10 High-Profile 2019 Movies You Should Be Worried About

10. Detective Pikachu (May 10)

The Movie:

The first-ever live-action Pokémon movie (although the title character will be fully CGI), director and co-writer Rob Letterman's mystery/comedy will star Ryan Reynolds of all people as the voice of Pikachu.

Why You Should Be Worried:

Just who exactly is this movie aimed at?

Originally announced to capitalize on the completely bonkers success of Pokémon Go in 2016, the mayhem surrounding the augmented reality app has significantly cooled down since then. Fans of the series may have wanted a straight-up live-action Pokémon movie, but instead they're getting an adaptation of a game that didn't score particularly good reviews in the first place.

The franchise doesn't have the cultural pull that it used to, and Universal have already handed over distribution to Warner Bros. with shooting barely even completed. Rob Letterman has a solid background in animation, but the man behind Shark Tale and Gulliver's Travels also has an inconsistent filmography. To complete the sheer what-the-f**kery, the cast also includes talented actors Ken Watanabe and Bill Nighy alongside terrible actors Rita Ora and Suki Waterhouse.

The idea of a feature-length movie with a Ryan Reynolds-sounding Pikachu solving mysteries seems either insane or inane, and its hard to decide which. Animation has evolved, and audiences now want a lot more from these types of movies than just recognizable characters and celebrity voices.