Worry Not, The Sonic Movie Trailer Has Been Fixed Now

That looks so much better!

You've got to admit that's 100x better than the original,.

Sure it's better, but he looks angry the whole way through. Is he angry with the original design?

Just make it a CARTOON! Have all the same actors in the same rolls but do the whole thing in old school 2D animation!

Yes this is better than the original trailer, but that's like saying a cold is better than pneumonia! You're still not having a good time!

I still look at the original design and ask, how could they have looked at it and say “yep, that’ll do fine!”?

The only plausible answer being the people making the decisions had absolutely zero knowledge or understanding of the subject matter, it’s history and the fandom. Basically the best way to utterly screw up.

Well that is

shuffles hyperbole deck, draws card

9000 times better

A single fan has done a better job than the "professionals". Crazier still is that multiple people would had to have worked on and design the initial Sonic model.

Sega and Paramount ought to be ashamed of themselves. This is an absolutely pathetic showing on their part. But then, I don't expect anything bearing the Sonic name to bear any semblance of quality, so perhaps Sega is frugally sticking with the status quo.

Social media dictates everything these days, from movies to politics. They can't even make a film with artistic integrity anymore, have to give in to the mob in digital world.

Sure it looks better, but it's not original. If people told Van Gogh that his Starry Night was too swirly that he should just painted them like everyone else, then he would be a nobody today.

While cartoon Sonic made the trailer better, there's still something missing that other people made in their "fixed" trailers, soundtrack from Sonic games, with songs like "Escape from the City" and "Live and Learn".

Having these songs in the movie would really please the fanbase, and normies would not mind.

@nintendolie : I get what you're saying, and it's a fair point, but Hollywood is hardly a source of artistic integrity. Virtually all of their output is strenuously scrutinised and test-screened in order to appeal to the widest possible audience, originality and artistic freedom be damned.

Film-lovers who care for artistic integrity would not be turning to Hollywood films, which, nowadays at least, are tantamount to disposable single-use novelties at a fair. The US independents are still producing some quality films, however.

Yep that looks more like sonic....

@nintendolie yeah but this time social media was right. Lol

@nintendolie
Of course you are right.
It takes guts to stand against a crowd.
And artistic integrity often fail when business is on the balance.

Like it or not, but failing to defend a vision or an artistic interprétation to maximize an hypothetical profit is not something to be proud of...

This would look better in an animated movie, but in this, that looks SO MUCH OUT OF PLACE, it's laughable.😂
Also, why does nobody ever mention the last scene, where Dr. Robotnik seems like to be in Giant-Mushroom-Land. What's up with that?

@FX102A

Hollywood in a nutshell.

Now that is sonic.

Seriously though who actually watches intro videos. It's what turned me off the og PlayStation in favour of Nintendo as it was so style over substance. Gameplay is king but let's face it there are much better kart racing games than this one.

Great effort, great result. But honestly, this movie has many other problems than just the initial terrible Sonic design...

They're going to need to fix more then just the design. Something still looks off with the change. Still I forgot how bad the original design looked. It screams Dr Seuss even more to me now.

It's never going to be "fixed" while Sonic is still an alien buddying it up with a cop in an American city.

@MrBlacky S&K's Mushroom Hill?

Why are people surprised? Didn't the same thing happen to the last sonic game?

So much better! I couldn't take the other one seriously. It was just an amateur who made something. This is more class and almost like in game Sonic. Well done. Finally! Thank you fans who complained and made them rethink their work

Eh this one looks stiff as hell

I honestly didn't have a problem with Sonics design.

Everyone just overreacting as usual now a days

Now all they need to do is have him wagging his finger the sound sega will appear and i will lose my mind. Movie looks so much better now.

@bones exactly. someone with taste here

@nintendolie the objective of the producers is to gain money and therefore the public outlash is only in their own favor

Huh, neat.
(I'm trying make a refernce just let my post my comment NL!)

@Heavyarms55 well that is a bit unrealistic at this point. Is the movie going to be great? Hell no as the plot is as boring as it can be but this style in the way of roge rabbit is a great change notheless

@SenseiDje What if the artistic vision is garbage?
Not every scribbling is art. This is a kids movie, not high art. The interpretation was garbage.

I'm pretty sure the movie with a proper Sonic is long done and the abomination Sonic was just a marketing ploy (an effective one at that, already saw people saying they would go watch it, just to support them because they "listened to the fans").

The delay is either to make the re-do seem more realistic, or just to move it to a more quiet month, instead of the same month as Frozen 2.

