tcamyuntoldartist

I'm forced to give a 10/10 because i need to compensate for the unexplained forces of evil who jump on here just to give a 1/10. The 7-point-something cumulative score mirrors the movie well. In a perfect world i would be giving a nice strong 7 myself.

This entry to the now series, is strong, it's full of elements that better the already fine Sonic Adventure 2 story, Shadow serves his purpose well and then he has his sacrifice so hopefully no resurrecting and dragging him on and on without real purpose... our characters all are visibly evolving, nobody is the same as they were in the beginning.

But i wish that they let Sonic be the manic element to the movies, and not the movie itself. EVERYTHING is so chuck full of little presents for long time fans as if they were still making the first and supposedly only movie. As if this was their only chance to cram everything in, for the rest of time. The producers are way too concerned with the TIKTOK generation. Don't cater to them gawd dangit, try to bring them back to sanity rather, will you.

I am really looking forward to a little more laid back approach to movie 4 than this "second movie on steroids" which i find alarming on the long run. Imagine the Siberian pub dance-off scene from 2, but a little less stupid, stretched out into almost the whole movie, broken up by the great Shadow&Maria drama bits, and there: Sonic 3. Two characters played by Jim Carrey, it was kinda inevitable to have two times his trademark presence. And i don't blame them because personally i think he is the best thing that ever could have happened to these movies. So i was looking away through all the silliness throughout, saying to myself, f-f-f-fine, let them have fun, up until the nano glove stuff where the two Robotniks begin going at each other with weaponry straight out of Roger Rabbit's Toontown. Come on...

I'm also constantly bugged by Tails, the tech guy of the team he is, just keeping on whipping tech stuff and immense knowledge / insight into brand new situations, out of his copter-butt, tech stuff that would require a 100+ supply chain and chip plants and who knows what else, plus technology that just does not exist. The writers get way too carried away with holograms. Waaaay away.

Even in the actual games, if you lose your Super state due to running out of rings, in space, you just die. A movie should take this a bit further into the realistic realm. But... we get a nice picnic sitting on the Moon, and open eye atmospheric re-entry with actual burning but no consequences.

I'm constantly taken out of the movie by things like that. I can't remember stuff like these from the first two movies. This is why i say they need to take a step or two back, and reiterate some things for a fourth movie, because if not, and they keep on raising the tempo and stakes, while disregarding basic fair questions that pop up in the heads of the thinking viewer, it will be a giant mess.

Overall what happens throughout is fantastic, HOW they happen, considering both their hectic overly speedy nature, and "whatever, doesnt matter, fun movie!" approach, is dragging it down from being a thing i could recommend to any movie goer. I really love what i see and feel whenever the movie comes to a screeching halt. Every Shadow remembrance shot, or when Tom is mistakenly taken out "for good", wow.

This team has it in them to make something truly phenomenal. They just need to dare going on a less goofy path.

...but they somehow managed to put together the first movie.

I loved Lloyd and Harry in the original. They were mean and stupid already, but JUST enough. Tweak it just a little bit upwards, and it would fall apart.

But they didn't "tweak it some up", they threw a bunch of DVD players in a pile all playing the first movie, turned the volume on the attached amplifiers to 11, and stuck a lit stick of dynamite in there.

To be honest the original movie is on a fine line too, with its directors-cut being a much more gross-out type of thing than its tamer, well either theatrical or TV cut, i'm not sure, but as far as i'm concerned, that's the version to see.

The sequel's gross out bits are, while not that horrible on the looks front, way more horrible on the primitive scale.

The overall structure and framing of the story i like, how and why it once again becomes a road movie after a little warmup from the big gap between the OG and this, with more or less real characters surrounding our silly duo. But the jokes that are supposed to be the glue to hold everything together, literally, BARELY ever work.

Well THAT, and our main two characters really became more obnoxious than necessary.

What a pity... :/

It is very hard to come to any sort of coherent verdict over this one, because it is not your typical movie at all. Artsy in as many places as it can have artsy scenes, cuts, two maybe three color high contrast views, and all this to a ton of quite good music. It isn't truly a movie, rather a half breed of a music video and an art film. A gruesome Moonwalker maybe?..

Too bad because it is "this" close to being a decent Bladerunner-esque world. It has the regular low-budget problem of not really being able to convincingly pull off the outside world as something big and lived-in. The rooms and small number of walkways are fine.

Towards the end the "even the director did not know what they wanted to say" gets really strong with this one. But i am sure i'm gonna watch this again at one point. More of an experience than something with rigorous meaning and story to tell.