Other mistake: The Psyduck is technically incapable of defending the group against the Quajutsus. Regardless of which psychic attack Psyduck uses, Quajutsu is immune to it because of its typing (water/dark).
Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)
Directed by: Rob Letterman
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Kathryn Newton, Suki Waterhouse, Rob Delaney
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Suggested correction: As an adaptation, the movie is allowed to bend the rules of the game. Furthermore, just because they're strong against psychic-type attacks in the game doesn't mean they'll be completely unaffected or totally immune, especially given how powerful his attack is.
Other mistake: At the beginning, when Tim arrives in Ryme City, a Sneasel is visible with its ears on the wrong sides.
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Suggested correction: As an adaptation, the movie is allowed to alter the design of characters and creatures from the games. It doesn't need to stay 100% consistent with the game, and thus, this cannot be considered a mistake. Other Pokémon in the movie similarly have minor cosmetic changes. Furthermore, you could also easily chalk this up to the Pokémon's genetics simply being different. Natural variation or mutations happen sometimes in species, and it's canon in Pokémon that some of them have different forms or look different even if they're the same species. (Ex. I have a number of the same Pokémon that all look completely different in Pokémon Go.)
Other mistake: In the beginning of the movie, Mewtwo is escaping the laboratory. He blows up his surroundings, then shoots up out of the containment chamber. Later in the movie, Tim and Pikachu see a holographic flashback of that same moment. Although in the hologram, Dr. Laurent is directly in front of the chamber when she wasn't in the beginning of the film.
Trivia: The "old gangster movie" that's on the TV in Harry's apartment is the fictional movie "Angels with Filthy Souls," which was seen in the movie "Home Alone." The director wanted a detective movie for the scene, and said: "We needed something and I hadn’t figured out what I was going to put on that TV yet...Just as a laugh, we got the movie that they shot for Home Alone off of YouTube...We could never beat it!"
Trivia: There's a reference to the artificially-created Pokemon Mewtwo having escaped "twenty years ago." This is a bit of an inside joke, as the film was in production exactly twenty years after the release of the animated movie "Mewtwo Strikes Back," and that film deals with what happens after Mewtwo was created and escaped captivity.
More trivia for Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Detective Pikachu: Maybe she can tell us about the long-term psychological effects of being strapped to a baby seat... next to a bomb!
Detective Pikachu: Have you ever talked to a woman before?
Tim Goodman: I've talked to women before!
Detective Pikachu: When was that, in the the birth canal?
Detective Pikachu: Oh, that's a twist. That is very twisty.
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