The only thing you really need to know about the new Sonic movie is that there’s a heartfelt quiet scene near the end of the film where the camera zooms in on him, and the theater got completely quiet, and then a two year old voice in the first row just went “Sonic!” and everybody clapped.
It’s not a perfect movie. The plot is cliché, some scenes land a little weirdly. I walked out for 4 minutes to go to the bathroom and didn’t miss anything. But for what it is, and what it was trying to do, it was really fun. Jim Carrey is, of course, amazing, and the guy who voiced Sonic did a really good job. The movie’s emotional scenes, whether they were funny or dramatic, landed correctly and felt right. There was even some funny subplots I wasn’t expecting.
I’d give it a solid B+/A-. If you know who Sonic is, you’ll get a kick out of it. If you think you’ll like it, you will. If you don’t, well, yeah, you can miss this one; it’s not great literature and it won’t win any Oscars.
Still, it bodes well for future video game movies!
