![]() ![]() ![]() Plus, it has the ever-popular potty humor. Even with all the explosions, there’s no real damage. For kids, Sonic is a loyal and forgiving friend and an engaging character who may create a mess when his “parents” are away, but super-speedily cleans it up before they find out about it. There is also lot of mayhem for a movie aimed at younger children, including a scary giant robot and many explosions.īut there’s enough to keep kids and parents mildly entertained. The coffee shop section, even with the always-great Adam Pally, should have been skipped. The movie’s frequent references to other films are not commentary or homage, just winking at the audience: “Yes, we know we’re appropriating details from better movies.” It is over-plotted, with three different storylines mixing comedy and adventure. ![]() ![]() There’s nothing especially creative here. Meanwhile, Sonic has dispatched Tom and Maddie off to Hawaii via a gold portal ring for the wedding of Maddie’s sister Rachel (a terrific Natasha Rothwell) to handsome Randall ( Shemar Moore). I’d want to check out the Yelp reviews before trying any place called The Mean Bean, but somehow customers have to be scared off with an F rating from the Board of Health to give Stone privacy to turn it back into an ultra-high-tech base of operations. Meanwhile, Robotnik’s sidekick Stone ( Lee Majdoub) is running a coffee shop and waiting to get back to doing evil. Robotnik ( Jim Carrey, behind a mustache broader than a pair of football shoulder pads) was exiled to a mushroom planet at the end of the first film for trying to use Sonic as a power source, but he is brought back to earth by someone else looking for Sonic, a space echidna named Knuckles ( Idris Elba), who packs a punch.Īs per the games, Robotnik and Sonic are soon off in search of an all-powerful emerald. Following the events of the first film, he now lives with a human couple, Tom the “Donut Lord” ( James Marsden) and Maddie ( Tika Sumpter), whose relationship with him is about one-quarter friendship, three-quarters parental. So a bunch of human characters and storylines have been added and Sonic (voiced by Ben Schwartz) has been given more of a personality. Sonic also has some portal-opening rings given to him by his late guardian and teacher, the owl-like Longclaw.īut movies need more character, dialogue, and plot than video games. Ivo Robotnik to the special power emeralds with the assistance of his best pal Tails ( Colleen O'Shaughnessey), a two-tailed fox who is a gadget whiz. In the games, he overcomes various obstacles to beat evil Dr. Also stay for the credits if you're a fan of a franchise.What game Sonic doesn’t have is characteristics beyond speed and determination or a plot beyond the basic quest. This is just as good if not better than the first one. Same thing with Uncharted I just think critics are way too hard on these video game movies because of the stigma around them. This is a sonic movie! Why would they not be using elements from the games that are related to sonic if it's a sonic movie? That's ridiculous. Every complaint that I've seen about this movie they are saying that this is a cash grab for sonic. Other than that I really like that I really don't understand why critics are so hard on this franchise. I just don't get why they won't make a movie about the characters from the game themselves and not try and add a bunch of side human characters to further along a less interesting plot. It's not perfect, or some things with the human characters that are pretty boring and obnoxious. I also felt like the rivalry between sonic and knuckles really worked and you can tell that there was a lot of animosity between the characters which was the point of their rivalry. The addition of the other video game characters and only make this 1000 times more entertaining than the first one. For me personally I felt like this was one of the better video game movies I have ever seen. I'm genuinely confused on why critics are going out of their way to try and review these films as if they were trying to be Gone with the Wind. ![]()
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