Detective Pikachu and Lucario

**Detective Pikachu and Lucario** is a mystery comedy film screenwritten and directed by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant. The film stars Natalie Portman as the voice of Lucario, Jason Sudeikis as the voice of Pikachu, Justice Smith, Emma Roberts, Diane Kruger, Lennon himself, Jeremy Irvine, William Fichtner, Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro, Peter Serafinowicz as the voice of Mewtwo and Saffron Burrows as the voice of the Narrator and it is the seventh installment of the Sonic Cinematic Universe.

## Plot

The film starts in a laboratory where Mewtwo (voiced by Peter Serafinowicz), the world’s most powerful Pokemon, is being kept for experiments. He awakens and breaks free from his chamber before destroying the whole facility. Mewtwo flies away from the scene and over a road where he appears to fire a blast at a car, sending it off the road. Just outside of Ryme City, Tim Goodman (Justice Smith) and his friend Jack (Alexander Ludwig) are out in a field where Jack has led Tim to try and catch a Cubone. Tim is not interested in having a Pokemon, but Jack pushes him to try. Tim throws a Pokeball at Cubone, but it bursts back out and tries to attack the guys. After they get away, Tim receives a phone call informing him that his parents has been apparently killed in the car crash from earlier. Tim goes to Ryme City where humans and Pokemon co-exist and work together (Ludicolo are baristas, Machamp are crossing guards, etc). A video he sees explains that the city was established by Howard Clifford (Robert De Niro), who runs his company Clifford Industries with his son Roger (Jeremy Irvine). Later, Tim meets Looker (Kenneth Branagh), Looker knews his parents, but Tim was estranged from his parents. It is revealed that Tim was a former Pokemon trainer, but he gave up and is now an insurance salesman. Yoshida gives Tim a key to his father's locker to collect his belongings. Tim goes to the locker where he is found by Lucy Stevens (Emma Roberts), a young reporter who works as an unpaid intern for a local news station and has a Psyduck as a companion. Lucy is curious about the circumstances surrounding Harry’s alleged death. Tim then goes upstairs to Harry’s apartment where he finds a note from Harry written specifically for Tim, plus a canister containing a purple gas called Serum R that he accidentally spreads outside, affecting a group of Aipom. He hears some noise and soon meets Detective Pikachu (voiced by Jason Sudeikis) and Lucario (voiced by Natalie Portman). Lucario and Pikachu does know their parents since they were their Pokemon partners who was believed to have died with them. Tim can understand them talking while everyone else hears Pikachu's pika noises and Lucario's grunts. As they try to figure out what is going on, they are attacked by the Aipom, who have gone crazy. The three get away just before the effects of the gas wear off and the Aipom go back to normal. Tim, Pikachu and Lucario go to a cafe where they try and figure out everything involving his parents's death. Tim suggests that they go talk to Lucy. They find her at an event where she is getting chewed out by Roger. There, Pikachu figures that Tim has a crush on her, but Lucario isn't interested. Lucy mentions to the three that Harry went to a spot called Ryme Wharf, and they may find answers there. As the three head to Ryme Wharf, they find a Mr. Mime and try to interrogate him. Mr. Mime just fools around and puts himself in a box, but Tim decides to play along and mime his own interrogation technique. Mr. Mime gives up the location of an illegal underground Pokemon battle. There, Tim meets a trainer named Sebastian (Thomas Lennon) who has a bone to pick with Lucario and Pikachu since Pikachu left a scar on his Charizard after a previous battle. Tim wants to know why Harry was there, but Sebastian will only say if Lucario and Pikachu wins at a rematch. The little guy is thrown into the ring against the Charizard, only Sebastian uses Serum R on it, making it go wild and try to kill Pikachu. Making things worse is that Pikachu seems to have forgotten how to use his electric powers. Tim has to jump into the arena to intervene. In the chaos, Sebastian accidentally releases all the R into the arena, causing every Pokemon there to lose it. Tim tries to press Sebastian for information, but he only says that he got the gas from someone called “The Doctor”. Tim goes to talk to Looker to suggest that Howard is behind his parents's murder, but Yoshida shows him footage of the car crash through a hologram, saying that nobody could survive it. Tim, Lucario and Pikachu leave, only to be met by a mysterious woman called Ms. Norman (Diane Kruger) She