Director: Jeff Fowler

Cast: Jim Carrey, Ben Schwartz, Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba

Synopsis:

Sonic the Hedgehog returns to the big screen this holiday season in his most thrilling adventure yet. Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. With their abilities outmatched in every way, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance in hopes of stopping Shadow and protecting the planet.

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Aren’t video game adaptations supposed to be cursed? Tell that to Sonic The Hedgehog 3, the strongest showing yet from Paramount’s blue-blur franchise. Director Jeff Fowler comes full circle after working on animations for 2005’s Shadow The Hedgehog platformer, benefiting from existing connections to SEGA’s gun-happy bad-boy hedgehog.

Writers Pat Casey, Josh Miller, and John Whittington formulate Sonic’s latest adventure well, going all-in on the strangeness of these animalian aliens. The film is passionate about Sonic’s lore, as made evident by direct Sonic Adventure 2 and Shadow The Hedgehog callbacks, but that doesn’t supersede its familial appeal. Sonic The Hedgehog 3 is an action-packed blast from start to finish that should please even the prickliest Green Hill Zone groupies.

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