Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)

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Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)




DIRECTED BY:

Rob Letterman

PRODUCED BY:

Legendary Pictures
Nintendo
The Pokémon Company International

WRITTEN BY:

Alex Hirsch
Nicole Perlman

STUDIO:

Legendary Pictures

DISTRIBUTED BY:

Warner Bros.
Toho

LICENSED BY:

The Pokémon Company
Nintendo

RUNNING TIME:

~100 minutes

PREMIERE:

JapanFlag.svg May 3, 2019
UnitedStatesFlag.svg May 10, 2019

Synopsis

In a world where people collect Pokémon to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent talking Pikachu who seeks to be a detective.

Storyline

In the Pokémon universe, Tim Goodman is a 21-year-old insurance appraiser who has given up Pokémon training due to the death of his mother and the absence of his father, Harry. He travels to Ryme City – a metropolis where humans and Pokémon live together as equals – to collect Harry's assets following his apparent death in a car crash. In Harry's apartments, Tim encounters a deerstalker-clad Pikachu that can speak and only he can somehow understand; the pair then escape from an attack by a throng of Aipom[c] under the influence of an "R"-labeled purple gas that Tim accidentally released upon inspection. They take shelter at a café where Pikachu reveals that he is an amnesiac detective who was Harry's police partner, and that they were investigating a case together when Harry disappeared. They look for Lucy Stevens, a fluff columnist and aspiring reporter suspicious of Harry's death, who Tim had previously encountered. She leads Pikachu and Tim to Ryme Wharf and, after interrogating a Mr. Mime there, are directed to an illegal Pokemon fighting arena owned by Sebastian. He demands a rematch with Pikachu, who previously defeated Sebastian's Charizard. However, after Sebastian gives Charizard a dose of the R gas, Tim attempts to save Pikachu during the rematch after it becomes obvious that Pikachu cannot remember how to use his electric powers. Sebastian then mishandles the R gas and accidentally releases it into the stadium, causing havoc. Sebastian tells Tim that he got the R gas from "the doctor".

After confronting police lieutenant Hideo Yoshida about Harry's apparent death and the possibility of his survival, Tim and Pikachu are brought before Ryme City's benefactor Howard Clifford by his bodyguard Ms. Norman, who reveals to them that Harry indeed survived his car crash, which was caused by an attack from a recently escaped Mewtwo, which took him away and left Pikachu with amnesia. Howard warns them of his son, Roger, who he claims is in de facto control of his company and the city. Pikachu and Tim recruit Lucy and her Psyduck on an expedition to the lab facility Harry was investigating, where they learn Sebastian's "doctor", Ann Laurent, was a researcher aided by Harry, who had been experimenting on Mewtwo, recaptured after escaping from the Kanto region 20 years earlier. They are soon attacked by several Greninja who chase them out of the building, but are fended off by Psyduck's powers. They then escape a field of colossal Torterra, but Pikachu is gravely injured. Tim manages to communicate with a Bulbasaur and takes Pikachu to a clearing in the forest where they are greeted by Mewtwo, who heals Pikachu and restores some of his memories, which show that he was the one who released Mewtwo from the lab. Mewtwo attempts to reveal its intent, but is captured by Roger. Thinking that he betrayed Harry to a vengeful Mewtwo, Pikachu leaves Tim while the others return to Ryme City to warn Howard. Pikachu comes across the area where Harry's car crash occurred, and finds evidence that the Greninja attacked Harry, not Mewtwo.

Tim reaches Howard, but learns too late that he intends to transfer his consciousnesses into Mewtwo and use its powers to fuse Pokémon with their owners, with the assistance of the R gas, believing that he will help both species to reach the next stage of their evolution. Howard also explains that he hired Harry to help capture and experiment on Mewtwo in order to perfect the mind transfer device under the guise of finding a cure for Howard's deteriorating health, but Harry and Pikachu began to figure out what was really going on and helped Mewtwo escape, so Howard had him killed. Tim also learns that "Roger" and Ms. Norman have both actually been the same genetic enhanced shape-shifting Ditto, with the real Roger having been tied up, gagged, and hidden. As Howard in Mewtwo's body starts fusing humans with Pokémon including Lucy, Pikachu arrives and finally summons his electricity powers to battle Mewtwo, Tim and Roger defeat Ditto by spreading R gas cylinder to Ditto while Pikachu fends off Mewtwo long enough for Tim to free Mewtwo from Howard's control. Mewtwo restores everyone to normal while Howard is arrested by the police. After Lucy and Tim make plans to celebrate, it is revealed that Mewtwo had kept Harry's body and fused his consciousnesses with Pikachu's because he was injured from the crash after Pikachu begged Mewtwo to help him, losing both their own memories by result. Mewtwo states that while it still thinks humanity is evil, this ordeal has taught it that not all humans are bad. After Mewtwo unfuses and restores them and leaves, a fully recovered Harry offers Tim the chance to return home, but Tim decides to stay in order to learn how to become a detective and spend time with him and Pikachu.