Sonic Movie Thread - From a Disastrous Teaser/Trailer to Not That Bad a Movie; Got a Sequel

[Terrorist]

“Ace Ventura if he was Elon Musk” is probably a better concept for a villain than these movies deserve

 

[Trilby]

Is this based off the 90s movie with Paully Shore with the same name by any chance?

Lord knows that would be interesting to see.

 

[AlmightyMagichan]

In your face Shadow, Knuckles gets to go first this time.

 

[Cloaca Rimjob]

Confirmed Ken Penders is head writer for the new Knuckles series

 

[Mr. 0]

Confirmed Ken Penders is head writer for the new Knuckles series

NO

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Still the best Sonic movie IMO, I prey fro the day we get a good animated adaptation one day.

What surprises me the most is that the english dub manages to stay with the original script for like 90% of the time. Also i forgot how amazing the soundtrack to that movie is.

The voice acting has NOT aged well though. It always bothered me that Tails sounds like he's permanently suffering from a major cold and a gunked up stuffy nose.

 

[Fluoxetine Man]

We finally have an update on the Knuckles show!

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The mini-series is currently filming in London. Adam Pally, Kid Cudi, Edi Patterson, Julian Barratt, Ellie Taylor, Rory McCann and Tika Sumpter will star in the series. Idris Elba will return to voice Knuckles.

Goddamn, they're actually are using the hat!

 

[TVB]

What surprises me the most is that the english dub manages to stay with the original script for like 90% of the time. Also i forgot how amazing the soundtrack to that movie is.

The voice acting has NOT aged well though. It always bothered me that Tails sounds like he's permanently suffering from a major cold and a gunked up stuffy nose.

Yea, the VA for Tails in the English dub sounded like he's dying that it's borderline horrifying.

I'll say that Eggman's VA in the English dub is very underrated and deserves more credit.

 

[AlmightyMagichan]

Wonder why they decided to give him that hat in the OVA? Maybe they were going for some kind of combination of Knuckles and Nack the Weasel.

 

[Pig Boss]

Wonder why they decided to give him that hat in the OVA? Maybe they were going for some kind of combination of Knuckles and Nack the Weasel.

Two reasons:
The leaping off point is that he's a treasure hunter which is, loosely, what Indiana Jones is.
The main design difference is because Echidnas are Australian so the hat is an Outback Hat instead of a Fedora.

That's pretty much the long and short of it.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

Our resident Sanic autist, Ryan Bloom, discusses the Mario movie vs. the Sonic movies and whether it'd be better if Sonic had an animated feature film instead:

That would be nice, yeah. In the back of my mind I wonder if they’re watching how well Mario does being so pure and faithful to the source material. Because when you think about it, there isn’t actually a lot in the Sonic movies that’s actually directly from the games.

There’s a lot of inspiration, sure. You’ll catch something like Agent Stone working at a coffee shop called “The Mean Bean”, but that’s a small background thing. Or Sonic will grab a piece of trash and go snowboarding with it, stuff like that. But it’s not like he’s IN THE ACTUAL ICECAP ZONE, with the ICECAP ZONE MUSIC PLAYING while he does it, you know? Which Mario has. Cranky Kong tells Mario to “pick his kart” and he plops down in front of the interface from the game while a riff on the Mario Kart 8 selection music plays. And then, when they get out driving down Rainbow Road, you hear a brief, soaring orchestral version of the SNES Rainbow Road music. And that’s really nice, you know? It’s not making excuses for itself. For all the work they did redesigning Sonic to not be so creepy looking in those Paramount movies, Mario did the one thing that makes the Sonic movies look like they’re still embarrassed of the video games. Sonic winks to people who know the games, whereas Mario makes it the whole subtext. Lumas and Koopa Troopas and Kongs all over the place.

Though, to be clear: the Mario movie also does go out of its way to make a “new version” of the Mario Universe specific to the movies. We get a lot of characters in this movie that have never ever been seen in the games. We get to see Mario’s whole family, they suggest Peach might have a mysterious origin story, little elements like that which the movie “owns.” But regardless, it’s more pure, you know? The Mario movie feels more like Mario than the Sonic movies feel like Sonic, or at least, I think so.

So I imagine, as pre-production of the third Sonic movie continues, they’re looking closely at what Mario’s doing right and discussing what lessons they would be willing to apply going forward. Though, certainly, if they’re adapting Sonic Adventure 2 now, that lends itself more than anything else to Sonic being in a world of humans. But hey, fingers crossed for Live & Learn over the final battle, right? And maybe, just maybe, we’ll get a Sonic movie some day that’s all animation. As I left the theater, I was definitely wondering what a Sonic movie would look like if it was like that. Probably sort of like Night of the Werehog, but updated with more expensive rendering techniques, right? It would be pretty nice.

