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of the most controversial movie of 2019 that eventually became a 2020 movie due
to its controversy that's Sonic the Hedgehog directed by first-timer Jeff
Fowler starring Jim Carrey and James Marsden and Ben Schwartz as the voice of
Sonic as you know Sonic the Hedgehog is a beloved Sega character he's basically
Sega's Mario and in this film Sonic is residing in the small town of Green
Hills where James Marsden is a police officer and when the government discovers
Sonic they deployed dr.Robotnik played by Carrie to track him down I think
everyone on this platform that talks about movies at some point has referenced
how terrible the original character design as this is a rather unprecedented
event so many people complained about how awful that character design was that
they actually fixed it now usually I wouldn't really condone that type of thing
I don't like the idea that we have that much power over artists but in this the small case I will say that we were right wow that was really bad but they fixed
it sonic looks a lot better now but does character design make a movie
absolutely not so how was this film first I should probably make it clear this
character is important to me I do like these games a lot and I played them
quite often when I was younger when my mom used to go toechmiadzin assist kiosk
there and I would usually spend most of the time while she shopped for
groceries playing NBA Jam and Sonic the Hedgehog those are fond memories but
I've always been more of a Nintendo PlayStation guy but now that Nintendo does
stuff with Sega I can still play Sonic the Hedgehog games on my switch whenever
they release new ones so I had my fingers crossed that the film would at least
present Sonic as the character in good light have it actually be like him in
the movie and gratefully he is I don't see any Sonic fans leaving this movie
disappointed with the portrayal of Sonic I think that Sonic in this movie is
great the voice work for him is really good too and I liked his interplay with
James Marsden, it was actually kind of sweet by no means is this a great movie
but
I think as a sonic movie it's about as good as I could expect it to be I
feel kind of about this the same way I felt about the detective Pikachu movie I
went into that film knowing pretty much what I was going to get and I got it
and it was made well and they seemed to honor the character at least in that
form of Pikachu and this film is exactly that it's pretty much what I expected
there's not a lot of surprises but I had fun along the way if I were to really
start over-analyzing this movie the way I look at other films that are made for
adults, only I think that would be rather pointless this film is aimed at
pleasing younger audiences while also making the family have a good time as
well and it does that but the film doesn't pander to kids either it doesn't
treat kids like they're stupid you can tell they actually cared especially since
they spent all that money and time to redesign Sonic after they realized that
fans didn't like it that shows you that there is a level of dedication to
making sure that fans are pleased and Jeff Fowler the director is trying to
make a competent film this by no means feels like a cash-grab movie it doesn't
feel like they're taking Sonic and just cashing in on his popularity they did
try to make an entertaining movie the kids and adults can enjoy now at the same the time I've not shied away from criticizing kids movies before I mean just last a year playing with fire was an absolute disaster although I loved watching it
that film felt so corporate and so spat out of a machine it didn't feel like
there was any energy or passion to it while this film is admittedly extremely
cliche and has a lot of familiar tropes and as I said no surprises at all it
does feel like they cared while making it feels like they were trying to
make a film that people could genuinely have a love for and I could see a lot
of young kids really enjoying this movie and having fond memories when they get
older thinking about seeing it for the first time Jim Carrey I have to talk
about that man I have loved him forever ever since good old Ace Ventura this
feels like 90sJim Carrey he's having a blast in this movie as dr. Robotnik and
if you look at his character and say wow he's really over the top a this is Jim
Carrey what the hell did you expect be familiarize yourself with the source
material dr.Robotnik is by no means a quiet person who sits in the corner there
is there's no other way that this character should be portrayed
I described Jim
Kay portrayal of him to one of my friends who really love Batman forever by
the way as a slightly more tame version of Jim Carrey's The Riddler and I mean
that as a compliment it was really nice to see Jim Carrey just being manic and crazy
in this film that was a really nice thing to see James Marsden is pretty good
he plays his role just fine I actually had no problem with any of the human
characters which are weird because usually when you have a film with a character
like Sonic they have this thing Hollywood wants to always belike you have to
