I quite liked the first Sonic - a bit of entertaining and harmless fun but Sonic 2 tries to advance on the first one and - sadly - falls flat on its face.
Jim Carrey, as the brilliant but sadistic scientist just becomes a parody of ....Jim Carrey.
You can see how he's trying to emulate The Mask but somehow, it just doesn't come off. In the mask, we were rooting for him and loved his charmingly boyish fantasies materialise due to Loki's mask, but in Sonic 2, he's trying to be nasty, funny, appealing and repulsive at the same time. Nothing seems to fit, yet it's never even explained why he would bother dedicating his entire endeavours to destroying Sonic... Nobody will be watching this movie a second time and most people will forget the thin and unengaging plot.
The sad thing is that they didn't need to spend all that money on the CGI. They could have made a better screenplay and had the characters be more human, interesting and complex. Instead all the characters are just boring cardboard cutouts.
Don't watch this movie. I did and feel bad about the wasted time.
I watched the film, so you don't have to.
Jim Carrey, as the brilliant but sadistic scientist just becomes a parody of ....Jim Carrey.
You can see how he's trying to emulate The Mask but somehow, it just doesn't come off. In the mask, we were rooting for him and loved his charmingly boyish fantasies materialise due to Loki's mask, but in Sonic 2, he's trying to be nasty, funny, appealing and repulsive at the same time. Nothing seems to fit, yet it's never even explained why he would bother dedicating his entire endeavours to destroying Sonic... Nobody will be watching this movie a second time and most people will forget the thin and unengaging plot.
The sad thing is that they didn't need to spend all that money on the CGI. They could have made a better screenplay and had the characters be more human, interesting and complex. Instead all the characters are just boring cardboard cutouts.
Don't watch this movie. I did and feel bad about the wasted time.
I watched the film, so you don't have to.