Yes, yessssss!
Lightning of Absolutio-- I mean, this looks great. I expect the finished movie to look something like this, otherwise they're not getting my money.

Step one: Make horrible looking sanic only for a trailer knowing everyone will loose their minds, get tons of views and press

Step two: Say you will respond to fan criticism by re-animating the entire character in the film appeasing to the fanbase and giving them an illusion of control

Step three: release a "fan fixed" version for more hits and press

Step five: drop the movie as it always has secretly been intended with a great looking sanic that even trumps the "fan fixed" version and boil the hype to explosive levels

step six: movie is still bad because it's based on a trash ip at it's core but at least the tails sequel is funded

The old design still makes me laugh, looks like a bloke in a sonic onesie.

@nintendolie Van Gough was practically a nobody through most of his life. He, like so many other artists, was only appreciated and valued after his passing.

Ironically, his experience brings into question how much "artistic integrity" should be valued over raw monetary gains or popularity. Obviously, the answer is circumstantial, and only a select few can have it all (usually by luck).

And "Mob mentality" is a bit too cynical. In cases of commercial or collaborative products, concessions and compromises are to be expected on some level. Conversely, that's what the indie scene is for.

Again, is anyone really going to go see this, no matter how he looks? Just seems like fans will get mad at his design, then complain, then just not go see it.

This version looks light years ahead of the original, but I don’t think Sonic’s eyes should be a single, connected eye when portrayed in a real world setting. It looks just plain strange outside of a cartoon render. I feel like making his eyes larger though not technically connected would be the best compromise. That said, this is some impressive work.

@StevenG : this is like... hum... your opinion, man 😉
Pretty sure the 3d artist or so called person puts some pride in his/her work.

I tend to respect hard work over anything... specially when it’s marketing dictated...

@Balta666 Well yeah, obviously they can't change THIS movie, but I didn't mean literally cancel and start over. I just meant more in general.

Eyes look a tad too angry/a pinch strange. But better than original lol

Much, much better.

@nintendolie

This has nothing to do with mob mentality and everything to do with the complete and utter lack of respect for the source material in an attempt to cash in on a Jim Carrey "comeback".

Judging by the overwhelming response, not a lot of people were going to see the movie. Hence the existence of the early trailer and it's deployment to the very social media you criticize.

@nintendolie To compare a movie company which have bought a license to an existing property with van Gogh is a stretch. If Paramount and the director wanted artistic freedom, why make a Sonic movie in the first place? If they had called the character/movie Conis, no one would have cared.

@Silly_G

SEGA has nothing to do with the original design, so I don't think they should be ashamed of it. Perhaps they should be ashamed for licensing out the Sonic franchise to Paramount without any oversight or control though.

@Dakotastomp I won't be touching it with a 10 foot pole. If something as blatant as Sonic's representation being stuffed up and it took an outcry for a remedy, the script would probably be trash as well.

@SenseiDje Hard work means nothing. Literally nothing.
You could work very hard at being an awful person or doing a bad job at something. Neither deserves respect.

The people who came up with this sonic design deserve nothing for their efforts. I hope they didn't try very hard at it, because if they did that speaks poorly of them.

Looks a little like a plushie. And I would buy it!

Ben Schwartz sounds a lot better coming out of this Sonic. I hope this is close to the final design

Was that so hard? This is how he should of looked from the start!

Glad they changed his look, he actually looks like Sonic now!

I feel like the other sonic design was fine. It just needed some tweaking with his face and animation.

But Sonic has always been awful, so whom I to judge?

Looks okay as I never did had a problem with it in the first place, movie still feels like it's gonna stink though.

Based on the trailer (even this "fixed" one), I don't think the design of Sonic is the biggest problem with this movie.

It's better, but the facial expressions need a bit more work.

@StevenG
I respect your view even if i disagree. Efforts needs to be praised.

@GeminiSaint Well, the guy didn't have an entire animation studio + staff to do it, so he worked with what he had. Kudos to him as he gave us a glimpse of what we could expect.

They should seriosly consider to hire this guy!

Wow Sonic is way better
he is actually sonic this time!

@Dunan Exactly, but if people didn't like the way he looked originally in the trailer and had no interest in seeing it before, what makes them think redoing the design is going to make them like it now? It'll pretty much bomb either way.

Yesssss!!! Definitely want to see it now.

It's quite baffling that even such a rough (artists own words) retouch catches the essence much better than the official works.
I really hope that they can fix this awful design properly, because the film itself looks pretty fun and i do love Carreys take on Eggman.

It looked seriously better before they fixed it. In the first trailer it looked like sonic was alive not a dead cartoon that doesn't belong in the real world. I really hope they fix sonic back the way he always should have looked like. A creature with some depth and soul. Have can you feel that when you see him now??

