Gaming has enjoyed a rare spell of genuinely good movie tie-ins just lately, with both Pokémon Detective Pikachu and Sonic The Hedgehog being worth a watch. As such, UK Netflix subscribers will be pleased to hear that both films are headed to the service this month.
Detective Pikachu, which loosely follows plot points from the 3DS game, will start streaming on 16th November. It features Ryan Reynolds as Pikachu and Justice Smith takes on the lead role of Tim Goodman; you can set a reminder on your Netflix account right here.
As for the Sonic movie, you'll have to wait just a little bit longer. The blue blur speeds onto the streaming service on 27th November; the film stars James Marsden, Ben Schwartz as Sonic, and Jim Carrey as Doctor Eggman.
Will you be giving these a watch later this month? Seen them already? Let us know in the usual place.
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Yay! Two movies I enjoyed, but will now have to endure the kids watching them 100+ times over the next few months.
I got them on blu-ray already and watched them in theatres at the time, I enjoyed them plenty enough though I think I prefer Detective Pikachu overall.
Detective Pikachu was cool, not sure it was cool enough to watch again, but Sonic I really did not like. Nothing much seemed to happen and it had way too many pop culture references that some "jokes" will age poorly.
Hopefully the second film makes it feel more sonic and not just a typical getaway film with a talking hedgehog.
There are plenty of good videogame movies, but not if they hit these two conditions: Made by Hollywood, and live-action, not animated.
Videogame movies do better in Japan, and when they are animated, especially since many videogames have CGI cutscenes and these movies are pretty much them for 1h30m.
Detective Pikachu wasn't that good. Sonic was great.
Ohhh nice i havent seen both of them yet.
Wanted to see Sonic, but forgot about it.
Watched both on Sky, they werent bad, liked Pickachu just because of Ryan Reynolds
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I have not seen either, and I live in the US soooooo…
Netflix UK, bah I hate region restrictions.
And some say then "USE A VPN!" but I went that route once and for one I got blocked after a while and second it's stupid I have to pay twice for 2 sevices to see all content of one.
Maybe I should get the BD of that Pikachu movie, they sell that for like 4 euro here nowdays... (Sonic I saw in the cinema roughly 1 week before the pandemic really went of of the hand in my country)
@Kiz3000 I have a feeling they are taking the MCU approach by being relatively low stakes before slowly escalating with each following film.
Iron Man was relatively self-contained and low stakes in comparison to the later and grander films.
I thought these were pretty decent movies, though I don't think I'd want to watch them again. Better than I expected though.
This DP teaser trailer is even better than the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmnkAOO6Qo4
The Sonic one was great, I'm eagerly waiting for the sequel. Pikachu movie... Was fun, but I'd prefer the game.
I just got them both on DVD (sorry, no Blu-Ray players for me). No real hurry for me, but it sure took them long enough to hit Netflix. But I have to say, the Sonic movie CD looks so cheap I thought it was a bootleg or a pirated movie.
But not for Netflix USA though. Ofc America gets sidelined
That's strange as pokemon dectective was on amazon prime video a while back. Nice to finally get to see sonic though
Whuh? Holland's had Pikachu for a while now.
Is sonic really a video game movie or a movie that features 2 video game characters? I don’t really classify it as a movie because it is so different from the source material. It’s really a new adventure, not an adaptation
Good? I see why that was formed in a question because they certainly aren't good.
one thing these creators never try is making a movie that actually sticks close to the source material.
its always (A) the movie hardly resembles and is barely related to the game it's titled after, and is also terrible or (B) as in these two films, the movie is a decent C+ grade film with licensed characters kind of bolted on.
the only counter example i can think of right now is the netflix Castlevania series, and thats not movie. so.
Pikachu was ok, not seen the Sonic movie.
I liked both. In fact, Detective Pikachu was the first ever Pokémon related product that I enjoy. I liked the Sonic Movie too, but not as much as Detective Pikachu (even been a Sonic fan in the 8/16bits era). I may watch them again, but only right before the sequels
These movies proved that films based on Video Games can find successes on the big screen. If they can work as films, so can Metroid, Zelda, Star Fox, heck possibly DK. IE, Liked the sonic movie, didn't watch DP.
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