It's Official: The Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Is Getting A Sequel

Not surprised, it was only a matter of time that they would be making a sequel. The movie was so good!

Very excited, despite how obvious of a sequel was planned!
But, eh, let's tone the product placement way the heck back.

It was a fun movie, and Jim Carrey did an awesome Robotnik. It's good to know they're making a new one, hopefully more into the Sonic world than the real world.

Strange that Sonic movies are happening as I’m in my 30’s and not in my beboppin’ Genesis days

@gloom agreed, and not just because you are my favourite Pokémon!
I loved the movie so much, way more than I expected.

Good, I hate cliffhanger endings.

Yeah I think most people saw this coming. If it weren’t for the pandemic this first probably would’ve made twice what it did.

@KingBowser86 yes, please.

Will be there (hopefully in the theater) to watch it. We enjoyed the first so no problem giving a sequel a chance!

just have Rodger Craig Smith as Sonic please

Nice. Great movie, especially by video game adaptation standards.

I'm hoping they have the guts to keep the look Carrey donned in the end. Once he pulled his goggles down he looked so CORRECT.

Also how do we get a petition started for the sequel to be called not "Sonic 2," but instead "Sonic & Tails?" That way when we get to a third movie it can be called... 😁😁😁

With a bigger budget, I'd like them to shy away from the family friendly jokes. But I'm just glad we are getting a sequel!

Huh, I didn't think so many kids still liked Sonic.

I thought it was some kind of fabrication or rumor since the director said he didn't want to rush right away into a sequel. Guess that's wrong now.

It better have cream in it or I riot

@0rwellians0n I haven't seen it but that's what this situation sounds like to me.

It's probably "good" for video game movie standards but average overall.

Who knows, maybe the sequel will be better.

@0rwellians0n -or how about we celebrate the fact the movie, like Detective Pikachu, didn't out fall into the "So-Bad-Its-Good" or "This sucks!" category.

We all thought it was going to blow before it came out. They proved us wrong. That's a reason to be positive. So how about you stop being a downer, ya jerk?

@Elvie I saw it. It was a very formulaic action/buddy movie, but it was still enjoyable. Whether it's being judged as a "video game movie" or just a movie, I thought it was fairly decent.

I knew it.
As i saw Tails appeared on the Credit roll, i assumed it will have a sequel.

@0rwellians0n mediocre is better than awful

cough cough every other video game movie ever made cough cough

As someone who never cared too much about Sonic in general (except Miles Prower, he is so dang cool), I really enjoyed the movie.

However, my daughter really likes Sonic, so we are both excited!

@TheFox Well, I'm kinda glad it wasn't a total dumpster fire but at the same time, I hope this movie series doesn't end up influencing the direction and tone of the games considering the somewhat fragile state they're in right now. Especially since the recent games have been suffering from lame, goofy writing and this film's popularity might just validate that to continue.

Plus, we don't need to have SEGA make rushed, last minute adjustments to the next Sonic game just because a different Sonic property did well (i.e. Classic Sonic being thrown in Forces to cash in on Mania's success).

@0rwellians0n you say it awful then say its mediocre.

I'm not surprised this movie was such a big hit. I mean, it wasn't a good movie, but at least it wasn't one of those movies then panders you with an agenda. Kinda sad if you think about.

Hope it's a weird-as-hell, fun-as-hell, multi-planet road trip which doubles as a hunt for the Chaos Emeralds by Sonic & Tails. (Knux too, of course.) A big-budget, Sega-blue-sky-perfect representation of the whole of the Mobius Galaxy, from Green Hill... Planet (?) to the mighty Death Egg. Badniks, echindas, blue spheres... you name it, I want it there.

First one, as good as it was, still felt kinda... safe. Almost like the execs were holding it back on purpose. This time around I hope Paramount gives them a stupid amount of cash and lets Fowler and Co. do whatever they like - as if anyone's earned the right to do so, it's them. Best cast scenario, it builds upon and outclasses the first one in a way not seen since Aliens way back when. Worst case scenario, it'll be the most entertaining train wreck in years. There's no way it winds up in between - and, either way, I'm there day 1.

The foundations are established. The audience is pumped. So Paramount, I have one simple request: Go. All. Out.

(And keep Collen Villard as Tails. Tom Holland need not apply.)

Cool I'd watch it. Bring on the chaos emeralds.

Nice to hear. I mean it obviously wasn’t incredible but it was surprisingly pretty solid. I had fun and enjoyed it a lot. Bring it on!

Remind me to post spoilers everywhere in comment sections next time i see a film, that's what most people do nowadays since it's the cool thing to do right?

