Someone on here mentioned in a post that Ben Schwartz should pull a Jason Griffith and also voice Shadow and honestly I think that’s probably the most interesting take I’ve seen. We’ve seen this lovely man play goofy rolls (no complaints with that) and it would be neat to witness him channel that type of range.
Let Shadow have a motorcycle in Sonic 3 this, let Shadow have a gun in Sonic 3 that. Forget that and let my boy beat the ever loving shit out of someone with a street sign like in Shadow the Hedgehog 2005.
I don’t know if it’s been discussed already, but something that really impressed me about Sonic 2 is how the set up Robotnik’s sheer brilliance from the very first minute.
I feel like Sonic 1 mainly showed how smart he is, always in control of the situation and with enough resources to shift the tide if things change. Sonic 2 in comparison focuses a lot on his sheer determination, how far he’s willing to push, to plan ahead and stick to it to the last consequences, to become a god among men and rule over them all. And it all started with “I’ll be home by Christmas!” at the end of the first movie and that incredibly complex trap he set up for the three scavengers and Knuckles at the start of this new movie. That’s a seriously impressive moment, by the way.
I brought this side of Eggman’s character up months ago when I notedhis plan in Sonic 3 and how he did not let it gountil the very last second of the game, and the second Sonic movie felt like I was watching exactly that. Ever since the minute he came back to Earth he didn’t treat Sonic with the same smart, professional attitude like in Sonic 1, this time he was out for blood because the hedgehog would stop his plans otherwise. He kept his witty comments, but he wasn’t playing games at all after being banished to the Mushroom Planet for so long. He literally set up a horror movie scene at Sonic’s house as his entrance, lol.
And while he may not have suceeded at first, he took control of the situation, executed his plan perfectly and when it was time to handle the betrayal, he waited for his chance, spoke in a low voice when he tried to backstab Knuckles until Sonic interrupted that. Then, a new opportunity arose: distract the fools, grab the Emerald, be untouchable. So clean and elegant.
A similar thing happens at the end, in a moment I was actually waiting to repeat Eggman’s “gotcha!” moment in Unleashed’s intro. As Super Sonic enters the scene and starts to tear the mech apart, he takes a step back and tries to reason with him, to reach a fake middle ground in an attempt to lure Sonic into a false sense of security before striking back. It didn’t work, of course, but we know that exact move has worked at least once in the game series before, and I think that’s what makes that moment in the movie so damn cool.
I may be rambling a bit by now since I’m still trying to piece together what I think of the movie overall, but that’s what impressed me the most of Robotnik in Sonic 2. Even at the end of the movie his fate is unclear, and while that may have to do with decisions outside of the movie itself, I like the idea Eggman will just vanish and leave everyone wondering if he’s really gone or not, while also setting up Stone as a future main threat. It’s like the mystery of Eggman’s fate at the end of Sonic Forces but, y’know, good.
Okay but actually I think one of my fav scenes in this movie of all things is the one really early on where Tom and Maddie are leaving for Hawaii and Sonic set up an entire play-TSA checkpoint for them to go through. + the clowning on Tom for his choice of Hawaiian shirt, lmao, that was gold. It’s all so cute. I love this family
I don’t want him to be dead but it would objectively be incredibly hilarious if his last words were “see you later, haters!!” Like imagine saying that and then immediately fucking dying. It’s like that Dril tweet.
If not for Jeff Fowler as director I’d say this was a coincidence or a throwaway line, but he knows his Shadow lore. It seems strange that the filmmakers would specifically mention 50 years instead of some other amount. If Shadow is meant to be referenced here it could be a super interesting way to keep the human characters relevant. A “sins of the father” type deal should Shadow meet the son of the man from his past.
No but actually I’m getting emotional cuz I really badly want them to emulate SA2 for the Sonic 3 movie SA2 had a great story it was just burdened with plotholes and shit since the focus was on gameplay but now that they have the chance to bring the SA2 story to its full cinematic potential is really doing something to me
i need you all to know that when stone said “take me with you doctor!” and got scooped up by robotnik’s chaos magic shit with a big smile on his face despite literally being dangled upside down i literally whispered under my breath “of course you would like that you little freak”
One thing I haven’t seen anyone mention is how Tom went into full Papa Wolf mode and just started punching out G.U.N. soldiers the second they arrested Sonic. The second they threatened Tom’s son, Knuckles stopped being the only one to throw punches in this movie, and I loved it.
