I don’t get Sonic The Hedgehog. No, I’m not talking
about the ravenous fanbase, or even having a dig at the games themselves
(although it must be said that the Sonic games aren’t the kind to do things
small; when they’re bad, they’re really bad); I’m talking strictly in
terms of the character himself. He’s a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog who can
run faster than anything else, and he has a really cocky attitude. That’s
pretty much it. I don’t claim to be the biggest Sonic afficionado out there,
but I’ve gone through enough Let’s Play osmosis to have seen the games and,
even considering the competition, this has to be one of the trickiest games to
give the big-screen treatment. A trick that these filmmakers just didn’t seem
to get right.
