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Sonic Movie Thoughts
5 years ago
Sunday i went and saw the sonic movie. If you want the quick spoiler free review of it from me i would say 8/10, With the exception of Jim Carey making a few of his scenes go on a bit long, the movie goes by quite fast as it kind of should being a sonic film. Never found it boring and it was pretty easy to follow, with the jokes generally being good or at least not bad, the action is fairly decent especially the scenes of sonic slowing down time to do several things at once. The movie looks good visually which is surprising considering the creature from the first trailer, music could be better but i never really focused on the music during the movie so wasn't really a big minus for me. The fact it's in the real world for most of it is kinda lame but i turned out way better then i expected.
I'd say just give it a chance if you have any interest, speaking of most of the movie being in the real world the credits are retro styled for a while then a special scene plays, after that scene is over the credits are more normal text credits and there is not another scene after that so at least stay and watch the really nice 16bit credits and the scene after it.
Now that the general thoughts are out of the way i'll talk about individual scenes of note in i think chronological order so....
SPOILERS BELOW
It starts with a weird kinda off putting owl cause it's basically a feral animal that talks and is sonic's guardian, might be based on the OVA but not sure but we do get to see an entire tribe of echidna's so knuckles isn't alone and hopefully get's to appear in a sequel.
Sanic get's a cameo, i wonder if the person who first drew that is getting royalties at this point.
I wish they didn't show the mushroom eggman scene in the first trailer, very early on it's established sonic would need to go to a mushroom planet to escape earth and sonic really doesn't want to go cause mushrooms are terrible, sonic is correct btw mushrooms are super nasty. But still it meant the whole movie i knew this movie is going to end with eggman going through that portal to mushroom hill or mushroom kingdom.
Sonic get's put in a petcage after getting shot with a tranquilizer, for most people this is not important but i totally want to draw porn of that and hopefully i'm not the only one, plus this scene is called back to in one of the funniest scenes in the movie.
There is a badnicks reference but it's very minor blink and you miss it kind of thing, this reminds me sonic runs around in a clothes dryer, he told me not to do that in sonic sez, hypocrite. D:
A lot of reviews mention a bad fart joke but i can live with it cause it is in a scene where tom the cop sonic is with say's at least if you go to the mushroom planet you won't be the only fungi, to which sonic replies don't do ever do that again, i agree puns are the lowest form of humor.
Sonic's feet are shown for a bit as he get's new shoes from a girl seeing sonic's shoes are worn out and terrible, she even goes full sonic fan running in circles screaming gotta go fast. But still they showed the feet very slightly and there foot shaped not nubs like the games, foot fetishists rejoice. :P
There is one more annoying plothole where sonic has to get to the top of a building and he doesn't just run up it, the building is angled so i feel he could have done it but the jokes made while he sneaks up to the top are some of the funniest in the movie so i'll let it slide.
Sonic can slow time down, with a power like that i feel he's to op and should never be able to really be beat so i do like that eggman uses the power of his quills to make his machines run while sonic is in his time stop mode, also eggman mentions his eggsack, it makes more sense in the movie.
My most hated scene is the final battle just cause i hate friendship powers and sonic is nearly dead about to get blasted to shreds and tom says sonic's his friend and that causes sonic to get up and go super sayian, i'm not mocking super sonic, sonic goes blue..... EXTRA BLUE not yellow and super fast, attacking the eggmobile fast repeatedly damaging the glass and hull kinda like it would look after a boss in older games, then it get's punted through a warp ring too the mushroom planet.
For some reason i'm in the mood for olive garden, have you heard there endless pasta bowl is ENDLESS!?!? there is some annoying product placement but the final jokes involving olive garden was kinda funny.
