Never mind the teeth, 'Sonic the Hedgehog' was one of the first major video games with an environmentalist narrative. Here's what the filmmakers missed.
There’s a scene in “Sonic the Hedgehog” in which the blue hero rushes to the Pacific Ocean and returns in an instant, bringing with him pollutants and a flopping fish. The fish is left on the beach by Sonic, presumably to die, this despite the hyper-fast creature having the ability to return it to water in the blink of an eye.isn’t particularly interested in the themes of “Sonic the Hedgehog” the game..
And yet there was clear hunger for the “Sonic the Hedgehog” film — it finished the holiday weekend with. While there’s a trail of failed video game adaptations in “Sonic’s” wake, last year’s “Pokémon Detective Pikachu” notwithstanding, “Sonic” has thus far proven to be the rare exception when it comes to melding games with cinema; here is a character we apparently want to watch as well as interact with.
Sonic’s home here is a cave that looks and feels like every child’s clubhouse dream, overrun with comic books and fitted with a beanbag chair. While Sonic is in possession of superhero-like speed that’s essentially capable of stopping time, the frenetic action of the games is replaced with the speed limits of American highways, as a significant chunk of “Sonic the Hedgehog” settles into a road trip movie.
But this is a different Sonic than the one introduced in a 1991 video game for Sega’s Genesis console. The Sonic of Hollywood is adrift and lonely, his power fueled by the bonds of friendship. The Sonic of the game is on a mission to reclaim the world from Dr. Robotnik, who is stripping the land of its resources and causing animal extinction by way of replacing life by ensnaring it in machinery.
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