Pokémon Detective Pikachu was a massive hit with everyone whose soul wasn’t a hardened, blackened crust. The story of an age indeterminate trainer analog, who travels to the big city before realizing that his father was wrapped up in a conspiracy that only his dad’s Pikachu can hope to help unravel, which is helped by the fact that this Pokemon is completely sentient and also a detective maybe?
The film’s unique take on the Pokémon universe, mixing an adventure coming of age story with overwhelming sci-fi Pokémon, was a runaway success that could’ve only been improved if they had gone with their original idea for the titular rat. In the film, Ryan Reynolds serves as the voice of Pikachu in the same snarky, I’m too charming to hate but too wooden to love voice he’s maintained since the Green Lantern movie, but the original idea was for the perfect man to take the role. The Trash Man.