Hold onto your deerstalkers budding Pokemon trainers and wannabe detectives everywhere because a new Detective Pikachu trailer has dropped and it is filled with several new creatures we haven’t seen yet.
With only a few months left to go before the film drops on May 10, the marketing team are really pulling out the stops to ensure fans that Detective Pikachu will be the Pokemon-filled live-action adventure we’ve all been waiting for since Pokemon first came onto the scene in 1996.
Without revealing everything, some of the highlights include the first glimpse of Ludicolo, whose trademark exasperated face is perfectly rendered by CGI:
He didn’t see anything shocking, he just looks like that all the time.
There was a cameo from Snubbull, who looks characteristically grumpy and absolutely adorable:
Awww, I just wanna pinch his cheeks (and hope to Ho-oh I don’t get bitten)
Don’t blink or you’ll miss the super-angry Aipom:
Don’t feed the monkey.
And the creme de la creme of all Pokemon appearances, one that we wished for but didn’t expect to happen – MEWTWO!
And boy he looks… weird?
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… I actually have no idea what it is.
Yikes. This version of Mewtwo is up there on the “looks strange” scale just behind the creepy realistic Lickitung we saw a few weeks ago.
It kinda looks like the Mewtwo we all know and love, but it also looks like an angry naked man floating in the sky.
Ugh, it’s going to take some effort to wipe that image out of my head. But hey, maybe it’s just me. (It probably is.)
One thing’s for sure, Ryan Reynolds is killing it as Detective Pikachu and he deserves all the gym badges in the world for his performance.
Take a gander at the trailer (and all the new creatures) here and make up your own minds on whether Mewtwo does or doesn’t look super weird.
*GASP* Is that a new #DetectivePikachu trailer!? Now that's very twisty. pic.twitter.com/MKlWXMmcbz
— POKÉMON Detective Pikachu (@DetPikachuMovie) February 26, 2019