YouTube do what Paramount cant.
Amazing.

Sonic Fan DOES while Paramount's to nothing.

The artist who created the first abomination would be better off just obliterating all traces of it from the professional portfolio.

Also SEGA should take the opportunity to make that mutant copycat an enemy on upcoming Sonic games.
"Freak Aberration"

They can change the animation all they want. It's still going to be hot garbage.

Eh... probably should stay out of this. Not a huge Sonic fan, though I do like the games, in general. But... really? This is not better, just different and way too far off in another direction. Takes some thick lensed fan goggles to think this is better, in my opinion. No slight against the person who put in the work to try this out. The actual production better do a far better job, though!

Wow, can't believe that design got approved in the first place.
Thank God they are fixing it.

Now someone needs to take this edited trailer and fix Robotnik…..

Somebody needs to show this to Sega immediately. This is perfect, exactly how Sonic should have looked in the first place.

It's impressively done for an amateur but goes too far, IMO. Half way between the two would be ideal.

way way better... should look nearly exactly like that...
only the fur could look a bit more structured and presage some spikes on the back but very very slightly ..
Still if they would leave it(the design) like it looks in this fan-remake trailer... it would still be about...
10000000000000000000000000000000to the power of 8 TIMES better than the initial design of the movie character.

@Einherjar Dr. Eggman, in his official Sega design, dramatically brings The Mask to his face. Once he wears it, he cartoonishly spins into the form of Jim Carrey’s live-action Eggman.
“I’m in charge!”

Yeah, I really got ‘classic’ Jim vibes from the trailer, the early 90s era.

For a movie possibly 30 years too late...it looks good! Plus Jim Carey is a total bonus.

@SenseiDje On what basis?
If I try really hard to harm your family, would you praise my efforts? If I tried really hard to spread disease would you praise my efforts? Terrorist attacks take a lot of effort, do you praise those?

@StevenG
Hey buddy, don’t you think you are stretching this argument ... in two answer, we will debate about our first godwin point...

So... bad efforts are bad. Bad people are bad. Bad 3d artists are bad. Bad drawing from your children for father’sday( or Mother’s day) is good. Bad violin piece from a 1rst year violin student is painfull, but good... this is my view.
No harm.

Are we ok now?

@MagicEmperor
I love The Mask and I too share your "classic" Jim vibes, he's going to play the hell out of the character.

I'm a fan of the games and hope the movie doesn't stray too much from the source material(looking at you Resident Evil movies 😑). I'll probably end up seeing it so I can judge it for myself

Can I just say that I'm happy someone finally addressed the shoes issue? Look, I know that Sonic's actual design was bad, but I feel like the only one more irked by the fact he simply wore generic red sneakers. Sonic's shoes are an iconic part of the character and to replace those with generic red sneakers was just... Really bothersome for me. The person who did this trailer should be hired for the movie.

@Monkeido By that logic, the 32X was also just a marketing ploy

@Matthew010 Well, Sonic's whole schtick in the 90's was a "bad 'tude", so it's not unfitting he'd always look annoyed.

I still don't understand how the original design happened at all. Not only is it a famous IP, not only does it have trademarks and IP usage guidelines theoretically supplied by Sega, but, even on a purely fantastical artistic invention, nothing about original movie Sonic actually looks good. Even as a new IP it looks like a really bad high school senior project at best. Even if they didn't know the original IP at all, how they came up with that eludes me.

@NEStalgia The what now? ^^'

@Monkeido https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/32X

The worstest console that ever was. Even worse than CDi. And it helped kill Segas console business.

YES! YES! FINALLY!

That looks 100x better! I watched the video before reading the article and thought it was the new version...but was confused about the old November date. This Sonic is way better than the shaggy one but yet, it can use a tiny tweak. I think I would like a slightly more cartoon version like it appears near the end.

@nintendolie I get what you are saying about originality, but for this specific movie people want to see the Sonic they grew up with, not an ugly shaggy fuzzball.

@kepsux I can see this theory...but check your numbers...you missed one.

@HobbesGrrr the number between 3 and 5 is evil.

This is much better.

@Heavyarms55 Detective Pikachu showed that a live-action video game movie can be done well. That, and making it animation doesn't mean it's going to be good. Look at Pokémon, it's had 21 movies ranging from mediocre to dreadful, yet it's live adaptation blows them all away.

@Dog Pahahahahahaha The live action Detective Pikachu blows the other Pokemon movies away?! Wow, thanks! I needed a good laugh!