User:Stephenfisher2001/sandbox/Sonic the Hedgehog (2019) (Alternate Universe)

Sonic the Hedgehog is a 2019 American-Japanese adventure comedy film loosely based on the video game franchise of the same name by mh:awesomegames:Sega. It stars Ben Schwartz as the title character Sonic and Jim Carrey as his nemesis Doctor Ivo Robotnik, as well as James Marsden as Sonic's human companion and Green Hills sheriff Tom Wachowski.

Sony Pictures acquired the film rights to Sonic the Hedgehog from Sega in 2013, and officially gave the green-light at a private joint Sega/Sony Pictures press conference. In October 2017, due to financing issues, Sony sold the film rights to Paramount, who retained the film's production staff.

Summary
Sonic is an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog from another world, fleeing to Earth to escape the villains who want to harness his supersonic energy. After accidentally causing a power outage while hiding out in the town of Green Hills, Montana, he is targeted by the government, who hires the eccentric scientist, Dr. Ivo Robotnik, to hunt him down. Ex-SFPD officer turned Green Hills sheriff Tom Wachowski must help Sonic evade capture, collect all the rings and prevent Robotnik from using Sonic's powers to rule the world.

Why It Should Be Destroyed By Eggman

 * 1) It is very unfaithful to the video game franchise and completes misses the spirit of what made the video games that it was loosely based on so special, famous and iconic. The setting for the movie, the atmosphere, the characters, and the writing have hardly any connection to the video game series at all. It instead just comes off as another pandering cash grab that exists to only cash in on a nostalgic icon.
 * 2) Turnaround Deal: Initially, Sony Pictures owned the rights to create the film, however, due to financing issues, this movie jumped ship to Paramount Pictures. It would have been preferable for the film to have jumped ship to Warner Bros.
 * 3) Extremely poor grasp of the source material. For example, Sonic's fur can go electric when his emotions are particularly strong, a feature never exhibited in any other continuity.
 * 4) False advertising and Misleading title: Despite the film being titled Sonic the Hedgehog, he gets hardly any screen time in this movie at all, and looks almost nothing like a hedgehog at all.
 * 5) The story for the most part is another one of those cliché Hollywood films where a human character meets an anthropomorphic character, they don't get along and eventually become friends, and they cause tons of mayhem as the movie progresses.
 * 6) Speaking of being cliché, the film has absolutely no variation in the writing compared to other films similar to it.
 * 7) On top of that, shameless pop-culture references from lots of other movies. For example, Garfield, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Hop and The Smurfs.
 * 8) Tons of plot holes. For example, even though he can avoid missiles, Sonic can't avoid a tranquilizer dart.
 * 9) One of the biggest problems with the movie is that the character designs are incredibly unfaithful, even worse compared to most other film adaptations of video games. For example, Sonic himself looks like an alien child with a male voice rather than a hedgehog. In fact, he doesn't even look like a real hedgehog, he looks more like a giant Over the Hedge RJ painted blue, or perhaps a giant Smurf cosplaying Sonic with miniature Shrek eyes, longer abdomen, blue arms, no gloves at all, white belly, stubby nose, humanoid proportions and crappy shoes.
 * 10) Continuing on with the previous pointer, while the title sequence is decent as its own thing, it differs way too much from the Sonic the Hedgehog video game logo for no apparent reason.
 * 11) Tom Wachowski is an incredibly uninteresting and unnecessary character, and he's nothing more than a complete retread of James Marsden's past role as Fred O'Hare from Hop.
 * 12) Ben Schwartz and Jim Carrey are both seriously miscast as Sonic and Dr. Eggman. Schwartz sounds too old and bored as Sonic, and his performance sounds bland most of the time. Carrey's humor and performance don't match with Eggman's personality from the games, and he was only cast as Eggman so the movie could cash in on his humor. Also, his humor is just a retread of his past performances from the '90s.
 * 13) Tons of rampant product placement. Particularly Sonic's iconic shoes that Sega could never imagine him without are replaced with Pumas.
 * 14) Unfunny and bland humor, like the scene where Tom is carrying Sonic in a bag, and people ask him if he's got a child in there.
 * 15) Awful direction from Jeff Fowler, who also directed Gopher Broke.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Despite its flaws, some of the visual effects are very good.
 * 2) Good soundtrack.

Reception
The film was heavily panned by critics, audience, and fans of the franchise, reaching a 3% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 129 reviews, with an average rating of 1.1/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "With a terrifying design for its protagonist and an admittedly fine excuse for Jim Carrey to tap into the manic energy that launched his career, this is a textbook example of why video games shouldn't be turned into movies when in inappropriate hands". on Metacritic, it received a 5/100 indicating "overwhelming dislike" while on IMDb, the film has a score of 1.5/10.

As a result, it became featured on Wikipedia's "films considered the worst" page and So Bad, It's Horrible by TV Tropes (along with the trailer).