{"id":62458,"date":"2019-03-27T01:44:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T08:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/6-things-detective-pikachu-is-already-doing-right\/"},"modified":"2019-03-27T01:44:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T08:44:36","slug":"6-things-detective-pikachu-is-already-doing-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/6-things-detective-pikachu-is-already-doing-right\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Things Detective Pikachu Is Already Doing Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call me crazy, but I think 2019 might be the year we get the first good video game movie — And yes, Mortal Kombat is a wacky, stupid, fun time that I\u2019ve adored since I was eight, seen dozens of times, and own on blu-ray, but if you unironically think it\u2019s a genuinely good movie, please please<\/em> watch more movies.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

But now, we\u2019re just months away from Pok\u00e9mon: Detective Pikachu, and it looks way better than it has any right to\u2026 Could this be the first good video game movie? Here are six choices that might keep this furry flick from being big screen shovelware.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1. A Pikachu, Not THE Pikachu<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

Detective Pikachu is A Pikachu, but he\u2019s not THE Pikachu, the one that\u2019s been hanging out with Ash Ketchum for over a thousand episodes of the cartoon show, and he\u2019s not even the same Detective Pikachu from the 3DS game released last year <\/a>who sounded like Danny DeVito, as funny as that would\u2019ve been.<\/p>\n

Continue reading\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

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Call me crazy, but I think 2019 might be the year we get the first good video game movie — And yes, Mortal Kombat is a wacky, stupid, fun time that I\u2019ve adored since I was eight, seen dozens of times, and own on blu-ray, but if you unironically think it\u2019s a genuinely good movie,… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t