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Things that made the movie good: • The redesign • Jim Carrey • Dewey Duck’s VA • the redesign • Tails design • the redesign

i love how they got sanic in the film without being cringy

The Knuckles Tribe is actually a thing in the games! They existed thousands of years in the past, before getting obliterated by a water monster. Knuckles is the last of his kind. Sonic games have fun stories.

Tails appearing actually made everyone in my theater scream so loud that I couldn't even tell what he was saying. I'm not a big Sonic fan, but I like Tails and I'm glad it made everyone in the theater happy. Glad you put the clip in, now I know what he said.

Best thing about this movie: - The redesign - Tails I have spoken.

*Concerned look* “Do you have your CHILD in that bag?!” *shakes head* “No..... I mean, yes, it’s a child. But it’s- not mine” *smiles*

The appearence of Tails and the origin of Robotnick made me actually hyped for a sequel

cinema wins: "I would like this to have longer title screen" cinema sins: *loud screaming*

The fact that this movie came out THIS YEAR baffels me, it feels like ages ago

Did anyone else notice that Sonic consistently drops his rings when he gets hit?

"Yes, they could call anybody, but they call you," was a line I wasn't expecting. People call Tom because they trust him to help when they're in trouble, no matter how small. I really liked the conversation because I could see both sides--wanting a chance to rise to the occasion on one hand and loving your community on the other. People feel both those things, sometimes in conflict, and it's just such a realistic conflict for a movie with a pretty silly concept. (Nothing wrong with silly concepts, I loved the extremes of this movie as well!)

Can we appreciate how this movie has human characters that are actually interesting and memorable besides Robotnik? Everyone from Tom and Maddie, to Maddie's family, to Agent Stone. * Tom is an awesome and lovable guy, and probably the first human friend Sonic has that can actually hold his own against Robotnik instead of being a useless/annoying kid that's prone to getting in the way. Looking at you, Chris Thorndyke. * Maddie is a loyal supportive wife to Tom to whom she is already happily married and so doesn't have a stupid romantic subplot that cuts into Sonic's screentime. While she doesn't get a lot of time to interact with Sonic, you can still tell that she's willing to help him with his problems any way she can. And thankfully, THANKFULLY, she's not Sonic's love interest. We don't need a repeat of Princess Elise. * Maddie's family are thankfully both used sparingly. If they had been there throughout the whole movie, they probably could've been extremely annoying. But for the most part, they were good. Maddie's sister provides a good counter-balance to Maddie's perfect relationship with Tom by being the angry sister-in-law that hates his guts. And Jojo got to give Sonic his trademark shoes, which was a very cute scene. And thankfully she stayed with her mother instead of tagging along and potentially getting in the way. Again, we don't need another Chris Thorndyke-type character in this franchise. * Agent Stone, while he didn't really get to help his boss with fighting Sonic, still managed to be a welcome addition to the cast. I know some people think Stone should've been Snively from Sonic SatAM, but I don't think that would made sense; Snively was a backstabber that plotted against Robotnik whenever he could, while Stone is genuinely loyal. And leads into my next point about him: for once, Robotnik gets a henchman that willingly serves him and is completely loyal without being a bumbling oaf (like the ones Robotnik/Eggman usually gets in the various cartoons) or a mindless, voiceless automaton like Metal Sonic. Though I'd definitely like to see Metal Sonic make his live-action film debut. I hope to see all of them come back for the sequel.

I love the fact tails has his actual voice actor, plus imagine how horrifying tails with the old design would look

They weren't homaging the Quicksilver Time In A Bottle scene. No joke, they were doing an homage of that scene in Over the Hedge where the squirrel drinks an energy drink and gains super speed. Not joking.

