Letterboxed

I have not seen the stage version and I found it mostly enjoyable until the second half which really felt random and tacked on, I half wondered if it had been added to pad out the show. Apparently it was just severely gutted, which also explains why the show went from being constant singing to… Very little singing and a lot of exposition.

It feels like they had a mediocre “CGI Animal.and Human Friend” movie in the bag before the fan backlash over how ugly Sonic looked. They corrected some bits but it was too much to just dump the medicare core.

The best take away I have from this film, which feels like a made for TV movie plot on a blockbuster CGI budget is that hopefully they learned their lesson and the sequel will lean harder on the “Sonic Lore.”

There is a brief glipse of a proper “Sonic World” and it’s really gorgeous and we kind of need more of that and less…. Sonic rides in a pickup, for half the movie.

Also “Donut Lord” ended up coming off as more clever than expected when I realized that duuuh, Donuts are Rings.

It was ok, though the soundtrack felt really out of place and the movie really wanted to make Pena and Tom the villains even though they did nothing wrong.

At one point a kid asks what happens when he pees as Ghost Rider.

So yeah.

Amusing and cute.