Elementary, my dear Pikachu

DETECTIVE PIKACHU

A decent-enough frivolity to waste 104 minutes with, and apparently I had more fun with it than I thought.

2019
Directed by Rob Letterman

Written by holy cow, that's a lot of people to write a Pokémon movie

Spoiler alert: Slightly higher than moderate

A shocker on shock street

GOOSEBUMPS

Zippy and weird, Goosebumps is every bit as great as you could ever hope a family-friendly horror-comedy based on 62 individual books to possibly be—and, heck, now that I spell it out like that, I suppose it's actually even better.

2015

Directed by Rob Letterman

Written by Darren Lemke, Scott Alexander, and Larry Karaszewski (based on the books by R.L. Stine)

With Dylan Minnette (Zach), Amy Smart (Gale), Jillian Bell (Lorraine), Odeya Rush (Hannah), Ryan Lee (Champion), and Jack Black (R.L. Stine)

Spoiler alert: moderate, bordering on high