago so I took the chance and there was a family behind us who wouldn't shut up. That's also the reason why I prefer to watch movies at least after two or three weeks.

So are we to take it from the movie that pokemon battles are actually... EVIL?

Pokemon battles are outlawed in the city, and this is treated as a universally good thing, with battles depicted as basically being cage matches.

>it's literally a no point remake
Except 4kids cut out the first chunk of the movie. And a more faithful English dub would be pretty alright.

Justice hasn't been in all that much. Some shitty Nickelodeon show and a supporting actor in Jurassic Park World, and other things. Did he have to act to an imaginary person the whole time or a morph suit Ryan Reynolds, if its the former I'll cut him some slack.

Only outlawed in the city because the fucked up creator of it wanted to create harmony between humans and pokemon, and so when he fused them into one, they wouldn't be beat up messes.
One glaringly missing thing from the movie in either place: No PokeCenters that I saw or heard mentioned.

Maybe...

Free health care is Communism lefty.

What's that got to do with anything though? Just because it was his dad he could understand him?

That's always hit me as a bit weird. The games and anime hammer in that they're friends and benevolent creatures, yet it's completely normal to let them bite, slash, tear, and burn each other.

Only in that particular city. From what I gathered, Pokemon were considered equal to humans in that city, so pokemon battles were bad?

Pretty much. No other logic than that, and it's a fucking movie about magical animals that can conjure elements and technology that can trap them in tiny balls, nitpicking why he can hear his dad-trapped-in-a-pokemon-body is kind of retarded in the big picture

>latex gloves
You ain't gotta ask me twice

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>And a more faithful English dub would be pretty alright.
Fuck no, that'd be boring as shit.

It's not so bad if you think of it like Boxing/MMA. We have regulated fights between consenting humans, same thing with pokemon.

Though it looks bad if you equate it to dog fighting I guess.

I don't think those are gloves, mate.

how the hell did the Crowd not get roasted during those fights anyways?

No way a metal fence is going to protect people from 360 degree water sprays or fire breaths.

Yes, literally the only reason. You could say that it was because Pikachu having his father's soul gave him the ability to comunicate with the only person biologically linked to him, which was Tim.

In simple terms, pic related.

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>villain has statues of Dialga, Palkia, and Arceus in his office
>statues are arranged as they are in the games and other media
>villain's chair is set where Giratina's statue would be situated
Nice subtle way of foreshadowing his evil.

EVEN BETTER

They'll be fine

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>faithful english dub

oh hell no the reason most of the newer english pokemon dubs sucks balls is because they stayed too faithful to the japanese language and leads to really boring dialogues and writing. The japanese original writings are very generic and very basic.

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Mr.Mime. The entire scene with him was fucking gold
>Telling Pikachi to shove it
>Mr.mime being a smug ass and just chilling
>Tim going mime to get into his room
>The fucking gasoline and the match
I sorta wished Mr.Mime was in some Post Credit-Scene showing he was alright

Sure, if it's trainer battles, but wild encounters are literally just letting your guy and a wild animal maul at each other with no real consent by the wild Pokemon, unless you believe the Sinnoh myth that every wild Pokemon exist just to wait for humans to come along.

>Jesse and james
So how many times have those two fucked?

Pokemon battles are not bad, in-universe they have always been treated as a way for humans and Pokemon to bond and grow to levels they'd never be able to achieve when alone, the founder of Ryme City simply had the ideology that both could leave as actual equals in one single enviroment, which strikes me a bit weird considering the city was pretty much an urban jungle with little to no green areas, you'd expect a better connection with nature.

A bunch, but it was James that got fucked

We know from the cubone that wild Cubones are the devil.

>Thinking its a bad thing that its the girl that's dominant during sex

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I've skipped a few gens, and barely touched Diamond/Pearl - tl;dr Giratina for me?

Well you got me there.

>It has to WANT to be your partner
This line really nailed it for me. There's undoubtly Pokemon who want to be caught for their own personal reasons, either to become stronger through battles or they see it as a step up from their current life. There's always been a duality of Pokemon who do or don't want to interact with humans. That's why you can't catch fainted Pokemon, because it would rather fight until it's literally incapable rather then being caught and it seems pokeballs are programmed to stop from forcing the issue aside from the masterball

literally just satan

I didn't say it was a bad thing

Third child of Arceus. Incredibly violent, so it was banished into the Distortion World. It rules over anti-matter, or something like that.

