![]() ![]() Hilarity also ensued.) So, who is Sonic The Hedgehog for?Ī film like this has two choices. (Fun fact: Marsden’s literally performed this very role before in 2011’s Hop in which he befriends a quippy CGI Easter Bunny-in-training voiced by Russell Brand. One day he runs so fast he causes a mass power outage, so Jim Carrey’s machine loving evil genius Dr Robotnik is tasked by the government to hunt him down for reasons I either a) can not remember or b) was never shown so then Sonic teams up with Tom, a nice guy cop played by a distractingly fake-tanned, mentally-barely present James Marsden. After being warped via a gold ring (hey kids, remember those? Sonic loves rings!) Sonic now lives hidden in the quiet Middle American town of Green Hills. Well, first let’s explore the plot: Sonic is an alien who's been sent to Earth and has to hide the fact he can run fast because a dying owl who raised him on his home planet told him so (?). So was it all really worth getting so worked up about in the first place? The backlash was so strong that director Jeff Fowler took to Twitter to announce a complete redesign.įast forward to the February 2020 release of the film: Sonic’s look is adjusted to actually look like Sonic (bombshell). Worse, the original Japanese designers who created Sonic were reportedly not ‘super into’ Tinsel Town’s treatment of their spiky First Son. In May 2019, the trailer was released online and within moments the web erupted with unanimous, seismic furor at the reveal of the titular hedgehog’s debut IRL lewk. In forgoing the ‘easy route’, they created a Sonic that even the most supportive of mothers would best describe as: “.interesting”. ![]() ![]() It hasn’t left my brain for the last 72 hours.Įarly on in the production process, the filmmakers behind Sonic The Hedgehog famously decided that rather than create a 1:1 screen-worthy translation of the instantly recognisable blue speedster and then just add some ‘realistic’ furry texture ( Detective Pikachu style), they would be conjuring up their own design. Sonic The Hedgehog (2020), the cinematic experience, can best be described as ‘definitely a movie that people made’.Īt once, it’s an extremely predictable, easily forgettable paint-by-numbers odd couple/buddy cop/roadtrip number that simultaneously borders on ‘wow, this is so batshit it’s good!’. ![]()
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