TEN THINGS WE WANT TO SEE IN THE KNUCKLES SHOW!Ĭomics (648) archie (564) ian flynn (329) animations (296) sonic on-going (290) ken penders (170) tracy yardley! (159) the chaotix (122) sonic universe (95) idw (94) japanese cartoons (86) steven butler (86) sonic x (84) julie-su (83) karl bollers (83) rouge the bat (77) art mawhinney (74) shadow (74) aosth (70) geoffrey st.Sonic X, Episode 3.04: An Enemy in Need.Sonic X, Episode 3.05: A Chilling Discovery.Sonic X, Episode 3.06: Desperately Seeking Sonic.Sonic X, Episode 3.07: Galactic Gumshoes. Sonic X, Episode 3.10: An Underground Odyssey.Sonic X, Episode 3.11: Station Break-In.“Sonic the Hedgehog 2” gets a mildly disappointed. But, obviously, a nitpicking nerd like me can't help my contrary nature. I guess I should probably just be grateful that a movie starring Tails the Fox and Knuckles the Echidna exists at all. I'll probably dig it more on a second viewing but, for now, I'm genuinely not sure if I liked it slightly more than the first or slightly less. The “Sonic” franchise is set to continue, which this film's closing minutes eagerly sets up. It's a fun movie and mostly well-assembled. Inevitably, this caused me to come away from the movie a little disappointed. The sequel has the exact opposite problem: We liked the first one, the sequel's trailers were all great, so I was actually excited for part two. We all expected it to be bad and, when it turned out to be decent, it was a pleasant surprise. In my first write-up on the “Sonic 2” trailer, I said that the lowered expectations from that abysmal first trailer actually worked in the first movie's favor. At some point, the people who make these movies are going to have to decide if "Sonic" is a goofy comedy, akin to "Alvin and the Chipmunks" or "The Smurfs," or if they're Paramount's attempt to forge their own universe of epic superhero movies. Yet the film still seems reluctant to leave its small town setting behind, making sure the world-endangering theatrics never feel too severe. As "Sonic 2" goes on, the stakes get higher. We even get a fairly epic exposition dump, brought to life through stunning traditional animation. (And quite different, in a way that didn't entirely sit well with the pedantic nerd side of me.) The film's backstory is full of eons-old rivalries between warring factions, trying to control a massive source of power that change the nature of reality. "Sonic 2" devising its own mythology, separate from the games and comics. The second film is torn between this tone, heavy on the comedy and superfluous subplots starring fleshy humans, and something more akin to the aforementioned Marvel movies. The first movie fit comfortably into the " live-action kids comedy starring a CGI cartoon character" genre, albeit with bigger action set-pieces and more callbacks to the source material. The biggest issue facing the "Sonic" sequel, and maybe the entire film series going forward, is one of tonal identity. Different as their backstories may be, I think "Sonic 2" mostly does right by its characters.
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