We have lived through an era. The first thing we do when we go home from school is to turn on the TV and wait for the "Pokemon" to be broadcast every night at 5:30. Which episode will be left will be very unhappy.
We have also experienced a time when Sapo rolled around begging our parents to buy us a Nintendo game console, collecting "Pokemon" game cards, from red, green, blue, crystal to ruby and sapphire.
It belongs to the best memory of our childhood. It is called "Pokemon", "Pokemon", "Pokémon" and now "Pokemon". We were all the ones who took Pikachu from Dr. Oki. The youngsters, while collecting elves, challenging the guild hall, and experiencing adventures, however, a movie called "Detective Pikachu" ruined these wonderful things.
"Detective Pikachu" is jointly produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures. It is the first Pokémon movie to be starred in real life, and it can be regarded as the continuation of the Japanese "Monster Watch: Flying Whale and Cross-Time Adventure Meow!" After "," another movie in which real people and anime characters co-starred, and Hollywood filmmakers also followed "Dragon Ball", "Ghost in the Shell", "Alita", "Sayato" and "Death Note". Once again proved his unique talent in destroying Japanese animation and game works.
Since the announcement of the title of the film, the film has received considerable attention, not only because Pokémon appeared on the big screen, but also what is the mystery behind this "big detective" and why it was adapted with the same name. The game is not an adaptation of the familiar story content, and what will it show us in the Hollywood way? Will such an IP empire that has been selling well for decades and is still bursting with popularity will subvert the audience's perception?
When it was announced that Deadpool actor Ryan Reynolds was going to voice Pikachu, fans all over the world were surprised and frightened as never before. No one knew what the movie would look like, so everyone chose to look forward to it more. The continuous release of trailers and viral videos shows marketing ingenuity rare in Hollywood movies in recent years, all of which seem to pave the way for an annual box office bomb.
However, after watching the film, apart from the anger of being deceived, insulted, and disgusted, I couldn't find any other movie-watching feelings.
"Detective Pikachu" is a real bad movie, a bad movie that has nothing to do with Pokémon, a soulless Hollywood-style bad movie, and a bad movie that respects neither animation fans nor game fans. It’s a bad movie, and it can’t wait to play the words "cheating your ticket money" in a loop for 100 minutes. To be honest, the 100-minute Pikachu dance video between is more sincere than this film.
The first thing that Hollywood films think about when adapting foreign films and TV dramas and games is not how to retain the soul and essence of the original, but how to reproduce the elements of the original in an old-fashioned Hollywood story. This is why Hollywood remakes The reason for the rare film of which has an excellent box office reputation. And this time, "Detective Pikachu" is also such an adaptation accident.
The reason why we like everything related to Pokémon is that it can satisfy our desire to collect, desire to take risks, desire to nurture cute pets, and desire to compete. Those magical Pokémon are like guardians around us. God, fight with us together. This is the reason why many adults still love it. This love is definitely not just from the simple image of Pokémon.
In the end, Hollywood is doing well. There is a Pikachu who can only talk and has Deadpool-style voice barrage. Has his brain been watted? I don’t believe that the original game is so greasy and wretched!
"Detective Pikachu" is essentially an old-fashioned suspense film about father-son love. The core of the story is that the son investigates the cause of his father's death and finally discovers the truth and his father's love for him. A Hollywood-style standard that has no personality. Templates, you can learn all the truth even after reading it for half an hour and guess one or two of the final reversal. A story like this can be said in any story context, and it doesn’t have anything to do with Pokémon. If there is any special necessary connection, I always feel that this movie is a deformity created by Warner Bros. finding a bad script that has been abandoned for a long time and then adding Pokémon elements.
The film is said to be "Detective Pikachu", but from beginning to end, Pokémon is only the sauce and background of the main story. From the establishment of the worldview, the whole movie is perfunctory. In the first ten minutes, after a fancy explanation of the so-called Pokémon competition and a short show of Pokemon, the film has nothing to do with the above settings in the subsequent time, and it comes to the one called Lai. After the place in the city, the mode of the copycat "Crazy Animal City" started from beginning to end.
The most unbearable part of "Detective Pikachu" is trying to blend a film noir-style detective story with dystopian conspiracy and the most familiar cute things. As you can imagine, no part of it is explained. .
It’s a detective story, but the whole plot is very simple and rude. The detective doesn’t rely on the brain, and it’s a lot of night scenes and awkward chatter. Of course, you can say that the film’s positioning is relatively young, but it is also positioned for the young "Crazy" The script of "Animal City" is thrown away from this film. I don't know how many Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridges are!
As a dystopian film, the film also failed. At the beginning, the film explained that Lyme is the only city where humans live with Pokémon, but the Pokémon in this city is not so much living with humans as it is pets, all of their images Switching to cats and dogs will not affect the whole story telling in the slightest, which makes people have to ask, since they are pets, why can't other cities live together? Of course, this setting was completely ignored in the final time of the film.
And in this city, the rich and powerful of the enemy are in control of everything, a mysterious criminal is developing a chemical that makes Pokémon angry, and a conspiracy that endangers the destiny of mankind is brewing. Doesn’t it sound familiar? Not very "The Amazing Spider-Man", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Age of Mutants", "Zoo City", "X-Men 1", "Batman: Hour of War", well, anyway, there are countless movies that use this However, "Detective Pikachu" did not even try to make it reasonable.
Under the perfunctory plot, the film also tried to create an atmosphere of dystopian technology panic, and also designed Chaomeng into a BOSS-like character and made several reversals on it. As a result, we only saw it. The climax of the fool, the design of the fool, the announcement of the truth of the fool, and an extremely cheating explanation of why Pikachu can speak. In the end, all the so-called dystopian designs and film noir designs are reduced to a father-son relationship that tastes the same. Foil.
Of course, the most annoying thing about the film is the serious waste of Pokémon. Previously, this fat Ding’s animated picture exploded the WeChat emoji circle, but those who have watched the video will find that the film hastily switched the camera without even putting his angry expression in it. In fact, most of the Pokémon in the film give Human feelings are the same as fat Ding, can be deleted or left, the meaning of their existence is not to enrich the story, not to build a complete world view, but just to let the audience see the CG version of the Pokémon. This is the main creation of the movie. There is only a trace of sincerity left by fans of the original.
In the end, almost all the scenes in the film and almost all the Pokémon that appear in the movie can be found in the trailer. So, do you feel the contempt of the good memories of your childhood by the profiteers? If I own a Pikachu now, I must take it to electrocute the producer and director at 100,000 volts!
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