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from 107 comments
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FUN
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how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
40
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Nobody has rated this on FlickFeel yet. This is public discussion of this title, read into a curve. It is not a rating and it never becomes one.
Read from 107 comments (72 from Reddit, 29 from Metacritic, 6 from TMDB reviews) — 22 of them described how it moves.
➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Warm most of the way through. Very little of it ever resolves.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
“at the beginning when he first gets of the train, they are showing a clip of Squirtles helping fire fighters. I was really hoping there would’ve been an ornery one wearing sunglasses..”
iBigBoyBrian · Reddit ↗
“the whole twist with the aviator glasses was a pretty great reveal”
nameless88 · Reddit ↗
“the little twist at the end was a little predictable”
notmyrlacc · Reddit ↗
“The Blastoise vs Gengar battle was the best part of the movie”
zoso33 · Reddit ↗
“the ending was a LOT better than the ending to the actual game!”
xxgato · Reddit ↗
“And how about that credits sequence showing the cast in the video game art style? That was awesome.”
In_My_Own_Image · Reddit ↗
Read 25 Aug 2026 · confidence 100% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
Published reviews, not felt experience — a different question from the one above, and never mixed into the FlickFeel score.
It plays better than it reviews — the watch lands harder than the write-ups suggest.
“Smith’s character gives the story an emotional weight and Reynolds delivers an endearing comedic performance that’s closer to his subversive Deadpool schtick than you’d expect. While video game movies haven’t had the best track record, this movie is by and far the best example of how to do one right.”
Joshua Yehl, IGN · 80
“The movie relies on the chemistry between Reynolds and Smith plus nostalgia, but it works well. This might be the best video game-based movie yet. So when it comes to tickets, movie-goers gotta catch 'em all.”
Samantha Incorvaia, Arizona Republic · 80
“It's by no means the Pokémon film anyone would have asked for, but it’s one I’m delighted exists.”
Robbie Collin, The Telegraph · 80
“The CGI critters are seamlessly integrated with the 35mm cinematography, the film stock’s grain smoothing the visual tackiness.”
Simran Hans, The Observer (UK) · 80
“While there ample missteps—a villain the audience doesn’t really care about, a lack of epic fights that brought the original audience to both the games and shows, and a predictable plot—the film manages to be a hell of a lot of fun, capturing the spirit of its source material as effectively as a well-aimed Poké Ball.”
Joelle Monique, Paste Magazine · 77
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 25 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“at the beginning when he first gets of the train, they are showing a clip of Squirtles helping fire fighters. I was really hoping there would’ve been an ornery one wearing sunglasses..”
iBigBoyBrian▲ 2,234about 0–15% inread it ↗
“the whole twist with the aviator glasses was a pretty great reveal”
nameless88▲ 1,531about 75–100% inread it ↗
“the little twist at the end was a little predictable”
notmyrlacc▲ 1,260about 80–100% inread it ↗
“The Blastoise vs Gengar battle was the best part of the movie”
zoso33▲ 707about 33–66% inread it ↗
“the plot… yeah, that’s where it falls apart”
ahmetcanerkaraabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“arrested me for its beginning of mystery”
SrGusabout 0–15% inread it ↗
“it does run out of a steam a little before the end”
drlowdonabout 80–100% inread it ↗
“towards the end, where it became too ambitious and confusing for a Detective Pikachu movie”
bradens584about 75–100% inread it ↗
“The whole climax and reveal of the evil plot to merge people with Pokémon was kind of lame to me”
The Movie Mobabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“Most of the movie gets surprisingly serious and dark early on”
Sheldon Nylanderabout 0–33% inread it ↗
“Expect emotional whiplash from this one”
Sheldon Nylanderabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“If you enjoy reading my Spoiler-Free reviews, please follow my blog :) I’m going to write it straight away: I didn’t enjoy Pokémon Detective Pikachu as much as I wanted to. In some ways, it disappointed me. Now, you’re probably thinking “oh, he’s one of those people who never saw or played Pokémon in his life, and now he’s going to destroy the film because he never understood it”. Not even close. There are always three groups of people when it comes to these famous franchises that have massiv”
Manuel São Bentoread it ↗
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