Sonic The Hedgehog

[Pocket]

I wonder if Carrey has ever considered going the Mark Hamill route and getting into voice acting. At a certain point he's going to be too old to play a cartoon character in live-action (or at least characters as young as Stanley Ipkiss or Dr. Robotnik), but he'll have potentially decades left in him for playing them in actual cartoons.

 

[Sabrblade]

At this point, he may have become too expensive to work as a voice actor full time.

 

[MEDdMI]

TMM and I recently marathoned the Sonic 1-3 movies. Neither of us were into the games, we just casually watched some of the cartoons so we're not terribly invested. I mainly wanted to watch them for Jim Carrey.
I half paid attention to some parts in 1 and 2. 3 though, kept my attention and I liked it the best so far.

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Knuckles/Idris' voice joyfully saying "Pika Pika", and of course the scenes with Robotnik. I also enjoy how Dr. Stone is getting gayer and gayer for Robotnik through the movies. With all the times Robotnik switched sides, it didn't feel forced at all, which was surprising. I also enjoyed how anticlimactic Granpy's death was.

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

At this point, he may have become too expensive to work as a voice actor full time.

Could be one of those stunt-casting big motion picture celebrity voice actors. Like, exclusively.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

It would have to be a production that does old school group voice acting sessions. Good luck getting Jim Carrey into a booth and just giving him some lines to read with minimal context. That's just not how he works.

 

[Zamuel]

Did the old army guy die? I wasn't sure. There were no fatalities in the other two Sonic movies, right? But this had a confirmed human fatality and we see how that person actually died, geez.

I'm saying no. While it was left ambiguous, it was mentioned that Commander Walters/GUN Commander was rushed to the hospital and when someone disguised as him showed up, his subordinate didn't have a "I thought you were dead!!!" reaction. On a meta note, it got mentioned that script writers originally planned to kill Tom and backed off due to tone so I don't think GUN Commander is dead. However, they may not have him return for the next movie and could use this injury as why.

There's suppose to be a bio lizard on the satellite? And... Chao being a major thing? And Chaos as blob bosses? Chao got referenced in the theme park but no reference to the Chaos blobs or lizard thing?

The third movie did a good job of distilling and compacting story elements down for a different medium and continuity. Since the first Sonic Adventure wasn't adapted to the movies, major elements from it like Chaos and the Chao aren't in the movie outside of what amounts to an easter egg with the Chao Garden. The blob creatures in SA2 are "Artificial Chaos" but don't need to be in the movie due to the lack of Chaos or the Biolizard.

The Biolizard is a good example of plot changes requiring big deviations. The movie never overtly declares Maria as being terminally ill like in the games. In games, Professor Gerald creates Shadow with alien assistance in attempt to cure Maria. The Biolizard is the failed first attempt at this. If Maria isn't sick and Shadow is an alien who was found rather than created, there was no reason to make the Biolizard part of the movie.

Really good action movie. Could have used more heart (since it's for kids) but I guess it's hard to emotionally resonate when the main emotional thing is suppose to be recovering from someone murdering your sister / close friend or father figure (for kids anyway).

See, I think the movie had plenty of heart. It's just that it comes from recovering from loss--a recurring theme through all three movies. Shadow and Maria was the most overtly on screen but Knuckles and Sonic also had to deal with loss of family.

 

[Sabrblade]

The movie never overtly declares Maria as being terminally ill like in the games. In games, Professor Gerald creates Shadow with alien assistance in attempt to cure Maria. The Biolizard is the failed first attempt at this. If Maria isn't sick and Shadow is an alien who was found rather than created, there was no reason to make the Biolizard part of the movie.

And because Maria wasn't sick, the reason that was given for her being at the military base with Gerald was "she goes everywhere with him". Because she and him were family (and she was probably the only family he had at the time, with Ivo presumably being unreachable at that time, though that does raise a few questions as to Ivo's whereabouts back then and why Gerald seemingly didn't try to find him prior to his 50-year incarceration if family really did mean that much to Gerald back then).

 

[Superomegaprime]

One of the questions with Gerald is, how did he escape from Gun in the first place?

 

[Fero McPigletron]

Side thing but I'm watching Dexter Original Sin (loving the callbacks) and a kid was playing Sonic the Hedgehog on Gamegear. Don't recall the year but they also showed Parker Lewis Can't Lose on TV. Dunno if the years match up.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Sonic 3 finally fell out of the top 5 for the weekend. It was #6.

It was still #4 for the week though. But the schedule is getting crowded, and Sonic 3 got kicked out of a lot of theaters. That will likely prevent it from pulling a bunch of Sonic 2 style rebounds.