Don't think you're using that quote properly.

Forcing what he wanted on everyone else was stupid.
When he got what he wanted he should have fucked off with his body and went else where

>but wild encounters are literally just letting your guy and a wild animal maul at each other with no real consent by the wild Pokemon

Wrong. In-universe, wild Pokemon always have to consider if the trainer is worthy of having them in their team, they literally mention it at the beginning of the movie when Tim tries to capture the Cubone. Wild Pokemon, canonically, actually wish to become stronger and know that joining a trainer who has managed to beat them fair and square in battle will help them accomplish that goal.

The Satan to Arceus' God, it was banished to an anti-matter dimension for its violence where it lives completely alone, though it can come to the normal world on occasion.

May need to rewind a bit then, child of Arceus? didn't know that. Also, what's the deal with the origin form? My only knowledge of giratina comes from GO, sadly

It's just unhealthy for type of person James is

a whiny girly-boy?

Giratina is literally Lucifer, the third of the original creation trio of Arceus who revealed against God and was banished to the Distortion World in order to keep balance between dimensions.

It’s okay to like things, user. Don’t be so hard on yourself.

If you believe the creation myth, Arceus is the creator deity of the entire world. It created Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina to control timespace. Giratina's Origin Forme is just something it uses to traverse the Distortion World.

Right after CSI: Saffron City

My biggest problem with it is that the trailers spoiled waay to much of the plot and all the cool stuff. I almost felt like I was watching the movie for the second time when I was at the cinema.

Also, it seemed kinda forced that the main dude was a black guy with a white girlfriend. I wish hollywood would contain their BLACKED fetish just a tiny bit. It's not even subtle anymore.

Both that and a crossdresser

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Thanks anons.

I think that makes jessie the perfect match for him, keeps him going by taking charge of the situations when he's basically just fuck off into a corner aimlessly otherwise.

Was a cutie, but should have had more involvement.
really liked her outfit with the red jacket. Imo, it's objectively her best outfit compared to the other 2
Even the ditto version of her was cute with the beady eyes in that outfit

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>May need to rewind a bit then, child of Arceus?

Dialga, Palkia and Giratina are the first three Pokemon who Arceus created at the beginning of the universe, who reign over space, time and dimensions respectively. There's an actual event in HGSS where if you take an event Arceus from one of the movies, he literally creates one of them at Lv1 after a whole sequence of real life images which tries to emulate the creation of the universe and the pass of time, before creating the egg which hatches into the Pokemon you choose.

Yknow, the one big thing that bugs the shit out of me about the anime series, is that those two were doing GOOD when Jesse was a pokemon coordinator or whatever it was called. They finally found something they were good at without being basically thugs/crime, they had redemption, a life, that's how their arc should have ended, damnit. Not lapsing back into the kid-stalking pokemon-thieving changing-the-Team Rocket Motto-every-week faggotry it became.

My bad, Dialga is time, Palkia is space.

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So to ask the most important question: In your opinion, do you think this is now the best videogame movie ever? Did it beat Mortal Kombat?

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It was really good video game movie. Best? Probably not.

Best live action Pokemon movie.

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My mouth is watering thinking about it.

Since the whole scene played out like something from Alien, it'd be amazing if it also involved oviposition somehow. Frogs lay eggs after all, right?. It'd be the ultimate nut.

Giratina's evil?

It definitely is, but that's no big achievement. A 7.5/10 for sure. It works mostly for the remarkable achievement of proving live action Pokemon is something we needed, but i'm confident future Pokemon films will blow it out of the water.

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They're all at build a bear

it was 9pm and I was with 2 other normal sized Pokemon fans

Treeko was really cute

As evil as a Pokemon can get, anyway. It was banished by Arceus to an empty antimatter dimension because of how violent it was.

movie needed more Ludicolo

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The best looking one was definitely Snubbull. Holy shit, that thing looked like it was actually there. Greninja also looked great.