The worst part of this movie is that the studio that fixed Sonic's design for this movie went under after finishing it...

the next one should be called Sonic The Hedgehog: Act 2

"Remember the coup in Pakistan?" "No." "Or the uprising in Azerbaijanistan?" "That's not even a country." _"Exactly! _*_And you can thank Robotnik for that."_*

I was not happy with how CinemaSins treated this movie so I had to come to CinemaWins. But I love how CinemaWins and CinemaSins sometimes overlap and acknowledge the same things XD Thus establishing it wasn't really a sin. "Sonic has been stalling because he wants a friend" Finally someone gets it! Everyone just keeps saying he could easily get there on his own but he's obviously making the long journey on purpose.

I seen this opening night and had me and my GFs heart melted by a horde of kids yelling, TAILS!!! Most wholesome thing ever

I wholeheartedly gave many praises and respect to the animators for all of their grueling hours it took for them to pull off these changes to sonic. This movie is a sheer delight and comedy gold.

Me: Sees Everything Great About Sonic The Hedgehog Also Me: The fact that they cared and listened to our complaints and changed the design

Are we gonna ignore that the US Government referenced Robotnic possibly committing a war crime?

2:40 Yea. I like that aspect. As his canon age is meant to be 15/16. It varied in the games.

The creators have really thought this movie through and included so many easter eggs and references to the Sonic character as a whole.

The second I saw Jim Carrey as Eggman, I thought that was absolutely PERFECT casting.

I can't believe you overlooked the line "Does she have a name? Or should I just call her collateral damage?" because that line had NO RIGHT giving me chills when I saw this movie in theaters

The movie’s officially 1 year old!!! Seeing this movie on Valentine’s Day made it less depressing There may be hope for video game movies! Carrey steals so much of the scenery as Robotnik Love how they play around with Sonic's speed The action is so much fun Happy they stuck close to the source material Can’t wait to see Tails next!

the entire reason i even got BACK into the sonic franchise was bc of the movie tbh

One thing I really appreciated about this movie was they avoided the entire trite "romance subplot" nonsense by having James Marsden and Tika Sumpter's characters already married. They knew we were here for Sonic and Robotnik, not boring human relationship drama. Overall I really enjoyed this film. Just like Detective Pikachu, it knew when to stick to the games and when to do it's own thing, and most importantly it made the characters actually worth caring about. Also, I'm glad I'm not the only one who can't see Michael Hogan as anyone but Saul Tigh.

1:32 Fun fact: "Don't stop me now" is scientifically listed as the song that would make you feel happy the most

I'm adding another win because, while it's hard to see, Robotnik has a Crush 40 playlist.

7:53 Sonic made the Vin Diesel "Family" meme before it actually became a thing.

The fact that the uncanny valley design changed is a great start lol

Spoiler alert Maybe because Robotnic is on a mushroom planet he’ll have to survive of a all mushroom diet which could alter his body type to be more plump. Like in the games

8:40 apparently Carrey improvised the entire dance AND chose the song lol people also suspected the mushroom planet was a jab at Nintendo, with how much Sonic dislikes the planet, since Mushroom Kingdom and all

And now there’s a sequel for April 2022. Let’s hope it keeps the same atmosphere of this one. I’m just glad they kept the originality of Knuckles being a rival to Sonic.

Actually, what’s really sad is that the studio who animated Sonic and re-animated him went out of business. They were a company out of Vancouver, and it was a big story in Canada. Edit: thank you all for commenting corrections and facts about what happened. I was aware that the Sonic movie didn't cause the closure of the studio, but it's interesting to hear all of the different reasons why this happens in the animation industry.

A lot of people don't seem to know that Olive Garden didn't sponsor the movie at all and the whole thing was just something the writers came up with. Pat Casey mentioned this in an interview with FANDOM if I remember correctly.

When I saw tails I actually started swearing cause I said “if there is a sonic movie 2, tails has to be in it”

10:47 I really wanted him to finish the line.

