May 24, 2019 • 33 mins
Is the curse of the bad video game movie over?
The Detective Pikachu film is... quite decent! Yeah, it's a kid's film, so don't expect a super-deep plot here. But it somehow manages to take Pokémon -- fantastical cartoon creatures -- and put them naturally into the real world. Whatever you think of the plot or the characters, that in itself is one hell of an achievement.
But maybe the bigger achievement is making a video game film that isn't abjectly terrible. We ran down some of our …
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