My Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review

 My Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review 

Intro: OK, I'd better not see or hear Shadow asking for a gun. 

After I saw the movie. Oh! Come on!!! 

Sonic the Hedgehog 3: Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles are recruited to help capture another hedgehog name Shadow. Shadow proves to be too much for the trio to handle, so they turn to Dr Robotnik for help. Things get complicated when someone from Dr Robotnik's past shows up with plans of his own. So the trio has to stop him before it's too late. 

The third time is the charm! This is a franchise that gets better with each entry. The movie is loosely based on the story from SA2, and it's adapted tastefully for the most part. In fact, it fixed an element from that story that was lacking. A popular song from that game is incorporated in a way that makes sense. The jokes are better as well, despite being cringy at times. Heck, it even broke the fourth wall. The action scenes could remind you of DBZ, and the movie is well-paced. The human characters are put in their place in this movie. Pain is the theme of this movie. We see how characters are affected by it.  

Sonic is more or less the same character; this movie captures his impatience. The only gripe I have with him is that the writers tried to parallel him with Shadow, and it doesn't work.  

I don't have much to say about Tails and Knuckles; they feel like supporting characters. I was hoping that Knuckles would put up a better fight against Shadow, and he made a dumb decision. 

Shadow is a tortured character full of anger. What makes him different from his video game counterpart is that he doesn't have amnesia. What bugs me about him ( Besides the fact that he's too fast and powerful for a motorcycle and a gun) is that he has a Martha moment. What the fudge!?! I'm just kidding. I'm annoyed that his backstory suffers from lazy writing. For example, the film doesn't explain one of his abilities from the games. Also, I wish he was more like his video game counterpart instead of an edgelord.   

Dr. Robotnik has let himself go in this movie to look like his video game counterpart. When he gets out of his funk, he chews up the scenery. When he meets his distant relative, you feel happy and sad for him. My complaint with him is that we don't know what caused him to be in the state that he was in at the beginning of the film. He didn't have a strong reaction to what he learned about his relative. This makes me wish we had a movie focused on him. 

Dr. Gerald Robotnik ( Ivo Robotnik's grandfather) is just like his grandson, but worse. I have mixed feelings about the creative liberties the writers took with this character. On one hand, I understand why he's in the movie; on the other hand, it makes no sense. I understand his motivation, but he shouldn't be so driven by it because A the movie doesn't reinforce it. B he has his grandson. It's a shame the movie doesn't take advantage of how he and his grandson parallel each other instead of having them be goofy. 

The movie has the nerve to get us to feel sorry for Agent Stone, but it didn't work. You can't have him wanting Dr Robotnik to consider him a friend, a joke, and then have us take that intent seriously. Plus, the last movie had some gay undertones. Agent Stone needs some self-respect. Since we're getting a fourth film, the writers should have gone in a different direction with him. Really, this character should have been Snively.          

One of the problems with this movie is that it could have done a better job of adapting elements from SA2. The comedy ruined the stakes and emotional moments in the movie. There are times when you have to suspend your disbelief. We could have gotten more characters from the Sonic lore if the Knuckles series wasn't a waste of time!!! The fact that Paramount thinks that you know who is too sexy is ridiculous. It's not like furries are going to see this movie, or am I wrong about that? 

Speaking of characters, Krysten Ritter's character is wasted in this movie. I wish this was the last movie because the fourth film could be underwhelming because of how this movie ended. Speaking of the ending, it downplays everything that happened in this movie. Also, the director didn't have the guts to "censor " the human characters. A minor complaint is that I'm surprised that Jaleel White didn't make a cameo in any of these movies. Plus, the movie should have been longer because parts of the film feel rushed.  

Overall, this is the second-best video game movie. I wouldn't recommend this if you don't like the other movies. 

Rating = Worth Seeing