Extra Wins: 1. During the Green Hill Zone scene, the music that plays is "Friends" by Hyper Potions, which was the music for the Opening in Sonic Mania 2. The Echidna tribe is most likely a reference to Sonic Adventure and the Echidna Tribe in that game. 3. That version of Green Hill Zone is actually a fan-remix 4. His racecar bed is from the comic books, which in it of itself was based on Sonic Drift 5. In Robotnik's music list, the band Crush 40 is there. They did vocal themes for Sonic Adventure 1&2, Sonic Heroes, Sonic '06, and Shadow the Hedgehog 6. Robotnik's theme is a remix of his theme from the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon and his theme from Sonic Unleashed

My sister has this theory that Sonic's speed power comes from absorbing energy in any form. The example here is the emotional energy from having friends like Tom and Maddie, and upon hearing Tom declare to Robotnik in the third act that Sonic is his friend, that is emotional energy enough to revive Sonic and give him the strength to defeat Robotnik. Now imagine that the sequel throws in the Chaos Emeralds, and the energy Sonic absorbs from them makes him Super Sonic.

This movie just hits me like nothing else has this year, and every time I watch it i remember what it was like before the lockdown. this movie just means alot to me, watching it is like a nice warm bowl of soup.

Kinda funny how so many people had such low hopes for this movie at first when they saw the original Sonic model. Turns out it's quite a good movie.

Oh my god using the sound of getting hit and losing all your rings is a great choice for when you remove a win.

Surprised you didn’t notice the “Crush 40” cameo when Dr. Robotnik was going through his list of songs

I thought it was cute how Colleen O’Shaughnessy (Tails’ voice actress) got in on this project!

12:14 in Sonic's comics, given archie comics, Sonic slept in a bed just like that! yey, glad to see a reference to the comics

Olive garden wasn't actually product placement. According to Pat Casey (one of the writers of the movie), it was meant to be a joke that was somehow mentioned more than once in the movie.

TAILS LOOKS ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. YES. AND THE VOICE FITS HIM SO WELL

I've never been so impressed with a team hearing a response and working hard to fix it. The animators went above and beyond on this and I really hope they got the support and compensation they truly deserve.

11:59 Okay, some people might've noticed this, but that Olive Garden coupon was signed by "Uncle Sam". That detail's gotta be a Win

Extra win: Jim Carrey's spot on Mike Pollock impression making the transformation into Eggman even better.

Also it makes sense that there’s some obnoxious product placement considering they had to redo the design

11:09, don't you mean "FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC!!!!" (That's how Twilight said it on EG 2).

2:00 Still to this day I can't believe they referenced the Sanic meme. Its just bizare

"What do I look like an imbecile." "Of course I want a lotta, I LOVE THE WAY YOU MAKE THEM!!!

Extra win (probably): at 5:13 when sonic shakes himself, the water droplets are tossed on camera.

4:21 Jim Carrey Eggman: Ahhhhhhh! Me: Yessss

3:49 the fact that they reference sonic loosing all his rings by being hit once

Know what's funny? Sonic saves a Turtle and is voiced by the guy who voices Leo in Rise of the TMNT. Good stuff.

Fun fact: Olive garden wasn't actually a product placement. According to one of the writers, pat casey, it was meant to be a joke that was somehow mentioned countless of times in the movie. But given that one of the themes of the movie is 'found family' and olive garden's slogan is 'when you're here, you're family, I think it all makes sense.

As a Zoomer, I can confirm that, while rare, I have seen payphones occasionally. Ironically, I don't know who ZZ Top is.

I just love how Jim Carrey first presence as Dr.Robotnik automatically earn him three more win counts, because he just deserved it

saw this in theaters with four friends of mine; we each brought a notepad and had a friendly competition of “who can write down the most easter eggs” i lost

Full disclosure: Me and my friends shamelessly went to Olive Garden after watching this in theaters.

10:24 the pose is actually originally from Sonic Adventure!

3:54 Don't be so silly chief, if you played the first game you'd know Sonic is screwed if he fell on spikes even with rings and a shield powerup! An iconic suspected bug in the code, but I like to see it as a pretty challenging feature, and would honestly not mind if it came back in the next Sonic game like Frontiers.