 

[TVB]

Our resident Sanic autist, Ryan Bloom, discusses the Mario movie vs. the Sonic movies and whether it'd be better if Sonic had an animated feature film instead:

I could picture that honestly. Sure, the two new Sonic movies are enjoyable, but I'd prefer Sonic to be more of a CG animated movie as well, but more akin to something like Spiderverse in terms of visuals.

 

[Pig Boss]

Our resident Sanic autist, Ryan Bloom, discusses the Mario movie vs. the Sonic movies and whether it'd be better if Sonic had an animated feature film instead:

I'd rather strike a balance, the opening of the first movie in Green Hill Zone was great but I assume making an entire movie looking like that would cost more than some small nation's yearly GDP.
The Mario movie was too much like the games, the Sonic ones aren't enough like them.

 

[TVB]

I'd rather strike a balance, the opening of the first movie in Green Hill Zone was great but I assume making an entire movie looking like that would cost more than some small nation's yearly GDP.
The Mario movie was too much like the games, the Sonic ones aren't enough like them.

Well the new animated Mario movie had screamed memberberries fanservice only to please the crowd, and that's because Mario is more balanced than Sonic in terms of gameplay, continuity, consistency and everything else under the sun. It's too impossible to fuck that up, unless if, y'know, it's the infamous 90s live-action movie.

 

[Pig Boss]

Well the new animated Mario movie had screamed memberberries fanservice only to please the crowd, and that's because Mario is more balanced than Sonic in terms of gameplay, continuity, consistency and everything else under the sun. It's too impossible to fuck that up, unless if, y'know, it's the infamous 90s live-action movie.

That's true enough. I just got sick of seeing him snag a flag pole and slide down it while the level complete jingle played. I think it happened three times or so. Same with the music, I don't mind a remix of the music being woven into a new take on a track but Mario just seemed to use the game music exclusively.
I'd have liked the movies to be closer to the games for things like Robotnik being a fatty but I also wouldn't want to hear the entire Death Egg Zone music over the final battle. Having said that I might have shidded and farded and coomed if an orchestral Open Your Heart played when he went super.
Plus, I might have mentioned this before but if the underwater ruin housing the Master Emerald rose from the ocean and revealed itself to be Angel Island in the scene where Knuckles returns the ME I think I legit would have died of a stroke. Thanks, Miyazaki for my obsession with floating islands.
Oh, and if they could somehow work my boy E-102 into the third movie I'd be pretty pleased. If they introduce Amy they could really cement her as the emotional heart of the crew by having her help E-102 and Shadow overcome their issues that would be just swell.

 

[TVB]

That's true enough. I just got sick of seeing him snag a flag pole and slide down it while the level complete jingle played. I think it happened three times or so. Same with the music, I don't mind a remix of the music being woven into a new take on a track but Mario just seemed to use the game music exclusively.
I'd have liked the movies to be closer to the games for things like Robotnik being a fatty but I also wouldn't want to hear the entire Death Egg Zone music over the final battle. Having said that I might have shidded and farded and coomed if an orchestral Open Your Heart played when he went super.
Plus, I might have mentioned this before but if the underwater ruin housing the Master Emerald rose from the ocean and revealed itself to be Angel Island in the scene where Knuckles returns the ME I think I legit would have died of a stroke. Thanks, Miyazaki for my obsession with floating islands.

I still think I want Danny DeVito to voice as Robotnik if they do make an animated feature. Plus, they could do countless references of not just Adventure, but also AoSTH or either the Advance and Rush games or possibly Heroes(?).

 

[A Hot Potato]

I liked the 90's Mario Movie.

 

[Creep3r]

I liked the 90's Mario Movie.

I liked it too, but love it or hate it (regardless of production problems) everyone has to appreciate the level of dedication they put into the props, costumes and sets.


Motherfuckers emptied out a huge factory and turned it into a mini city. Now that's dedication.

And the sfx were pretty damn convincing.

 

[TVB]

I liked it too, but love it or hate it (regardless of production problems) everyone has to appreciate the level of dedication they put into the props, costumes and sets.

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Motherfuckers emptied out a huge factory and turned it into a mini city. Now that's dedication.

And the sfx were pretty damn convincing.
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Plus it was Koopa Kino

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

Sonic's Knuckles Series Adds Multiple New Cast Members​

According to Deadline, Cary Elwes, Stockard Channing, Christopher Lloyd, Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel have all signed on. They'll be featuring in this series alongside Idris Elba (Knuckles) and Adam Pally, who reprises his role as Wade Whipple. Tika Sumpter (Maddie) will also be a guest star. Also joining the show is Edi Patterson, Julian Barratt, Scott Mescudi, Ellie Taylor and Rory McCann. Character details about all of the new cast members are apparently being "kept under wraps" for now, but the story will apparently follow Knuckles on a "hilarious and action-packed journey of self-discovery", where he also finds himself using his "Echidna warrior" ways to train Wade as his protégé.

>Christopher Lloyd

10/10. 10/10. 100/100. Best show. Best show.