Box office estimates currently have the movie looking at a domestic opening weekend of $82 million.
In absolute numbers, that’s a solid effort, even if it still might mean coming in second to the third weekend of Avengers: Endgame, which is currently still a possibility.
For those that have been waiting their entire lives for a live-action Pokemon movie, however, this film is almost certainly “critic proof.”
The only question is just how big that fan base is.