As you're probably already aware, a new Sonic the Hedgehog movie is set to race into theatres this November. Early reactions have been less than positive, with Sonic's appearance causing a good deal of annoyance and even upset amongst fans, but we can now hear what the movie is truly like thanks to early viewings. So is it better than we feared?
Well, it doesn't sound like it. Among the few outlets treated to some early footage of the film at Cinemacon 2019 was IGN, who have shared their thoughts and re-told the story for all to see. Two clips were shown to the media in attendance, and it all sounds pretty ridiculous.
The film reportedly opens with a speeding Sonic charging down a country road while Coolio’s 'Gangsta’s Paradise' plays. He appears to be presented as some sort of alien who has arrived on Earth to save everyone from spaceships in the sky and seems to have rather jokey dialogue throughout. Dr. Robotnik, played by Jim Carrey, is apparently dressed in all-black with a trenchcoat and boots.
IGN has shared a comedic - and dramatic - re-telling of the early footage.
Of course, until we see the full thing with our very own eyes, it's hard to say exactly how this film will turn out. Will it be bad? Will it be so bad that it's actually good? Or will it surprise us and completely win us over? We'll let you decide in the comments.
[source uk.ign.com, via nintendosoup.com]
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Let's face it, it's going to be utterly diabolical and a further stain on Sonics very blemished record.
Hoepfully this enters the "so bad it is hilarious" territory.
This sounds just self-aware enough to be extremely entertaining.
Horrible, but entertaining nonetheless.
"Dr. Robotnik dressed in all-black with a trenchcoat and boots."
So not Dr. Robotnik? Next thing we're gonna find out is that he doesn't have his trademark mustache.
Oscar-worthy
Gangsta’s Paradise ? Why not Straight Outta Compton ? lol
Well, I was never going to get my hopes up that this would be good.
At least the Sonic Boom series was good.
Dr. Robotnik, played by Jim Carrey, is apparently dressed in all-black with a trenchcoat and boots.
Wait, when did the Sonic movie turn into Resident Evil 2?
I thought sonic was supposed to be a failed experiment by Dr robotnik. At least that's what the manual in sonic 1 led me to believe so not a alien lol.
Sounds like ahit.
Update: I may have 'accidentally' hit the 'a' key. I'm not implying it'll be a hit
@TJWorks other sites are reporting that he does indeed have a moustache, though nowhere near as flamboyant and recognisable as the iconic one.
Though they also suggest a second reel was shown that was Robotnik-centric and ends with him looking much more like traditional Robotnik.
It's okay, Dr. Robotnik, everyone goes through a goth stage.
Dr robotnik is going to be the best thing about this entire movie. And that’s not a good sign.
I think IGN’s video is a lot more entertaining than the Sonic film will be.
None of this sounds good might make the Mario film look like the Godfather. Sega really needs to get sime quality control already on all its products and projects.
Oh barf.
If that really is the premise, I'm definitely sitting it out. Sounds as bad as the Mario movie from way back.
Maybe now they point at Super Mario Bros. when they tell the story of the worst video game movie adaption ever made.
@TJWorks Supposedly he doesn't and only grows it at the very end. There's a leaked screencap of him in stache and goggles and looks rather decent actually...but I doubt he's gonna look like that throughout the whole thing.
View at your own discretion:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2204417410/permalink/10156303782517411/
What bothers me is how unwilling they are to just show us the freaking trailers.
It's almost like they're expecting a huge backlash, and their tacit refusal to rip the bandage off isn't going to help them at all.
Tails' Channel has a more in-depth, but less comedic, description of the previews. that breastfeeding joke is newspaper comic level anti-comedy.
Its just going to be another throw away money grab of a movie.
Probably with a bit at the end for a sequel which will never happen, just like the Mario Bros movie
LOL... Well... Hm. It's a movie.
They should have changed the lyrics of Gangsta Paradise to
Been in crap games most my life
Living in a SEGA franchise
Are we sure Uwe Boll wasn't involved in this movie?
