The thing with making a Sonic film is that, from memory, you don’t really have much to work with, there’s not a big back story, he’s a blue hedgehog who runs fast collecting rings, from there the canvas is pretty clear, so what do you do with everyone’s favourite blue hedgehog on the big screen?
Well it seems you make an ok adventure film, now while I’m not really the target audience, I do have fond memories of the game so gave it a spin and to be honest while it won’t live long in the memory it was plenty enjoyable enough while I was there.
We follow Sonic on a quest to reach a new world, along the way he loses and must retrieve his rings while been pursued by Jim Carrey’s Dr Robotnik, pretty much the Sonic staple story line.
The screen creation of Sonic is solid enough and is well voiced by Ben Schwarz and alongside his companion Tom, played by James Marsden, there’s plenty of witty lines and some fun set pieces as they look to retrieve the lost rings.
Jim Carrey, Carrey’s Robotnik up in exactly the way you’d expect, with plenty of manic physical comedy alongside delivering his own bad guy funnies.
Sonic is pretty middling stuff, but entertaining enough to fill its short run time and plenty of kids in a packed Sunday showing were having a great time, harmless, enjoyable enough, blue hedgehog fun.
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