Its safe to say Sonic only knows stuff through watching us live our lives. His Payphone reference is likely a callback to Bill and Ted since he calls it a teleportation box. @cinemawins

15:30 The reason the title card was quick is because its Sonic's title card. And he is quick. It fits.

“A whole tribe of… Knuckles? Knuckleses? Knuckila? I doubt they know the way.” This quote alone deserves a subscribe.

Ok the “of course I want a latte. I LOVE THE WAY U MAKE THEM!!!!” Line made my cheeks hurt

I'm so glad someone else thinks that Sonic's other friends should wait if the next movie is going to introduce Tails. I really want the sequel to focus on Sonic's & Tails' relationship, because adding more characters would put less focus on that, and would make the story feel all cluttered and make Tails less important.

14:58 "Jaleel White's shoes are not easy to fill" And Ryan Drummond, and Jason Griffith, and Roger Craig Smith, and a bunch of others who have voiced the blue blur over the years.

7:34 Isn't the most basic motto of the Police; "To Protect and Serve"? Some small town cops take that literally, and are very willing to help.

“Standing up for your little buddy, who only wanted a friend.” Are you telling me this lad predicted Splatoon 3?

A personal win for me is that there’s a bit of similarities with this movie and the Bumblebee movie. Both are made by Paramount and have a human teaming up with something from an another planet. Also a little thing I noticed is Dr. Robotnik said “He was just a silly little alien. He didn’t belong here.” to which Tom responds with “That alien knew more about being human than you’ll ever be.” which is similar to Bumblebee when Agent Burns said “He can’t feel it’s just a machine.” then Charlie Watson responds with “He’s more human than you’ll ever be.” Almost like these new Paramount nostalgia movies have the theme of having alien characters that are better at being human than the actual humans. So this win is for the cool theme. *DING*

I hope Cinamawins does Atlantis the Lost Empire before the end of the year.

4:54 I'm wet. I'm cold. There's a *HUNDRED AND FOUR DAYS OF SUMMER VACATIO-*

7:42 does that music sound like the theme for when you get a chaos emerald or is that just me?

I love the fact that Maddie made 2 different cakes related to Toms application to join the SFPD. 1 where he got accepted and 1 where he got denied. I'd call that a preperation win. What do you think of that win I made up?

One definitive win for me was having the song “friends” from Sonic Mania in the movie. The song is wonderful and the two guys that made it seemed to really appreciate it being in the movie.

8:29 WAIT I DIDN’T REALIZED EGGMAN WAS SAYING JAPANESE IS THAT PART *the more you know.*

1:53 So Im guessing that the sequel of this movie is going to contain Sonic going to the different planets and gathering the chaos emeralds to defeat some new big bad probably Eggman again

The second movie hopefully will introduce the chaos emeralds, and Super Sonic, with a post-credit scene of Eggman meeting with Knuckles who is looking for the person who stole his emerald. The third film would show Knuckles actually having the emerald stolen from him by a Sonic-like figure. Fast-forward, Knuckles is hunting Sonic down (due to Eggman lying to him) and this leads to Knuckles stealing the emeralds from Sonic relatively early in the film. Sonic and Tails work together to find Knuckles, while Knuckles is trying to find his own answers. They cross paths at least two or three times in the film before realizing they are being played. Eggman reveals his true plan, and the true antagonist that ends of going beyond Eggman- is Metal Sonic (made from Eggman's tech, and Sonic's quill). Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails team up to defeat Metal Sonic (currently being powered up by the Master Emerald at this time in the film). Amy would be in this film, but her role will be minor, as the next film would kind of focus on building Amy up similarly to how Sonic the Hedgehog 2 would build up Tails and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 would build up Knuckles. The fourth film would be inspired by the story in which Amy gains her Piko Piko Hammer. The story would be slightly altered- leading to a Super Genesis Wave (for those who don't know, it's a large scale Chaos Control that reshapes reality) that ends up merging the world we know from Sonic, and the human world of Tom, Maddie, and Doctor Robotnik. The fifth film would be an adaptation of the Sonic Adventure storyline, introducing Chaos, Chao, Tikal, the E-100 series of robots, and the Super Sonic vs Perfect Chaos fight. The story would more than likely be altered slightly, but not enough to ruin the integrity of the original story. The story would be told from several perspectives including Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Big the Cat, and E-102: Gamma.