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They're cut out photos of eyes taped to the glasses, like drawing pupils on your eyelids so you can fall asleep in class or at work.

Was it actually canon that Ash's father was Giovanni, or was that just Red?

His plan was stupid and Mewtwo's whole convoluted plan of merging Harry and Pikachu but with amnesia was stupid.

The first 40 minutes were absolute top tier Poke-world.

Giovanni is Silver's father.

Like you watch Pokemon movies for deep well-written stories. At least 3/4 of the anime movies have really stupid plots too.

>It's okay because it's consistently stupid

Nah.

I'd say everything up to right after the Torterra scene was absolutely fantastic and right after that it started becoming way too batshit crazy for its own good. The final act needed at least some 10 more minutes to develop thoroughly bcause as it stands, it went even more ADHD than the rest of the movie and really killed my enjoyment. At least it ended alright though. The good parts were heavily enjoyable and it was entrancing and mystifying to finally to see something like this in the big screen.

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I watch Pokemon movies for the Pokemon, the plot is secondary.

The pacing is one thing I agree needed work on, it feels like there were quite a few cuts, especially in the latter half, everything moved too fast and jumped around too much. Maybe the DVD/Blu-Ray releases will have the deleted scenes or be a director's cut.

It's fucked up that they had Gengar fight Blastoise and not Nidorino in that cage match. Would have been a nice little throwback to Red/Blue

Giovanni isnt Red or Ash's dad. His son is the rival from gold and silver

It was OK, the Mewtwo plot with souls or whatever was kind of cringe.

The Gengar vs. Blastoise fight was based tho, should just do a movie like the games, hero wants to be a champion, give some emotional reason for it, have a 'Mon team with personality and have battles

Would be good.

>cringe
It's amazing how fragile and easily-upset you people are.

k

American Electro Rat

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The shitty plot takes away time that could've been spent on cool pokeworld stuff. The middle act is boring as fuck.
It's sort of the same problem as the Transformers movies, they spend way too much time on the boring human characters and their boring problems

they're clearly trying to make them look Asian

I take it you're not familiar with Rocket Raccoon

Why was this deleted?

It was deleted?

Yeah I'm sure every furry would be lining out his door

Is that supposed to be Ditto?

She was like an IRL anime girl. Top waifu material. She's a few months younger then I am, do I stand a chance lads?

But in the stone age...

The third act was weird and poorly executed. And the movie had no theme, and poor character motivation.

I had fun tho.

I forgave it cause they actually had a pretty diverse cast of Pokemon.

I don't remember this in the movie

Hat Kid in the train video's sposed to be Red, yeah?

Oh I thought you meant the post. The webm is just from a viral marketing meme deadpool tried to push.

youtube.com/watch?v=tAA_yWX8ycQ

the asian wit the red hat? most likely.

retard

You think you have it bad?

>Tfw bug trainer.
>Tfw lest representation in pokemon.
>Only got 1 bug mon in the movie and you see it for 5 seconds.

I'm pretty sure Justice Smith is the most knowledgable when it comes to Pokemon.

Fuck, this, you'd think Bugs would be one of the most common Types in the city, but there's nothing.

It was enjoyable for the most part. It got kinda goofy toward the 3rd act.

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Dialga appears as a statue.

Yea Forums where do I go to commission someone for a life-sized version of the Audino from the movie.

That pokemon has no right to be so incredibly fucking plush looking I want to hug it SO BAD.

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Based taste. I was actually hoping Audino would be the Pokemon to come out to heal Pikachu.

Go ask the /trash/ plush thread or search furaffinity for custom plush crafters, I guess

Went to see Tanya the evil instead of Piss Wick 3

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>Her introduction scene was awful.
That wasn't actual bad acting, it was the _character_ acting like an edgelord and then it turns out she's just some random intern. That's the joke.

You can argue it's not a very good joke, but you completely misunderstood the scene if you thought it was serious.

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This, it's the same reason why Animal Crossing's dialogue sucks nowadays.

considering the main dude had Ryan for a white father

his momma got BLEACHED first

I don't think so, it's just supposed to be a generic trainer wearing a "uniform" or something.

