A few weeks back,
Red Diamond and I decided to check out the new
Sonic the Hedgehog film. While I initially had no plans to review this particular film, I felt motivated to do so after seeing all the effort on the part of the production to...correct...some rather infamous glaring issues.
Video game films tend to have a, not all undeserved, reputation for terrible quality and when this film was first announced last year, it looked like that statement would continue to hold water.
And it all had to do with the design of Sonic himself.
Being as honest and as frank as possible, Sonic looked like absolute dogshit in the very first teaser posters and trailers. Looking far too cartoony to be real but far too realistic-looking to ever be considered cartoon cute, the original Sonic design essentially took a massive deuce in the uncanny valley.
And the internet made sure that absolutely everybody knew about it.
It was actually kind of incredible to watch a video game movie implode before it even reached the theatres in real-time. The design of Sonic could've very nearly sunk the entire project just from the teaser alone. It was then that the production team behind the
Sonic the Hedgehog film decided to delay the film's release and completely revamp Sonic's design.
The result is what was delivered to theatres. A level of post-production on this scale for a video game movie due to public backlash is almost unheard of. And it is an incredible achievement what the CGI artists were able to accomplish. I felt like I had to support such a project.
Perhaps studios would listen to real audience feedback instead of "supposed" audience feedback.
So how did the film turn out? Is it an amazing work of art? Or is it like nearly every other video game movie?
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