Two notes, one happy, and one unfortunately sad: The Good: Jim Carey in this movie actually isn't too far off from the comics and Sonic Boom interpretations of Eggman. And before detractors say anything, have you *seen* the Sonic Boom TV show? Eggman is a fantastic character in that. The Bad: You said you hoped the studio that did the reanimation was compensated. Unfortunately, this is the last film that the studio did before it was shut down. It was the Vancouver office for Moving Picture Company, and that office had previously done Life of Pi (Oscar winning), Watchmen, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and other films.

There's a part in the final part of the movie when eggman is on the mushroom planet, and I don't know if it was deliberate, but for a few seconds he channels Mike Pollock's voice as robotnik. Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought it was interesting how that gravelly voice of OG robotnik slipped in.

i love aggressive kindness and when robotnik gets the latte i love the agressive kindness "do you want a latte" "YES I LOVE THE WAY YOU MAKE THEM"

"Everything GREAT about Sonic the Hedgehog!"? you mean "Everything IS GREAT about Sonic the Hedgehog!"

1:41 surprised no one caught the fact that speed cams cap out at 250-300mph, in the original cut it read a little over 700 mph.

Thank you for addressing the elephant in the room with this movie on 9:30 . When I first watched the film, I always thought about how powerful Sonic is and how there are problems he could easily solve with his speed, but he constantly gives excuses 1 after another in order to have to avoid leaving Earth. Like when he tried to open a portal in his cave when he 1st saw the drone closing in on his location. He easily could've just opened a portal and left right then and there, but he "had to find somewhere safe" to open the portal? The drones were already close to his location, but hadn't noticed him yet and he easily could've left and yet he didn't. Or when he got shot by Tom even though we've seen him move faster than rockets being fired at him and yet Sonic could'nt dodge a tranquilizer dart? Just goes to show the amount of work Sonic did to try to avoid leaving until the last second when he absolutely had to.

Another detail I really love is the fact that they actually did choose echidnas as the greedy intelligence species that wanted Sonic's power. It reminds me of the ancient echidna tribe from Sonic adventure 1 that had a power-hungry leader which is something I mentioned in a review

Really enjoyed this movie. It sucks that the whole controversy with the Sonic design happened at all, especially because at the end of it, I believe the animation studio shut down. But I loved Ben as Sonic's voice, I loved Jim as Robotnik, and I loved all the little easter eggs throughout the movie. The plot was kind of the usual for this type of "strange creature in the human world" thing, but the dialogue and acting carried it well. And I loved that Tails' VA from the games got to do the stinger (although, when it comes time for the sequel, I kind of doubt she'll actually get to do that. Or if they do, they'll probably try to underpay her because she's "not a real actor")

“I doubt they know the way” **WHEEZE**

Things Great About The Sonic The Hedgehog Movie #1: They Use The Rings As Replacement For The Stars For The Paramount Pictures Logo #2: Island Locations #3: Jim Carrey As Robotnik, That Guy Is So Funny #4: Sonic Doing The Swish #5: Master Emerald Easter Egg #6: Sonic's Theme Songs #7: Sanic Easter Egg #8: When Sonic Says He Had A Bonus Life That He Had 100 Rings Makes 1 Life From The Games #9: Sonic Calling Robotnik "Eggman" #10: Tails Showing Up In Post Credits Scene

missed opportunity to make every win make a ring chime edit: nevermind, 10:17 was a deliberate choice

"Jaleel White's shoes are not easy to fill." Martin Burke, Ryan Drummond, Jason Griffith, Roger Craig Smith: "Am I a joke to you?"

I honestly was amazed on how this movie made such a turn around From laughing stock of the internet to best video game movie in history

He missed the “That’s no good” reference at 9:31