Sonic: Did You Even Try?

You know what I walked out of Sonic feeling? Exhausted. It was exhausting to sit through a movie – even one that is, by today’s standards, pretty short – that was nothing but a build up that put all of its effort into redesigning its main character before the film was released. Don’t get me wrong, we all appreciate the fact that Sonic is no longer the little demon-troll that was originally released to us, but I have to say if this movie spent as much time on its story as it did on making sure its main character was no longer horrifying, this might have been a movie worth watching. I will admit to not knowing much, if anything, about the extended lore of Sonic – I played maybe one game in my youth on my Gameboy Advance – but creating a video game movie doesn’t necessarily rely on knowledge of the actual game. It’s about creating the world of the game, the feeling of it, and making it accessible to people who don’t necessarily have the background. And for a movie that is about a blue hedgehog that can run faster than the speed of light, I find it incredible that it somehow managed to be predictable, boring, and just plain underwhelming.