Hi Folks and fellow Geeks
Went to see Sonic the Hedgehog 2 at the weekend. The sequel to the 2020 original has come out quickly to say there are a lot of visual effects. This is because there are 2 new animated characters in the film. Tails and Knuckles (voiced by Idris Elba).
The film starts with Dr Robotnik, (Jim Carrey who again steals the film) finding a way off the mushroom planet that Sonic stranded him on at the end of the last film. He meets Knuckles who is also after Sonic as he believes Sonic can lead him to a powerful emerald. Obviously Dr Robotnik sticks with Knuckles so he can take the emerald and have ultimate power.
Tails has seen what is happening from his own planet and arrives to help Sonic as he is a fanboy.
In the meantime Sonic's adopted family Tom and Maddie (James Marsden and Tika Sumpter) leave Sonic alone to visit Maddies sister Rachel and attend her island wedding.
What follows is one big chase film with Dr Robotnik and Knuckles chasing Sonic and Tails and finding the powerful emerald.
Overall - the film is good with great visuals and action scenes. Again Jim Carrey is brilliant. Although at the end his body is missing which makes me wonder if he'll be back for a third as he recently announced his retirement from acting. It would be a shame if he wasn't involved. The end does tease the baddie for the third film - Shadow, the evil Sonic clone. I feel that would be similar to this film where Knuckles was the antagonist, then became good.
There is a huge boring scene in the middle of the film at Rachel's wedding where the man she is marrying is undercover for the FBI and he is just marrying her to capture Sonic, yet she hardly sees Sonic and lives at the other side of the country so that didn't make sense at all. The ending also was all over the place and felt rushed. Like the writers ran out of ideas.
Bels Score - 8.5/10
My Score - 8/10
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