There are many precedents for Hollywood adaptation of well-known Japanese animation IPs, and they have rich experience in adaptation. They should do their best to treat Pokémon and Pikachu, the world's top IPs, but the result is very disappointing to the audience. The combination of detective suspense and Pokémon feelings resulted in a bad story.
Howard, a wealthy businessman, is suffering from an incurable disease. He invested in the construction of Lyme City, nominally to explore and build a new mode of getting along with Pokémon and humans, but in fact, under the guise of using Pokémon to develop new medical technologies, hoping to cure his own disease.
The hero Tim's father, Harry, is a police officer in Lyme City. He and his partner, Pikachu, discovered that a new drug R reagent appeared in the city, which would make Pokémon lose their minds. After in-depth investigation, they found that Howard's PCL laboratory captured the strongest Pokémon, Chaos Meng, and used its serum to extract the R reagent. In order to sabotage Howard's evil experiment, Harry and Pikachu sneaked into the laboratory to turn off the power system. Soon they were surrounded by the Koga Ninja frogs who were chasing after them. Fortunately, Mewtwo, who managed to escape, arrived in time to save them, but Harry was in a coma. At this time, Bikachu volunteered his body to settle in Harry's soul, and asked him to find his son Tim for help. While the soul was exchanged, Harry lost his memory, forgot things related to the Howard case and even forgot himself. It's Harry.
Due to the father and son settings of Tim and Harry, even if Harry's soul enters Pikachu's body, he can still communicate with Tim normally. The two were misled by Howard, believing that Howard's son Roger was the mastermind behind the whole incident. They sneaked into the PCL laboratory again and were accidentally injured by the giant earth turtle.
Tim, who doesn't know the truth, wants to seek advice on Howard's next move, but Howard has achieved his goal: it turns out that he developed the R reagent to make Pokémon lose their minds, so as to better exert the effect of the mind control device, put the Transfer your soul to the most powerful Pokémon, Mewtwo. Howard, who successfully occupied Mewtwo's body, gained enormous power, intending to exchange the souls of humans and Pokémon around the world to create a new social order.
In the end, Pikachu and Tim join forces to smash Howard's conspiracy and finally restore peace to the world.
The script of this story is really rotten, and the logic of the whole story line is confusing.
Is Harry really evil? The hologram seen by Tim in the PCL lab explicitly says that Dr. Laurent asked Harry to capture Mewtwo so that she could complete the experiment. If it was Harry who captured Mewtwo, then it would be in contradiction with the part about letting Pikachu rescue Mewtwo and Mewtwo seeing the positive side of human nature. If Harry hadn't captured Mewtwo, how would this hologram be explained? How was Mewtwo captured? Harry can be said to be the core character of the whole story. It was his car accident that became the breakthrough point of the whole case. All the actions of the protagonist were based on the fact that Harry was a decent person. As a result, even Harry's own identity position Can't tell.
Those who looked at the part of the magic wall doll were at a loss. Lucy informs Tim that there may be clues about the R reagent at the dock. As soon as they arrived at the pier, they saw the magic wall puppet. The inexplicable magic wall puppet became Harry's former informant, and then the magic wall puppet gave a clue that "the R reagent came from a round house", and I don't understand them either. How to deduce from this clue that they are going to the underground Pokémon Arena, they went anyway.
In the underground Pokémon arena, after the chaos, Tim grabbed a duel boy covered in R reagent and pressed him. The boy left a sentence that Harry came here to find the R reagent, he was introduced by the doctor, and then Ran. I saw this clue at the end of the film and I didn't find it useful. The whole arena incident was just to make Tim and Pikachu show their faces, so that Howard could find them, but it was obvious that Tim and Pikachu were already in the previous I met you during a TV show, can't I find it?
The operation of Super Dream is also incomprehensible. Harry and Pikachu liberated Mewtwo, so Mewtwo beat the Jiahe Ninja frog and treated Harry, which was equivalent to repaying his gratitude. This logic made sense. But why Mewtwo wants Harry and Pikachu to exchange souls, I still can't understand, and I also agreed with Harry, who got Pikachu's body, to bring his son to see Mewtwo. You saved people and repaid the favor and then slipped away. What's the point of doing this series of operations?
The villain had countless opportunities to take out Tim and Pikachu, but just didn't do it, and let it go for almost no reason. After the protagonist group sneaked into the PCL laboratory, Pikachu was injured, and under the guidance of the garlic king, they found Mewtwo for treatment, and then Roger (Variety) who followed them succeeded in capturing Mewtwo. Even Mewtwo can be easily captured. Solving Pikachu and Tim is not a snap of a thing, only to leave with a smile? When Howard just took control of Mewtwo, he was face to face with Tim in a room. At this time, you didn't bother to deal with Tim and went straight to the window. You didn't think people would pull out your device? This villain designed it all, but it was too childish to be planted in such childish details.
When it comes to old Pokémon fans, you will definitely think of Pokémon Fairy Showdown, which is the most indispensable part of the Pokémon series, but it is almost absent in this film.
Recall the fight scene in the whole movie: in the first act, the hand-tailed monkey chased and ran, and there was basically no counterattack; in the second act, Pikachu fought against the fire-breathing dragon, but because of amnesia, he forgot how to use his skills and passed the level with the carp king; the third Maku was chased by Kaga Ninja frog, but he didn't fight back; Act 4 Tim + Roger vs. Variety? emmm, does that count; Act 5 Pikachu vs. Mewtwo, when Tim removes Howard's controls and ends abruptly.
So I haven't played it at all. The audience is looking forward to how Pikachu will win Chaomeng, but what the hell is it to win without a fight, I feel as uncomfortable as constipation when watching this plot. In the whole movie, I remember a Pikachu using 100,000 volts to hit Mewtwo, a battle scene, and 100,000 volts is not a discharge, how did it become a collision?
Speaking of this, I suddenly found out that in fact, Pokemon is just a pendant in detective movies. If you replace Pokemon with other animals, it will not affect the promotion of the plot. This is essentially just a suspense movie with a bad script. Pokemon Dreams are really optional.
The plot is 0 points, and the fighting scenes are also 0 points. The only thing that can be blown away is the feelings.
From the movie, I can really see some intentions of the screenwriter. Although I haven’t chased Pokémon since the gold and silver version, and I only know 251 Pokémon, I can still see a lot of old stalks and new ones. .
In the underground arena, Pikachu was cornered by the fire-breathing dragon. He lifted a carp king and said that it can evolve into a carp dragon with a single kick, paying tribute to the classic Pokémon TV animation version of Team Rocket kicking the carp king. Scenes.
Dr. Laurent mentioned that Chao Meng escaped from Guandu 20 years ago, which coincided with the release of the first Pokémon theatrical version "Mewtwo's Counterattack" 20 years ago. The birth of the dream, and how it escaped from the Kanto area, is clearly the same Mewtwo.
For example, Fat Ding's hypnotic song will always make people fall asleep. When it finds that others are asleep, it will take out a pen and scribble on the sleeping person's face angrily. The angry look is very restored.
Lucy also pays tribute to Xiaoxia, the heroine of the first-generation animated TV version of the TV version of Lucy. According to the Pokémon setting, the duck weighs nearly 20 kilograms. Lucy walks like a duck while carrying the duck. Maybe you think she is a Soft girl, in fact, is likely to be a King Kong Barbie.
After watching the whole film, one star is given to Pokémon's feelings, and one star is given to the modeling of Pokémon. Others are not worthy of comment. Two stars are capped, and there can be no more.
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