I'm going to expect Super Mario Bros level of movie madness. At least it can't be any worse....right.......right???
I think I spoke too soon......
I don't understand the logic behind some changes...
Like.. "We're gonna make a good Sonic movie, a movie that's gonna be fun and crazy as the hedgehog deserve, BUT we will destroy the design of each and every characters so that the fans will feel too alienated to enjoy it! GENIUS!!!!"
Just...just why? Do they really enjoy so much to dissapoint and confuse us?...
When Was This Shown?
@BakaKnight Lets face it they been doing this sort of thing since Super Mario Bros live action.even Bowser was a human and dressed in a black suit nothing like his NES/SNES designs or heck the cartoons
They never learn, it's kinda like they don't want to make a Sonic film... as far as i am concerned this is not a real Sonic film would rather take the fan made one despite that having a bunch of problems of it's own
@KingdomHeartsFan What about the Tomb Raider films?
Oh my god, poor Sonic can't catch a break.
Love the acting from the IGN guy, by the way. The way the mannerisms grow increasingly bleak and robotic as he reads the absurd, fanfiction-level stuff from the impressions is a little stroke of genius.
Sounds pretty funny / good actually. other than whatever lame efforts to look the part by Jim Carrey.. Cant wait to see it Lol X).
@Mdhoover Normally i would argue and say "Have faith" but as an old school Sonic fan who was raised on Sonic 1...i have no faith at all.
@ClassSonicSatAm if your talking about the super mario bros. movie they made, i actually thought the spin they did on it was cool and really liked the movie. at least the special fx were real back then and not the cgi crud we have today. imo, they should make more movies like that, with creativity/imagination in mind, and real special fx props etc, a lot less cgi bs..
This will be a cult classic. As it should.
Sounds like it'll fall into the Super Mario Bros./Street Fighter/Double Dragon camp nicely then.
Its cannon that eggman was never breastfed
Film sounds just as great as the games have always been. Some fun to be had but mostly rubbish ideas and zero vision.
The fact they used Gangsters Paradise instead of Amish Paradise tells you all about the mindset of the creators. They do not understand.
Are they really going with the alien explanation? Again??
Transformers and TMNT weren't enough? Is Bowser an alien too?
Cue to the "aliens" meme
The visual design is an abomination but if the movie is bizarre, experimental, or doesn't play it safe, maybe it'll actually be worth a watch. Give me something weird, Sega. Make it realllly weird. Like Mario Bros movie weird. Invent some strange canon to irritate super fans.
Yay
Now where's my refund?
The Detective Pikachu Chad
The Sonic the Hedgehog Virgin
@Bobb @BakaKnight @bones well, its not like this is the first time sonic has been portrayed as an alien as he was technically an alien throughout most of sonic X
@bones the handbook never mentioned anything about sonic being from a botched eggman experiment, i think your thinking of that old promotional comic
https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(promotional_comic)
@bobb Transformers have been aliens since gen 1 was released back in '84 and have never been portrayed as anything else.
Really would have liked to see that Klonoa movie happened.
Oh, man...
This is going to be SO bad...
Crazy!? Crazy means not boring. Crazy means either really good or atrociously bad. I'm excited now.
I seriously wonder what Hollywood writers are thinking when they sit down to work on these scripts.
I still want to see a trailer before deciding if I want to see this or not. May just have fun with the movie like I usually do with live action/CGI movies, even if it's not like the games obviously.
@Shadowmoon522 Honestly I was refering to the literal design of the characters XD
Sonic look... we all know how...and Robotnik's description in the article sounds no good either (so much so that the only reason I still hold some hope for the character is because of Jim Carrey playing him.)
Althought I'll admit the "alien" thing bother me too, I don't remember Sonic X, but I'll be very surprised if the movie have any concept similar to an anime instead then some classic boring Hollywood's alien backstory saw in a thrillion movies.
