Sonic Movie Sequel is in the works

[TigerClaw]

New behind the scenes clip about Knuckles.

[ZariusTwo]

Ken Penders causing a stir on twitter, claiming his Echidna backstories were used in the movie without his permission

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Ken Penders causing a stir on twitter, claiming his Echidna backstories were used in the movie without his permission

Aren't his Echidnas basically the Romulans from Star Trek? Because I didn't see any of that in this movie.

[The Deadman]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Ken Penders causing a stir on twitter, claiming his Echidna backstories were used in the movie without his permission

This dude wants to remain relevant, doesnt he.

[oldmanwinters]

I saw the movie Thursday night, and REALLY liked it!

[TigerClaw]

Saw it earlier today, It was awesome, Bring on Sonic Movie 3, They put so much love with the source material.

I saw it at the 11am showing, Even had my Sonic Movie 2 shirt.

[Turo602]

Saw Sonic last night. Just as terrible as the first. At least 2/3rds of it. Still don't care for Jim Carrey as Eggman, but it does kinda help seeing him at least sport Eggman's ridiculous look, though his jokes here still fall flat. Most of the jokes in the movie fall flat. Sonic is still a stupid child with ADHD and Knuckles sounds like he's mentally retarded which caught me off guard but he's at least a lot more in character than Sonic is. Tails on the other hand is absolutely flawless but nobody likes Tails so that's a shame.

I have to give credit to the third act though. From Knuckles and Jim Carrey running through the old ruins (which btw, why the f*ck couldn't Eggman just fly over the maze and traps in his f*cking machine?) all the way to the big battle at the end, I actually found myself enjoying the film. The less cringey human bullsh*t the better. The whole film feels like it was actually trying to minimize the human aspect by separating Sonic and Tom at the beginning which would have been great if they didn't keep cutting back to that stupid wedding.

It even becomes important to Sonic's story in the dumbest way possible and turns into an overly long Sonicless cringe fest. And then there was this unnecessarily drawn out dance off scene that just wasn't funny and served as another excuse to shoehorn music into the film which it does quite a lot and has become really grating to me after I noticed how often music gets abused for humor or "hip" appeal in kids' films no matter how out of place it is. Even Free Guy, which my niece was watching the other day had some stupid song playing literally every 5 minutes like it couldn't just shut the f*ck up for a bit. I give MCU sh*t for always cramming in a joke every 5 minutes to keep idiots' attention, but this use of music is easily the worst.

But those last 20 minutes or so were pretty solid, unnecessary Jim Carrey jokes and forced Tom stuff aside. The dire situation made this version of Sonic much more tolerable as he wasn't all ADHD for a good while and the big moment, while really cool, was short-lived. The mid-credits scene was really cool too. There was a decent Sonic movie in this mess somewhere but they fumbled it. Though I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy seeing Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails on film together which will only get more interesting going forward.

As a huge Sonic fan, there's definitely a part of me that's excited to see where this goes despite how awful they've went about making this all happen. Hmm, so this is what it was like being a Transformers fan? I predict we'll get a spin-off film at some point which I think they should definitely do and might even stall the third film enough to give themselves time to work out the whole Jim Carrey situation. Though, he could have been bullsh*tting about retiring just to get more interest on the movie.

[drgon78]

I saw the movie on Thursday, really enjoyed it, can't wait for the 3rd.

[oldmanwinters]

I even loved the stupid jokes, because of the delivery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZshUrPdsisM

I was surprised Knuckles never glided in the film. There were a couple of big opportunities when it would have made sense. He did a little cliff climbing with max effort. Guess he has to work hard for his powers.

[DarkFell]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Ken Penders causing a stir on twitter, claiming his Echidna backstories were used in the movie without his permission

Really? I didn't see any bio-mechanical bits coming out from those echidna tribesmen. Yeah, I cheated and watched a few spoilers from the movie.

(For anyone that avoided the Archie comics, The Dark Legion resembled Borg echidnas. The few normal echidnas were average looking.)

So far, I read some mixed critiques concerning the sequel. I haven't seen the first movie, but I might give in if I see a copy for a good price.

