solarhorse
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My line of thinking is that movies that are targeted at children don't always have to cost that much (unless we're looking at a well established studio like Pixar who can afford to spend more on production) because big, expensive spectacle isn't necessarily what's needed to satisfy young children. Look at the Paddington movies, the Lego movies or the movies from Illumination studios. Though they use 3D animation in some capacity, they're not very expensive to make, yet they still manage to find enough success for subsequent movies. In the case of Detective Pikachu, it's obvious that they need some of the expense to craft the world of Pokemon (and rightly so, Ryme city is a wonder to behold), but if such a large amount of effort is going to be made, a wider net is going to have to be cast to included audiences who are older and aren't normally interested in Pokemon.
That's understandable. I just think that the medium of animation can allow for so much creativity outside of what the annual movies usually aim for. Personally, I'd love to see what Pokemon would look like in a more experimental style of animation, and I'd like to think that such a film could find a niche alongside the established Pokemon movies.