@Benhop07 tomb raider(Alicia vikander version) and detective pikachu weren't awful imo. They weren't... great, but they were better than mediocre.

If you include 2d animated movies the last two Pokémon movies were surprisingly good.(I admit I might be biased bc I'm a Pokémon fan, but still)

So this celebration of mediocrity gets a sequel after four months yet we still can't get Galaxy 3 after ten years? Bruh

@0rwellians0n From my experience, it's best not to let 'em get the best of you

@0rwellians0n
Please let other peoples get excited by Sonic movie sequel.
Keep your salty opinion far away from me and other users here.
And it was very impolite to reply the users here and told them how horrible was the Sonic movie.

SEGA does what Nintendon't, which in this case, is teasing a sequel at the end of their movie, and actually getting a sequel!

Considering the box office earnings, the general positive response and a bunch of set-up's from the first movie, why couldn't it get a sequel?

@TheAwesomeBowser Mario Galaxy? If it comforts you Sonic fans have been wanting SA3 for almost 20 years now.

20 years after the Dreamcast went belly up and Sega are still doing what Nintendon’t.

Hopefully we'll get to see this sequel in theaters again. I would've loved to see the first one in theaters but I wasn't able to because of the pandemic (I'm guessing I'm the only one bringing this up). But as things probably stand, I don't think the chain will be any better than it was before the pandemic started, which would suck.

Same writers, same director. At least we're going to have solid consistency, and I don't mean mediocrity. Imagine if Michael Bay got to direct the sequel. That would SUCK!

Yo @Benhop07 I am loving your profile picture, is awesome! XD

Hopefully they don't end up screwing it. The first movie wasn't good but it was a fun movie for the kids. Hopefully the fun factor still made it to this sequel. Do remember that this is still a videogame movie, it had the likely chance of being crap than good so I just hope they don't add any weird elements to it like say Tails is Sonic's son or Knuckles is Sonic second form or something.

I bought it digitally and really enjoyed it, it's also the only film my 3 year old has ever watched all the way through. A fun movie and Jim Carey was almost back to his 90's best. Bring on the sequel

Good to know. I had so much fun with the first one.

From what I understand it was generic, uninspired and ardently mediocre. But not actually bad.

I suppose the question is how much effort to expend getting angry over mediocrity. On the one hand, hate seems a very strong emotion to waste on the utterly unremarkable.

On the other hand, you could argue that mediocrity being so pervasive as to be unremarkable is lamentable in itself, and that the greatest threat to the fabric of human creativity is not to be found in resounding failures so much as the ever-spreading beige stain of insipid, uninspired knock-offs.

I dunno.

But... err, I guess all you can really do to influence that is is choose to see the movie or not.

@0rwellians0n Somebody's mad. If the movie made over $210 million and received mixed and positive reviews even from some long time fans than it wasn't a failure. Maybe, y'know, just don't watch it.

@chocolate_supra knock knock its kniggles

i took my kids to see this over the border in germany in german. (which my german is garbage) kids loved this movie to bits and i enjoyed it. my little boy is fffffffffffffffff sonic daft now. glad they took time to redo the cgi

I went into the movie with an open mind, but I didn’t see much in it really. I think the central problem was this director Jeff Fowler , because the film was generically photographed and none of the actors in the film seemed to have anything to do except Carrey. Maybe the screenwriter/s were to blame for some of this as well, not sure.

Overall there was a lack of inspiration and spark behind this film. And yes, I do like family films.

@0rwellians0n Yet you said Detective Pikachu was okay and initially everyone thought it was gonna be bad. Seems more like a matter of taste than them making a financially successful mediocre movie.

And before you ask, no I'm not defending a lot of what the movie does(Alvin and the chipmunks style live-action/animation, beat-for-beat titular road trip, Millennial humour) but it could have been much worse had it not have been for Tyson Hesse stepping in to help remodel the design. At least it's not "So bad it's terrible" and instead it's just Mediocre to the point it's just good and servicable thanks to at least having as many nods to the sonic fanverse as possible.

It's not great, but by these numbers, it's not trash.

I wish we had different screenwriters. The script of this film was... not good.

Hopefully they spend most of the time in the film off Earth.

Great. Watched the first with the kids and they enjoyed it.

Same director?
Okay... I'm still listening.
As long as it isn't the same script crew.

The first film was quite frankly a mess, that only served as a lead-up to a potentially great sequel.
Just... at least get a ad-deal with Chili's instead of Olive Garden.

