![]() ![]() The buddy aspect of the first movie is only repeated - sort of - in the form of the little dual-tailed fox, Tails, joining Sonic on his quest this time, with a bit of a role reversal-Tails being the fish out of water and Sonic being his hapless guide. But the absence of human friends is probably largely an opportunity for Sonic to be introduced to new, yet more familiar, ones. His friendship with Tom is partly what makes the first Sonic as good as it is, and for Sonic 2, Marsden is pushed off to Hawaii to attend a wedding while the blue speedster is left vulnerable to a Robotnik attack at home. However, it comes very much at the cost of sidelining Sonic's human friends, particularly James Marsden's Tom. From the start, Carrey's Robotnik has more screentime, and as a fan of Carrey myself, I definitely loved this. When an encounter with another Sonic-like extraordinary creature named Knuckles (voiced by Idris Elba) helps him reach home, he sets out to find an ultimate power source and hopefully defeat his blue hedgehog foe in the process. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 opens with the now-bald, bushy-mustached villain surviving on the planet, attempting to make his way back to Earth. ![]() The first Sonic ended with Jim Carrey's zany villain, Dr Robotnik, being banished to a mushroom planet. The inevitable - and welcomed - Sonic the Hedgehog 2 comes two years after the first one made a successful debut (just before the world went on lockdown), which also means that the sequel had to be filmed during the uncertainty of a "global pandemic." The end result is good continuation of the first film that takes great strides to avoid a retread of the first movie while trying to maintain some of the things that made the first outing so enjoyable. And, even more surprisingly, the movie has held up with repeat viewings. ![]() Thankfully, Sonic the Hedgehog ended up being a fun buddy comedy for the whole family that actually made a good movie out of a video game - something that is truly rare. Even after the movie was pushed back from November 2019 to February 2020 to allow for a complete redesign of Sonic's live action animated likeness, people still didn't expect much from the movie. I think it's fair to say that no one expected much from the first Sonic the Hedgehog movie that released in 2020. Movie Reviews (Main) > Movie Reviews (Main).Indie Reviews (Main) > Indie Reviews (Main). ![]()
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