[Zulithe]

Saw it in Dolby Cinema... I liked it although with a lot of caveats, but it's a family movie that's not trying to be fine art so all of the flaws were pretty expected. Just gonna boil it down to some bullet points

* Love everything Sonic, Robotnik, Knuckles
* Tails is one of my favorite characters, and while they played it safe by picking the established voice actor for the character to make sure they nailed the voice, he was underdeveloped and underused compared to the other new character, Knuckles. For me, that was a shame. But he does get some nice moments.
* Love most of the plot that involves the sonic characters, the chaos emerald, the temple/dungeon/maze and the final encounter.
* HATED the dance off... worst part of the movie. Ultra cringe. And the stuff with Tails after the dance-off felt a bit rushed and forced, that entire sequence could have been handled way better, particularly if they chose to have them do JUST ABOUT ANYTHING OTHER THAN A CRINGY DANCE-OFF in order to grow closer.
* Could not tolerate the marriage subplot, particularly the segment after the Bride is shunned and we have to watch her go on revenge for the next 15 minutes. Keep that **** OUT of part 3 for the love of GOD. I don't blame the actress here, she's obviously having fun with it. But honestly... nobody cares. Please let these characters go away.
* sad that Jim likely will not return for 3 due to his retirement plans. Yeah he said he COULD return for other projects, but it sounds like he only wants to do stuff that he feels is important. AKA probably not Sonic 3

Biggest problem as we move into Sonic 3 which is clearly going to happen... well, without Jim there is a huge freaking hole in this franchise and they have to fill it with someone as likeable which is gonna be hard.

[TigerClaw]

The movie now has 135 reviews and went back up to 69% on Rotten Tomatoes.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sonic_the_hedgehog_2

[FredWolfLeonardo]

I saw the film around a week ago since my friends invited me to come along. Interestingly, I haven't seen the first film at all outside of the clip of the Owl backstory on Youtube and the trailers, but I felt that I didn't need to see it in order to understand this one.

Film was pretty good. Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Eggman all just carried the movie on their own.

My only complaint was that the movie was much longer than it needed to be. If all the uneccesary scenes like the wedding and the coffee shop were cut down, I feel that the movie could've been around 90 minutes long and not lost anything of value since I assume that nobody cares about the human characters.

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

The movie now has 135 reviews and went back up to 69% on Rotten Tomatoes.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sonic_the_hedgehog_2

And it drops to 40% when you click the "top critics" button. Quite steep, ain't it?

[ranger_scout]

I thought the sequel was fantastic and extremely entertaining. It could've been even better than the first movie I loved all of the references to many of the past video games like how Sonic isn't the best when it comes to being on top of or underwater. The friendship between Sonic and Tails was very sweet as usual.

Spoiler:

The way that Sonic convinced Knuckles that Dr. Robotnick/Eggman was never his friend and explained what true friendship was all about was very well-done. I also really enjoyed how the three of them worked together in the final battle and I was so excited when Sonic became Super Sonic.

The moment Shadow appeared in the mid-credits I said "I knew it" to the audience. I just had a hunch that was where the story for the next movie would be heading.

I hope I can take my brother to see it over the Easter weekend. He will really enjoy it.

[CyberCubed]

Guys it's a Sonic movie, not Citizen Kane. For a movie based on a videogame the fact that most think it's good or entertaining is great in itself. We have had way too many horrible videogame movies. A fun kids movie is all Sonic has to be, and it seems like it succeeded.

[Turo602]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Guys it's a Sonic movie, not Citizen Kane. For a movie based on a videogame the fact that most think it's good or entertaining is great in itself. We have had way too many horrible videogame movies. A fun kids movie is all Sonic has to be, and it seems like it succeeded.

It didn't. People love garbage and that's exactly what this movie was. When the kids who enjoyed these films grow up, they're gonna realize how f*cking awful these movies were with their wasted potential. Unless they grow up to be those weirdos on pedophile watchlists who never mature and just consume garbage with a smile on their face because the kiddos enjoy it.

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by Turo602

It didn't. People love garbage and that's exactly what this movie was. When the kids who enjoyed these films grow up, they're gonna realize how f*cking awful these movies were with their wasted potential. Unless they grow up to be those weirdos on pedophile watchlists who never mature and just consume garbage with a smile on their face because the kiddos enjoy it.

Stay gold, Ponyboy.

When I retire from this place I do believe you will be a most worthy successor. The Azrael to my Batman, as it were.

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Turo602

Unless they grow up to be those weirdos on pedophile watchlists who never mature and just consume garbage with a smile on their face because the kiddos enjoy it.

[The Deadman]

Welp

https://www.ign.com/articles/sonic-2...ever-in-the-us