Screen Rant

Detective Pikachu has been praised for the designs of its Pokémon. 1 / 8

Sonic the Hedgehog's movie design has been widely criticized... 2 / 8

To the point where the director has promised to have it changed. 3 / 8

Detective Pikachu director Rob Letterman was asked if the Pokémon could've been redesigned like Sonic... 4 / 8

He said it wouldn't work, due to matching the CGI to the live-action. 5 / 8

A change to Pikachu's size would have thrown off Justice Smith's performance. 6 / 8

But Detective Pikachu prepped far in advance to make sure the Pokémon designs were good. 7 / 8

Whereas Sonic the Hedgehog has six months to redesign the title character. 8 / 8