We’ve finally got a live-action Pokémon movie and it’s about a talking Pikachu who wears a hat a solves mysteries – POKÉMON Detective Pikachu. Directed by Rob Letterman, Pokémon: Detective Pikachu is an adaption of the 2016 game Detective Pikachu, which is itself a spin-off of the core Pokémon role-playing games. The movie stars Ryan Reynolds as the voice and facial motion capture of Detective Pikachu. Tim Goodman (Justice Smith) learns that his detective father, Harry, has presumably died whilst investigating a case. He travels to Ryme City, a city that outlaws Pokémon fighting and pushes the bonds of humans and Pokémon, to collect Harry’s assets. He meets Lucy Stevens (Kathryn Newton), a fluff columnist who wants to be a reporter, who is suspicious of Harry’s death. Tim encounters a hat wearing Pikachu (Ryan Reynolds) who only he can somehow understand. This Pikachu is an amnesiac detective who was Harry’s partner who was investigating a case with Harry when he disappeared. What happened to Harry? What is the mysterious gas labelled “R”? The investigation begins.