So Tim used to follow the competitive scene going by the posters

Who do yall think his fav regional champ would be

It's too bad we didn't get a sexy nurse Joy or officer Jenny.

Going by how he longingly gazed at the Sinnoh poster, likely Cynthia.

Iris

>Villain is just a furry that can't keep his faggotry to himself.

the credits art was better than most of the official stuff that has been made for the mainline games in the last several years

Where does it ever say that? All I remember from those games is that Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina are not children of Arceus at all but aspects of it and that Arceus is totally benevolent in that it traps Cyrus with it instead of letting him remove spirit from the world.

In the Pokedex, Giratina's title is the Rebelion Pokemon.

>saw movie yesterday
>meh until the torterra scene
>then ryan sob sings the pokemon theme
>smiling like a raped sheep for the entire finale
Everything with mewtwo at the end was so bad it was good.

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He's tame compared to the other villains from the Pokemon games.

>y-you sure you don't want to stay, champ?
>naw it's good homie just let me off at the station
>at least let me walk you to the entrance
>awkward hug and based black protag heads for his train
>but then he remembers
>aw shieet that white girl who wanted be finna blacked
>eyo white boi ahaha
>*smacks lips*
>i was thinking
>*checks booty on nearby jynx*
>if i could finna crash at you a week or so?
>s-sure thing, let's go son
>aight don't call me that man let's go

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youtu.be/shdGLBrt8ns
He called Totodile a dragon

>mewtwo talks telepathically
>when that one scene happens and its mouth starts moving, it finally made sense why he looked so 'ayyy lmao' in the trailers
>face capture of the same actor in pic related

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It did, but then again, most of the joke was that he was getting tips from his fucking dad

>there are still people seething about the reporter acting
Imagine being this dense

Everyone knows pokegirls solely exist to get fucked I don't know why these fags are complaining instead of checking out those titties.

>you best start believing in ghost stories, pikachu
>you're in one

Hey I know that Lynx, his name is Rufus.

Wasn't that a Barbossa quote? Either way, fucking kek, made my night.

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Not really, It's only been out a week, m8. It'll be in theaters for at least a full month.

>If the marketing budget assumption of 2x of production is true, Detective Pikachu is fucked.
That's about as dumb as Manabi line posting on Yea Forums,

>movie ends
>trying to hide your full mast while everyone is getting up

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There was more effort put into that first Pokemon movie's dub than you'd originally think.
youtube.com/watch?v=Qrk1H9j9r0Y

>I sorta wished Mr.Mime was in some Post Credit-Scene showing he was alright
kek. im glad i wasnt the only one who was concerned

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Like others said, in-game Giovanni is the estranged father of Silver (the rival in GSC)

However, what you're probably thinking is how the live-stage show 'Pokemon Live' had this setup of Giovanni being Ash's father.
Which then festered for a lot of years in some people's minds as "canon" on account of how despite how often Ash runs into Team Rocket, his interactions with Giovanni were very sparse.
Now n days, the only "canon" deal with Ash's dad is often refereed too as some 'official' magazine that basically repeated the earlier first couple episodes of the show where his mom mentions his dad fucking off to be a trainer on his own.
Why they never gave Pokemon the HunterXHunter treatment is beyond me, but after 20 years, I doubt that's even on whoever is running the show's mind.
Still, imagine them pulling this plot point out of their ass out of no where. Would probably cause more publicity/interest in the show than whatever the XYZ championship did, would probably end up being an evener bigger dick puncher moment as well

>mewtwo movie remake
>get to see ash die in HD

Seeing the trailer before another movie, I was thinking what kind of a drooling, mouth-breathing, brainwashed burger-tard would actually pay money to see unfunny cash-grab donkey shit like this.
Then there's this thread.

It's not supposed to be Ditto, it is Ditto.

They shit all over it because it wasn't supposed to look that way.

Yes ditto-chan let out a good braaap

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What struck me as hilarious was that arceus exists and everyone still thinks mewtwo is the most powerful pokemon in the world.

>Sweet mother of Arceus
Cringe

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So pokemon are daemons, now?

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According to Colress in the games, yes, that is exactly what wild Pokemon do so that they can form telepathic bonds with us and feed off our vitality.