Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Rated: PG for violence and brief language
We live in a world where films based off of video games are not great. That's not to say some are really good, but the bad outweigh the good most of the time. For the first Sonic the Hedgehog movie, I was happy to take my son who loves the video games, and I admit I am a gamer myself. I have loved the Sonic games since I was in seventh grade when the first Sonic the Hedgehog came out on the Sega Genesis. I had the Super Nintendo and my friend had the Sega Genesis, and when I was at his house, we loved playing the Sonic games. However, I know that sometimes films made about video games are terrible. (Take Borderlands for instance, It is terrible).
I took my son, and both of us really enjoyed the first Sonic movie, and when they announced a sequel, I thought it was just going to be a cash grab by the studios because there is no way that the sequel would live up to the first movie, and guess what? I liked the second one even more than the first film. Now we have Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and I have to be brutally honest, I really enjoyed it. I feel it's better than the two previous movies, and with a mid-credit scene, we are treated to a new character with a cliffhanger ending. There is also a ten second scene at the very end of the credits as well.
The story set-up is when we see a high-tech lab with some tubes with some kind of liquid in them and one of the tubes contains another hedgehog called Shadow. He has a sad backstory, but he has a neat power that the others don't have. When he fights people, he is able to teleport himself, a lot like Nightcrawler in the second X-Men movie. He also has a backstory that is kind of sad, so when he breaks out, this new hedgehog, named Shadow, starts to wreak havoc, and Sonic, Tails and Knuckles must travel and try to stop Shadow before he destroys everything. That's all I will say for now, but the plot was actually engaging and fun.
Jim Carrey pulls double duty, both as Doctor Robotnic and another character which I will not say here for spoiler reasons, but it's fun. The rest of the cast is okay, but Keanu Reeves as the voice of Shadow was a lot of fun too. The voice actors all around them good. The only thing I have a problem with the cast is that James Marsden and the rest of the humans that are part of 'Team Sonic" help in some parts of the film, but they aren't used to their full capabilities.
This is film that I have to critique using two different mindsets. The first is as an adult, I found some of the jokes or plot holes here and there, but having two of my kids with me, and there were a ton of kids in the audience were having a blast. The movie is good, and it's got some fun comedic jokes, although they don't work at times, but there is a lot of fun action. The PG rating is right, but there are a couple of mild swearwords, (Like ones you would say if you accidentally stepped on your kid's Lego bricks,).
The fighting scenes are really cool because of the teleportation moves that Shadow has. The violence in the film isn't graphic, and Sonic has bad guys he has to fight in the video games, and the same is for the movie. The violence isn't graphic, and it is just fine for the younger kids to watch.
If I was reviewing the film as a kid, I would probably love it a ton. The kids were going nuts, and even my two kids left the theater saying how much they loved it. I have to admit, this film is even better that the first two, which I thought were a lot of fun. It may not win any major awards, but it is still a great time at the movies, and with the holiday breaks coming up, I think this is one the whole family can enjoy together.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is rated: PG for violence and brief mild language.
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