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Sonic 2 film review: This year’s Super Mario film has a new bar to clear

Enlarge / Knuckles and Sonic. (credit: Paramount / Sega) Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is the snappy, fun-for-everyone film that the first live-action Sonic film should have been. It’s allegiant to the source games and comics without getting hamstrung by reverence. Its best laughs are earned. Its cheesiest laughs are easy to shrug off. And while […]

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First Sonic 2 film trailer improves on Sonic 1’s weird debut

He’s back to… run fast and say silly things. But that’s not so bad. It’s hard to believe two years have passed since the outcry over Sonic the Hedgehog’s live-action film debut led producers to rethink their toothy, tiny-faced, pointy-nosed version of Sonic. The resulting CGI redo pushed the film’s release date to Valentine’s Day 2020—and for […]