My Sonic the Hedgehog 2 review

 My Sonic the Hedgehog 2 review 

 

Intro: The people who keep posting spoilers need to get slapped. Seriously, if it were up to me, I would ban people from social media for doing this. If Mr. Trump can get banned, why can't they?

Sonic the Hedgehog 2: This movie takes place 8 months after the events of the first film, and Sonic is using his powers to do good. One day, Dr. Robotnik returns to Earth with an ally, and together they are looking for a MacGuffin that will give him ultimate power for world domination. So, Sonic has to find it before Dr. Robotnik does.

I enjoyed this movie more than the last one, but that's not saying much. I like that this movie builds off the last films, for example, we learned why Sonic was chased out of his homeworld? This movie is more of an action-adventure film than the previous one. The movie focuses mostly on the Sonic characters rather than the human ones. The movie has a subtle message about acceptance. Of course, you can't have a movie like this without easter eggs, and I appreciate the writers trying to be creative with the Sonic lore.  

Sonic is a cocky, confident, wisecracker who goes through a hero's journey. That's my problem with him his hero's journey has no pay-off. Also, I wish he was mature. I mean, the movie treats him like a kid, and that undermines him as a character. 

Tails is just like his video game counterpart as far as being smart. I'm glad that the movie got the voice actress who's voiced this character for over ten years. His dynamic with Sonic is just like in the games as far as having a big brother-little brother relationship. What bugs me about this character is that he serves no purpose in the movie beyond explaining things. 

Knuckles is a noble, naive, and fierce warrior of the Echidna tribe. This is refreshing considering how this character is turned into a joke in certain games. He also provides some of the humor in this movie by taking things literally. My only gripe with him is that the conflict between him and Sonic lacks the emotional weight that it could have had. 

Dr. Robotnik is more diabolical in this movie. Considering that this is Mr. Carry's last movie, I hope this won't be the last time we see this character. After seeing what this movie teased for the third movie, he needs to be in it. This complaint is about Agent Stone (Dr. Robotnik's right-hand man.) The way he misses him makes me question their relationship.

One of the problems with this movie is the climax; it wasn't bad, but something happened that came out of nowhere with no build-up. Plus, it eliminates the tension in the climax. Bringing Sonic characters into the human world was a mistake because giving the humans any screen time takes away the focus from Sonic and the others. There is a twist involving the human characters to get us to care about what's going on with them. It doesn't work because we don't know these people, and the lighthearted tone ruins it. Speaking of tone, you can't take certain things seriously because the tone doesn't match the scene. Some of the effects don't look good, the floss and meow joke still didn't work.   

Overall, this movie didn't break the curse, but it's a step in the right direction.  

Rating = Average