Robotnik (Carrey) and his unending army of high-tech drones. Specifically, the shady, angry, and self-aggrandizing genius Dr. After accidentally running too fast, Sonic causes a massive power outage, drawing the attention of the government. He ends up in Green Hills, MT, where strives for a friendship with the sheriff, Tom (James Marsden), and his wife Maddie (Tika Sumpter). He has fled his own planet/dimension/CGI animal area because he’s got fast powers and evil badgers want them.
Jeff Fowler’s movie finds Sonic (voiced by Ben Schwartz) living in secret on Earth. And really, despite colorful characters and frenetic gameplay, what most people know of Sonic the Hedgehog is a little critter runs real fast and grabs rings. The problem with adapting a video game to the screen is maintaining the pillars of what makes people like the source, while also making it work for people who’ve never played it before. So what could Paramount possibly do with Sonic for a movie? They smartly cast Jim Carrey as Robotnik, is what they did. In the ’90s, the game spawned two animated series one tried to be a gritty sci-fi story, while the other was zany to the point of irritation.
While the long-running Sega flagship series has a legion of rabid (and randy) followers, it’s not exactly ripe for live-action filmdom.
Even before the disastrous first trailer necessitated a full re-rendering of the title character, the idea of a Sonic the Hedgehog feature film seemed bizarre.