Detective Pikachu
Mostly Nitpicking
Mostly Nitpicking
4.6 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2019
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
It wants to be the very best (video game movie) like no one ever was. And it is. Partially because it's pretty good and partially by default.
This week Nando and DJ follow the line of Bulbasaurs to the first video game movie that isn't pointless, Detective Pikachu. They nitpick the Pokemon, the evil schemes, and of course the hats.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on? I am Nando. |
| 0:14.0 | And I'm DJ. |
| 0:15.9 | And this is mostly nitpicking, a podcast where every week we pick apart a piece of pop culture by looking exclusively at the details. |
| 0:22.8 | Woohoo! |
| 0:24.7 | DJ this week. |
| 0:25.7 | We're going to be talking about a movie that has no business being any good, and it is at least kind of good. |
| 0:33.0 | It's going to be really exciting, and yeah, we're going to do non non-spoilers and then we're going to do some spoiler talk. |
| 0:39.5 | So there are a fair amount of spoilers for this movie. |
| 0:41.7 | So definitely don't, like, don't listen to the whole episode. |
| 0:44.8 | We will tell you when the spoilers are coming. |
| 0:46.4 | But, yeah, we'll talk about that. |
| 0:50.5 | We're recording this on May 13th. |
| 0:55.0 | So happy X-Men Day to you, DJ. |
| 0:57.4 | Happy X-Men Day to you, too, Nando. |
| 0:59.7 | The day that X-Men and Twitter made, the fake holiday where I think there's like X-Men events and stuff. |
| 1:08.3 | It's a real bummer. |
| 1:10.4 | Like it's like, so like the thing that I thought for X-B, |
| 1:13.7 | or like what I kind of saw online was like Hugh Jackman and like Ryan Reynolds both tweeted |
| 1:19.8 | videos or something were like, oh, I love the character. |
| 1:22.8 | It's so great. |
| 1:23.4 | X-Men are great. |
| 1:24.4 | And you're like, oh, yeah, the X-Men are great. |
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