Sonic the Hedgehog film series general

They also got some animated gifs for Sonic, Tails and Knuckles to celebrate the Lunar year!

Sonicsta, a Sonic youtuber, examines the potential for the sequel to be possibly the best video game movie ever made (which, admittedly, isn't saying much).

What's it competing with? Wreck It Ralph, Detective Pikachu and the movie it's a sequel to?

It's not facing terribly diverse competition in that regard.

Mortal Kombat (the original).

Edited by Gaon on Feb 4th 2022 at 8:10:37 AM

Warcraft is presently the highest-grossing video game film thanks to Chinese gross.

I think we'll handily see Sonic 2 beat that.

You could also make an argument for the first Resident Evil movie and the Prince of Persia movie.

The modern Mortal Kombat is also rather decent.

Haven't seen it myself, but apparently Angry Birds 2 is a surprisingly good movie.

Also the Ratchet & Clank movie is an underrated gem, and probably the most faithful videogame movie out there, down to using the original VAs for the main cast.

I would say that most video game movies at this point haven't quite reached up to the same level as the MCU movies.

Video game movies are getting to the point where the people working on them actually grew up with the games they're adapting (i.e, we're growing past the "it's all beeps-and-bloops and pacman, right?" era), and that translates pretty much directly into higher quality. Look at Detective Pikachu and tell me 99% of the creative staff didn't play Pokemon as kids.

Edited by Chortleous on Feb 6th 2022 at 6:43:37 AM

Also, most of the people who grew up with the games are at that age where they can write effective stories for these video game movies, as well as incorporate the game elements into the movies.

Also video games are losing its stigma. So if a video game movie is bad, today's reviewers will explain why it's bad instead of having a chip on their shoulders that implies they're too good to review a video game movie.

What stigma are video games losing?

The first mortal kombat is good because is mostly enter the dragon with big problem in little china, which is more or less the original two games.

Warcraft is mostly good in that it feel coherent and not that bad.

Mainly that video games are for children and basement-dwellers.

I guess ever since the MCU has shown that comic book movies can be for everyone, the same is starting to hold true for video game movies.

That

I still say World of Warcraft had a helping hand in that regard.

Shame that Warcraft wasn't all that good. Though the only criticism of it I remember is "The human actors aren't as good as the orcs."

I thought it was pretty good.

I did too. I thought it was "alright" at least.

Isn't that a criticism of normal Warcraft, that the non-human faction is more interesting?

I'd argue that's a criticism of any series that has any sentient non-human faction.

I see I don't care about humanity! I want to see <Insert Alien Race here> because their more interesting! all the time.

Makes me think writers have a hard time putting any effort into human races as a whole, and take for granted that people would gravitate towards them.

What do you think the age rating for this movie will be? PG or PG-13?

Since the first movie was rated-PG, I'm pretty sure the sequel will as well. I don't see the need for them to bump the rating up to a PG-13, especially since the first film was definitely aimed towards family audiences.