When he accidentally connects with Tom, it’s his chance to do all the things he always wanted to do on Earth, before he has to banish himself to a mushroom planet.
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It’s a chase movie that becomes a road movie, underpinned by Sonic’s yearning desire for companionship. The plot is simple and the emotions are easy to understand (it is decidedly a movie for children or childlike adults, and should be regarded as such). When he discovers clues leading to an alien life form, the doctor sets his sights on tracking and trapping this exciting new discovery, hoping to claim Sonic for scientific research. Robotnik, with his fascist haircut, twirly mustache and high-tech mobile lab, is deemed a “psychological tire fire” by a worried general, he’s dispatched to Montana after Sonic’s solo baseball game generates an electrical surge that causes a power outage all over the Pacific Northwest. This entire review could be dedicated to Carrey’s delightful, outsized and wildly campy performance, feverishly pitched somewhere between “Ace Ventura” and “The Mask”.
But of course, the big news here, and drumroll please, is Jim Carrey’s glorious return to his best rubber-faced, fast-talking form as Sonic’s main antagonist, a secretive government mad scientist named Dr. James Marsden co-stars as Tom Wachowski, the cop who takes Sonic under his care, with Tika Sumpter playing his veterinarian wife, and Adam Pally and Natasha Rothwell in very funny supporting roles. Ben Schwartz voices Sonic, a lonely alien living in exile on Earth for his own safety, where he longs to connect with the humans around him in the small Montana town of Green Hills (one could even describe Sonic as an asylum-seeking refugee who just wants to be accepted in his community).
Sprinkled with Sonic’s hyperspeedy powers and anti-government messages, it’s a little bit “E.T.,” one part “Harry and the Hendersons,” with a dash of “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” and it’s a fun throwback tale for this little blue ball of energy.Īs it turns out, if you write a very funny script, and hire very funny people to perform it, it doesn’t really matter if the movie is about an extraterrestrial hedgehog, or even what he looks like. Writers Patrick Casey and Josh Miller plug those character traits into a story structure that is well-loved and a bit retro, an odd couple road movie about friendship. There are a few hard and fast facts about Sonic: he claims to be a hedgehog, he runs everywhere, he’s from an idyllic island and he has little golden rings that allow him to transport himself anywhere.
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