@bones What region’s Sonic 1 manual implies this? I have the US game, and I just googled the story synopsis from the Japanese version - neither mentions this at all.
@martynstuff haha, should have left the comment sans update
We're going to need some Sonic CD-level time travel to stop this disaster.
blinks stupidly I think my braincells just got fried reading that.
@BlueKnight07 Before or after they start dropping acid?
Five Nights At Sonic's
@BakaKnight sonic X basically starts off with the chaos emeralds going out of control and stranding sonic eggman & various others on a different earth. since they we're not from the same planet they technically counted as aliens
@Shadowmoon522 I thought I missed some "revelation" episode of the space saga when you mentioned Sonic X, but if you mean that then it's very relatively to use the "alien" term.
Personally I wouldn't call beings from an alternative earth aliens, anyway if that's what the movie mean as alien I would be fine.
But that's really wishful thinking, I doubt they'll use such a working backstory when they can use the generic boring "it came from an unknown planet X".
@AlexOlney I dont mind self aware humor. The best season of Power Rangers (RPM) has great humor of that type. I just hope that they fix the Sonic character model before the November release. Only then will I be willing to try the movie.
@imgrowinglegs But I am sure i remember it was.I was around at the time, but sure i heard it from somewhere maybe my memory is wrong.
@Travisemo007 But it had nothing to do with the Mario games it's meant to be based on, remove the name Mario, and this could of been any film. besides bob hoskins who said this was the worst thing he ever worked on this film a total train wreak.
They already got it right with the anime film version of Super Mario Bros in 1986 so you have to remember they only had the first NES game to work with, none of the great stuff they had by the time Super Mario World/SNES was out, and it still tells a better story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWUHkOyhR-M
Pokemon did it with anime films which were awesome and matched the games so why can't Nintendo just do that for Mario or Zelda?
Nintendo really needs to re release that 1986 anime film
@Tempestryke Good question...I just know the acid ain't helping lol.
@KayFiOS LOL, at first when I saw that picture, my mind interpreted it as Drax wearing a trenchcoat for some reason... xD
But anyway, yeahh.... Hopefully the trailers get released soon so we can get this over with. If the movie is any good, then they're doing a piss-poor job with the marketing for it. What they really should've done was just not say anything about the movie, not release that "video poster teaser" at all, and release the full trailers when they were ready to be shown (preferably sooner than this, it seems like they're dragging their feet with the release of these trailers).
Better yet, they should've just made it a fully-animated film from the get-go. The filmmakers placed an automatic complication in their whole creative process by insisting that it be live-action-- something that literally NOBODY expects out of a Sonic the Hedgehog film.
@BlueKnight07 It'd probably be the only way to enjoy this trainwreck of a film. XD
My personal confidence in this film isn't high. From what I've seen, everyone else's confidence in it isn't too high either.
That being said, it does not mean I won't be willing to give it a chance. It's unfortunately become uniform in popular culture to be heavily judgemental of something before it ever really gets its chance to grow (I'd know, I'm part of the heaping mess of salt and toxic waste that is the Star Wars fandom).
So even though my hopes aren't high, I encourage you - give Sonic the Hedgehog a chance. It may end up being a better movie than we're all poising it to be. Detective Pikachu could be a terrible movie and we all don't know it yet (I hope not, that movie looks AMAZING).
Don't jump to conclusions based on a small part of something's content before you see the greater chunks of it.
@BakaKnight well, all they really have to do is state that the movie takes place on earth and state that sonic comes from a planet called mobius and you got yourself an alien sonic without any real reason for fans to bitch about it.
besides, we've already got shadow running around as a failed science project with alien blood in his veins for years. its too late for the sonic fanbase to really be bitching about any absurdities, but the fanbase will still go on about it.
hell, one of the best parts of sonic boom was how often the fanbase was outright mocked for their bitching.
really hope Nintendo pays close attention to this for the upcoming Mario movie .
This is going to be a trainwreck.
@ClassSonicSatAm i disagree but ok.
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