I doubt I would have gotten around to watching Sonic, if not for a global pandemic raging outside. Honestly though, to my utter surprise I did not end up regretting it. Maybe it was my personal lack of any attachement to Sonic as a character or the IP as a whole, but I found the movie enjoyable and entertaining coming to it with an open mind and zero expectations one way or the other.

Yes, there are leaps of logic abound, plotholes big enough to drive a container ship through, the ending makes little sense and the product placement is ... not subtle (then again, there are not even an Olive Gardens on my side of the pond, so what do I care really?).

Point is this: the movie looks and sounds great!

The revised CGi Sonic is well animated and very much likeable with some strong voice work giving him a relateable personality. The action is on point and feels surprisingly not-utterly-floaty, as CGi so often does. The "humans" are all acted competently, which can not have been an easy task given the movie's main protagonist is a virtual character. I always liked James Marsden and he delivers with this one, coming across as genuine, caring, decent and - once again - likeable. That's not much you may say, but it is really what was needed here, and that he delivered in spades.

Standout moments here clearly - and as expected no doubt - are delivered by the one and only Jim Carrey, who does what he does best: Finding a place beyond the sunset of serious acting, settling down there, building a DIY-type giant catapult and then launching himself into space all the while laughing madly for his own amusement. If you've seen any of this 90s "classics" and liked what he did there, well, this is it. He was a great fit for Ace Ventura as well as the Mask at the time and it sure as hell is a great fit here and now for Dr. Robotnik.

While I have no qualm with someone saying that Det. Pikachu is a better movie and a better game-to-movie adaption, I have to say that purely in terms of fun-factor, I did like Sonic better. Sonic was just better paced and more lighthearted, which ... surprise surprise is a better fit for the material at hand. Det. Pikachu took it self rather serious at some points, and while that was backed up by some actual meat on its' bones, it did not really make it substantial viewing in my opinion. It had little new or interesting to say ultimately. That's fine of course, but for me, it actually made the whole experience of watching the actual thing a tad more tiresome than I had to be, as some parts just dragged a fair bit.

Sonic doesn't even bother taking itself seriously. It's just a brisk, well paced, family-friendly adventure, which sounds and looks fine as hell in 4K HDR. Kids should have a blast with it and anyone looking for 90mins of mindless but easy-on-the-eyes fun will equally find merit here.

Don't go in expecting anything more though, that is just setting yourself up for disappointment.

In short: I'm very much down for the sequel - bring it!

@0rwellians0n The double standards in your posting is staggering. You yell "respect my opinion" and then call people names and make childish remarks about people who have a different opinion to you. And then you tell people not to call people names while you've done the exact same! In the same post!

I really enjoyed the first one. I hope that more than one person who works on the sequel plays Sonic first this time

Watched it again over the weekend with the kids and, yeah, it's as basic as can be, but also fun. I have high hopes for a follow-up.

That was fast....

@Cool_Squirtle ok, I wasn't clear enough. I do like some videogame movies (Dragon quest your story and detective Pikachu for example) but it was just funnier if I didn't mention that. Not all game movies are trash. Sorry for the confusion

@Chibi_Manny Thanks! We had a gamecube at school for the kids who were in latchkey (I know it's a dumb word look it up) and we would play nonstop kirby air ride and smash bros melee, so those games have a special place in my heart.

@BabyYoshi65 Get used to it, every single Hollywood movie nowadays needs that scene at the end of the movie teasing a sequel that might not even be made.

Also, read TV Tropes:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SequelHook
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CliffHanger

The ending of the Sonic movie was a Sequel Hook, the story ended, the Tails scene was just a small scene setting up a sequel, a Cliffhanger is when the story is not really over and needs a sequel to continue.

@victordamazio Yeah, I know it’s in a lot of movies, but this was the first one I watched with a Sequel Hook, so it made me want a sequel.

@NinChocolate it's better this way, early 90s hollywood would have botched it

Tails incoming....

@Benhop07 i have a lot of fond memories playing Kirby Air Ride so it had a very special place in my heart too, that's why when i see your profile pic it makes me happy, it fills me with childhood nostalgia. 😊

No surprise. The original was a massive succes. It would have even more so if the cinema's didn't need closing.

I ended up watching this and to my surprise really liked it. It it isn't a movie you watch again but it was similar to "Hop" but not quite as funny and loaded with more intelligent jokes.

@AshenLion Much like Pikachu, I'm sure it was mostly parents dragging their kids to see their childhood and the kids enjoyed it as much as mom and dad.

@NinChocolate you should check out the OVA, i think it was released in the 90s or something. That's the closest thing we got to a Sonic movie until recently

@dDankGM oh sweet