Lastly there is the scene of eggman wandering the mushroom zone as the credits start but half way through the credits tails makes an appearance and he looked pretty good, and i hope for a sequel with more sonic like locations and characters, tails is shown and knuckles race is at least acknowledged, so there is a start and some sequel bating so if you have any interest in this movie or another sonic movie more in line with the games i suggest you go and support this movie it's a fine watch and you probably won't hate it, i think this movie is more on the cheap side to test the waters and see if a sonic movie could do well and if it does well which it is so far hopefully we'll get those more game accurate sequels. Anyway that's all unless you want to ask more about it in the comments.
I'd say just give it a chance if you have any interest, speaking of most of the movie being in the real world the credits are retro styled for a while then a special scene plays, after that scene is over the credits are more normal text credits and there is not another scene after that so at least stay and watch the really nice 16bit credits and the scene after it.
Now that the general thoughts are out of the way i'll talk about individual scenes of note in i think chronological order so....
SPOILERS BELOW
It starts with a weird kinda off putting owl cause it's basically a feral animal that talks and is sonic's guardian, might be based on the OVA but not sure but we do get to see an entire tribe of echidna's so knuckles isn't alone and hopefully get's to appear in a sequel.
Sanic get's a cameo, i wonder if the person who first drew that is getting royalties at this point.
I wish they didn't show the mushroom eggman scene in the first trailer, very early on it's established sonic would need to go to a mushroom planet to escape earth and sonic really doesn't want to go cause mushrooms are terrible, sonic is correct btw mushrooms are super nasty. But still it meant the whole movie i knew this movie is going to end with eggman going through that portal to mushroom hill or mushroom kingdom.
Sonic get's put in a petcage after getting shot with a tranquilizer, for most people this is not important but i totally want to draw porn of that and hopefully i'm not the only one, plus this scene is called back to in one of the funniest scenes in the movie.
There is a badnicks reference but it's very minor blink and you miss it kind of thing, this reminds me sonic runs around in a clothes dryer, he told me not to do that in sonic sez, hypocrite. D:
A lot of reviews mention a bad fart joke but i can live with it cause it is in a scene where tom the cop sonic is with say's at least if you go to the mushroom planet you won't be the only fungi, to which sonic replies don't do ever do that again, i agree puns are the lowest form of humor.
Sonic's feet are shown for a bit as he get's new shoes from a girl seeing sonic's shoes are worn out and terrible, she even goes full sonic fan running in circles screaming gotta go fast. But still they showed the feet very slightly and there foot shaped not nubs like the games, foot fetishists rejoice. :P
There is one more annoying plothole where sonic has to get to the top of a building and he doesn't just run up it, the building is angled so i feel he could have done it but the jokes made while he sneaks up to the top are some of the funniest in the movie so i'll let it slide.
Sonic can slow time down, with a power like that i feel he's to op and should never be able to really be beat so i do like that eggman uses the power of his quills to make his machines run while sonic is in his time stop mode, also eggman mentions his eggsack, it makes more sense in the movie.
My most hated scene is the final battle just cause i hate friendship powers and sonic is nearly dead about to get blasted to shreds and tom says sonic's his friend and that causes sonic to get up and go super sayian, i'm not mocking super sonic, sonic goes blue..... EXTRA BLUE not yellow and super fast, attacking the eggmobile fast repeatedly damaging the glass and hull kinda like it would look after a boss in older games, then it get's punted through a warp ring too the mushroom planet.
For some reason i'm in the mood for olive garden, have you heard there endless pasta bowl is ENDLESS!?!? there is some annoying product placement but the final jokes involving olive garden was kinda funny.
Lastly there is the scene of eggman wandering the mushroom zone as the credits start but half way through the credits tails makes an appearance and he looked pretty good, and i hope for a sequel with more sonic like locations and characters, tails is shown and knuckles race is at least acknowledged, so there is a start and some sequel bating so if you have any interest in this movie or another sonic movie more in line with the games i suggest you go and support this movie it's a fine watch and you probably won't hate it, i think this movie is more on the cheap side to test the waters and see if a sonic movie could do well and if it does well which it is so far hopefully we'll get those more game accurate sequels. Anyway that's all unless you want to ask more about it in the comments.