escorts the three to Howard’s home. Tim sees that Howard is handicapped, and that he tried to cure his ailment, but instead chose to create an environment for humans and Pokemon. Howard also shows Tim footage of the crash, but with his advanced technology, he shows sides of the footage he didn’t see before, including images of his parents's dead bodies while Pikachu and Lucario crawling out of the wrecked car, as well as Mewtwo hovering above them, suggesting that he tried to attack them without their death or murders. As Howard encourages Tim to go look for his parents, he also warns him to watch out for Roger since he seems to have shady intentions. Tim, Pikachu and Lucario have a moment where Tim explains his story to Pikachu and Lucario and his whole relationship with his parents. He regrets not spending time with them after his parents's death. Pikachu and Lucario assures Tim that when they find out the truth of his parents's death, they will hug him so hard that his bones will pop. Tim, Lucario and Pikachu team up with Lucy and Psyduck to continue their investigation. They find the facility where Mewtwo was being experimented on in a project headed by Dr. David Kine (William Fichtner), who is also responsible for creating the Serum R. The group watches recorded footage from the days of the experiment with Kine documenting his research on the serum and Mewtwo, right up until he escaped and apparently killed him. One last bit of footage shows that Kine recruited his parents, Pikachu and Lucario to find Mewtwo. The group are then attacked by a team of Greninja, all the way out of the facility. As they run toward the woods, Psyduck uses his power to keep the Greninja away. The earth then starts moving and folding, revealing that they have found the Torterra Islands. However, Lucario and Pikachu gets hit by a large rock and are injured. Tim spots a Bulbasaur and pleads with him to help heal both Lucario and Pikachu. It returns with other Bulbasaur, who guide the group to their healer – Mewtwo. He revives both Lucario and Pikachu, but Tim asks him what he did to his parents. Before Mewtwo can explain, he is captured by Roger and his team. Pikachu feels that he betrayed Tim and his parents for helping the villains get to Mewtwo and angering him, so he leaves Tim, Lucario decides to stay with him. Tim and Lucario goes back to Ryme City with Lucy and Psyduck to warn Howard. Pikachu walks alone by a bridge when he comes across the site of the murder scene. Through more unseen footage of the crash, he sees that two businessmen shot the car and caused the car to flip over, and the blast from Mewtwo was done to protect him and Lucario. When the heroes and Looker get to Clifford Industries, they discover that it was Howard’s intention all along to capture Mewtwo and that Howard was behind his parents's murder. He keeps him locked in a chamber filled with R so that Howard can link his consciousness into Mewtwo’s body. Since Mewtwo has the power to fuse humans and Pokemon while they are all under the influence of R, Howard wants to use this to do it to all of Ryme City’s citizens as a means of evolution. This will be done during a Pokemon Day parade where various balloon floats are filled with R. The parade begins, and the gas is released into the crowds, making all the Pokemon lose their minds. Howard, now in Mewtwo’s body, sets out to fuse everyone with their Pokemon. Lucy, who attempted to get the word out on TV, gets fused with Psyduck, but she finds Pikachu and warns him about what Howard is doing. Meanwhile, Tim, Looker and Lucario finds that “Ms. Norman” is really a genetically altered Ditto that Howard experimented on to replicate humans. The Ditto was also disguised as Roger, while the real Roger was trapped in a closet. Tim, Lucario and Roger work together to stop the Ditto while Tim and Looker runs to stop Howard. Pikachu finds Mewtwo and taps into his powers to unleash lightning powers and destroy the balloon floats, along with the gas. Howard-Mewtwo goes to fight Pikachu, which nearly ends with the villain winning until Pikachu reveals he was just distracting him. Tim, Looker and Lucario then pulls off the device to link Howard’s mind to Mewtwo’s body. Pikachu and Mewtwo fall to the ground, but Mewtwo catches Pikachu. Howard is arrested, and Mewtwo puts everyone back to normal. Roger finds Lucy and asks her to work with him to do a televised news piece while he tries to undo his parents's corruption. After Mewtwo is done, he thanks Tim, Pikachu and Lucario for his help. Mewtwo reveals to both Tim and Pikachu that Lucario was once Kairi's protector, but then Radiant Garden got into a destruction and sent into his parents's car and he tells them she wasn't from them.