have all these people and you're like well you could just have him like with
Tails and Knuckles and just throw them into their kind of universe but they
always want to put people and usually, I hate it The Smurfs films for example
but that didn't bother me in this movie and I think it's because Jim Carrey
maintains that insanity throughout his entire performance and so he never was
that annoying villain they cut back to he was enjoyable to watch and the movie
is fairly sonic centered and so it didn't really feel like the humans were overshadowing
him in some way let's talk about some negatives though because there are
certainly, some for one if you don't care about Sonic if you've never played any
of the Sonic games if you have no connection to this character emotionally
whatsoever you're probably not going to like this movie as much as if you were
a fan but I think that's pretty self-explanatory so naturally, I'm probably
going to like this movie more than you if you don't give a shit about Sonic in
that case you probably wouldn't really see the movie anyway so I don't really
think that necessarily applies as I said the movie has a lot of clichés and
tropes there are storylines that are forgotten entirely for one JamesMarsden's
character is suddenly viewed as a domestic terrorist when he goes on the lam
with Sonic this is on the news it's like a big thing and yet he's able to go
into buildings and walk around in public and nobody sees him nobody's after him
except for dr. Robotnik who seems to have complete control to do whatever he
wants permission from the government to blow up highways and it's kind of
hilarious if you really start to think about what's happening the resolution
for the domestic terrorism thing you know without getting into spoilers is
laughable they literally treat it kind of like a joke and it just feels like
hey forget about that thing
I know we said he was a domestic terrorist I know
his face is on the news and people are like after him and stuff but like it didn't
happen it's fine and you have to wonder like how did that get resolved because
what you see happens towards the end doesn't seem to really resolve anything
for that subplot, it's just kind of thrown away it was like used to build
tension throughout the movie but then they don't use it throughout two movie
except for one scene where he sees his face on the news I also want to talk
about product placement, this movie has some very obscene uses of it one a character who is looking for a new place to live says I found these Apartments
on Zillow and then you get a close-up of the Zillow website with apartments it
felt like a commercial but I think the big one that will be on most people's
minds are Olive Garden you know when I think is Sonic the Hedgehog I just want
some Italian pasta that's always what's on my mind I actually wrote this down
so I wouldn't forget there's a scene where James Marsden has his phones I was perfect
he has his phone he's like I don't have that many apps on my phone except for
Olive Garden cuz you know when you're there you're family, oh but that's not the
end of Olive Garden there's even a scene where a military man says have you
tried their never-ending pasta bowl it ends not since Michael Bay Transformers the movie have I seen such obvious product placement in a movie but you know it
came and went and I forgot about it and no one's really gonna care it's just funny
that that they went to all that trouble to have Olive Garden as a sponsor I
wonder if I can go get some pasta right now and tell him I saw Sonic and get
like 20% off my meal do have my ticket stub I wonder if that's real look it's
really easy to poke a hole in this movie if you really wanted to and there's
certainly, things, as I've just mentioned that you know kind of, made me roll my
eyes but I think the movie did its job it's going to please Sonic fans it's
certainly better than most video game movies without a doubt this movie
actually made me think about video game movies I'd love to see one of the
biggest ones are Metal Gear Solid I know that's in development right now but
Metal Gear Solid has a lot of potential as a movie but the one that I am still
to this day hocked hasn't happened is Metroid Metroid movie would be so so
fucking awesome if they get it right they got it wrong I'd riot but
I would
love to see a good Metroid movie and this is a good step in the right direction
I'm gonna give Sonic the Hedgehog a beat I was actually surprised by the fact
that this movie wasn't too bad at all it's perfectly fine families are gonna
love it it's a decent family movie it's gone tissues script-wise and stuff but
you know there's this weird paradox now where there are these 30-somethings who
are seeing these movies who are excited to see them who have to kind of sit
back and remember you know like yeah this is made for us sort of but it's also
made for today's kids and did the ydo an okay job you know what they kind of
fucking did okay you have to like accept that and move on and move on to Olive
Garden guys thank you so much as always for look forward to more reviews very
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