'Sonic the Hedgehog' trailer: Jim Carrey goes full supervillain against toothy video-game icon
Imagine a movie based on Sonic the Hedgehog, with "Gangster's Paradise" on the soundtrack, starring Jim Carrey as a scenery-chewing villain. Sounds like something out of an alternate-reality 1996, but no, it's coming to theaters this November! Watch the first trailer for the live-action comedy, above.
In Sonic the Hedgehog, based on the star of the 1991 Sega Genesis game and several dozen subsequent video games, the speedy blue creature (voiced by Ben Schwartz) touches down on Earth, where he befriends a small-town sheriff (James Marsden) and must stop Dr. Robotnik (aka Eggman, played by Jim Carrey) from conquering the planet.
The trailer focuses mainly on Carrey, who's doing the sort of rubber-faced, over-the-top comic performance that was once his calling card. But Twitter can't look away from the digitally-rendered Sonic: specifically, his freaky, human-like teeth.
WHY ARE HIS TEETH SO HUMAN pic.twitter.com/qanTExwjJI
— Preeti Chhibber (@runwithskizzers) April 30, 2019
Sonic the Hedgehog (2019) pic.twitter.com/MwUVUZyBdg
— Stephen Schulze (@Jackablade) April 30, 2019
Why the hell did they give #Sonic human ass lookin' teeth? Not even what hedgehog teeth look like pic.twitter.com/SpvOnaX8zy
— Objurgo (????) (@Objurgo_Sol) April 30, 2019
"Shall we make the new sonic cute?"
"NO. GIVE IT HUMAN TEETH. MAKE IT LOOK LIKE A SMURF BADGER. MAKE IT TERRIFYING CHILDREN AND HUMANS ALIKE"
"but"
"NIGHTMARISH SMURF BADGER"— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) April 30, 2019
sonic the hedgehog (2019), character design planning meeting pic.twitter.com/YSFcB9HKrI
— alexis nedd (@alexisthenedd) April 30, 2019
I still find this new sonic design to be a little uncanny valley pic.twitter.com/yerC6JZMWW
— Nick Usen (@nickusen) April 30, 2019
The bizarrely human-sized Sonic is also getting comparisons to another digitally rendered character who flummoxed fans.
Aladdin: we have a really bad blue character rendered in our film.
Sonic the hedgehog: hold my beer. pic.twitter.com/7TCx26QCaj— Almeida (@Qaxus) April 30, 2019
Safe to say that the Sonic the Hedgehog trailer is not what fans expected. But there's at least one reason to look forward to the film.
Wow, the SONIC THE HEDGEHOG trailer looks terrible.
[flash forward six months when I rent SONIC THE HEDGEHOG and it keeps the kids occupied for 90 minutes]
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG is better than THE GODFATHER.— Steven Hyden (@Steven_Hyden) April 30, 2019
Sonic the Hedgehog opens in theaters this November.
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