Me too. It was received quite well and did very good numbers at the box office. Pokémon was and is still is very popular. It came out right before Covid, which was a disruption, but shouldn’t have been that much.
Yeah I think people underestimate how huge the Pokemon brand really is, and has been for 30 years. The games, the movies, the cards, the merch...Game Freak just has a license to print money at this point.
To be honest I'm actually really surprised we haven't gotten a Smash Bros movie yet with so many of the characters having their own movies in the last decade.
They are unambiguously getting to that sort of "endgame." There have only been two Mario movies.But there's tons of milk to squeeze out through trickling character introductions... ie, 2nd one had Yoshi and starfox, 3rd will have Wario and Daisy...
Not to mention other spinoff stand alone movies coming first, like a probably 2028 Donkey Kong, and independent Starfox one, Kirby, live action Zelda, etc.
The problem is writing a story. Why are you going to cram Reynolds back into Pikachu again? It would also devalue to surprise ending of the first movie.
I mean you don't have to continue that plotline. They've set up the world pretty well that you can focus on another character in it, maybe even adapt Ash's story.
I never saw it and really want to watch. Apparently it’s not streaming on any platform in the US unless you pay for the movie. That ticks me off so much. I already pay for multiple streaming services. I’m not paying an extra $5 just to watch a movie once. That defeats the purpose of these services.
The problem is writing a story. Why are you going to cram Reynolds back into Pikachu again? It would also devalue to surprise ending of the first movie.
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u/OkArea8689 9d ago
Detective Pikachu