As I go along with a slew of reviews, this is the first of the 2020 films that I haven't reviewed yet but saw. Sonic the Hedgehog came out on Valentine's Day of this year, it starred James Marsden, Jim Carrey and Ben Schwartz, and tells the story of a fast blue hedgehog named Sonic, who teams up with the sheriff of a small town to stop an evil genius from capturing him and doing experiments to gain his power. I'm not going to explain the history of this film because it's been done to death already, I am just here to give my quick and to the point opinion of this movie. I really enjoyed this film. It was fast paced, really funny, charming and has a surprising amount of heart to it. This is an extremely enjoyable family film. Ben Schwartz is fantastic as Sonic, he perfectly captures the energy and humor of the character as seen in some of the games and especially the cartoons of the past. James Marsden works well for his role in the film, and by far, the best part of this movie is Jim Carrey! He absolutely steals every single scene he is in, his physical comedy is always on point, and his charisma here is the best I have seen in a very long time! The animation in this film is very well done, I love the details given to Sonic, all the individual quills and hairs are well defined. The action sequences are also tons of fun. They do rip off the Quicksilver sequences from the X-Men films twice here, but I can look past that considering the main character so it does feel appropriate. As for issues, the story is very generic and so is the message, there is a very unnecessary fart joke about half way through the movie, and there is a scene near the end of the movie that is probably the most blatant and hilarious use of product placement since Transformers: Age of Extinction. Overall, Sonic the Hedgehog is fantastic as a fun family action comedy, the humor is mostly great, the best being from Jim Carrey, it has fun, memorable characters, the action scenes are a blast and the film is definitely a delightful watch.
Grade: B+
Run time: 100 minutes
MPAA: PG (for action, some violence, rude humor and brief mild language)
Studio: Paramount Pictures
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