This article explores the unique blend of cultural references and character archetypes in the Sonic the Hedgehog movie franchise.
Even by cartoon standards, Sonic the Hedgehog doesn’t look much like a hedgehog. But nor presumably was he ever meant to. When he made his debut as a video game mascot in 1991, his cute-but-edgy look – big eyes, spiky blue mane – hinted his Japanese designers might have taken some cues from characters like Speedy Gonzales or the Road Runner.
In his current big-screen incarnation, where he’s voiced by US comic Ben Schwartz, he’s said to be from outer space and resembles a non-canine member of Paw Patrol, fighting crime alongside a couple of fluffy associates of similarly indeterminate species. OK, technically, Knuckles (Idris Elba) is an echidna and Tails (Colleen O’Shaughnessy) is a fox, but I can’t be the only one who had to check the Sonic wiki for confirmation. with a trio of mischievous critters running rings around their human foster dad, played by a more than usually self-effacing James Marsden – a character invented for the part-live-action Sonic movie franchise launched by Paramount in 2020, with Jeff Fowler directing all three films. The real star of the trilogy, however, is Jim Carrey as gurning steampunk mad scientist Dr Ivo Robotnik, otherwise known as Dr Eggman, the long-term villain in the Sonic game world. Carrey takes on a second role as Dr Robotnik’s lookalike grandpa, which doesn’t especially stretch his talents, though it does double the number of movie characters he’s played this decade. Sonic also now has a doppelganger: Shadow the Hedgehog, voiced by Keanu Reeves, who counters our hero’s brash optimism with a melancholy stemming from his traumatic past.It’s the kind of cross-cultural mash-up that might be intriguingly baffling if it wasn’t more or less the norm in present-day Hollywoo
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