While Sonic, the blue hedgehog, his friends Knuckles and Tails, as well as their human friends, thought they were taking it easy, they find themselves facing a new adversary: Shadow, Sonic’s alter ego, who looks just like him except that he is black (with a few touches of red), and who has entered into an alliance with Dr. Robotnik, with whom Sonic and his team have already had trouble. How will they be able to protect the planet from these two villains?
Three episodes in four years, the saga adapted from an already successful series of video games is not idle! And it seems, like its predecessors, to have a bright future.
This third part, released this weekend in the United States and Canada, exceeded the expectations of its producers by immediately taking first place at the box office, ahead of “Mufasa”, the prequel to “The Lion King”, raising 62 million dollars (nearly 60 billion euros), according to estimates. In France, the film is released this Wednesday, December 25 in a large number of theaters, more than 800 copies.
A double dose of Jim Carrey
“Sonic 3” therefore uses a well-tested recipe: a clever mix between animation and real images. And therefore comes up against the same pitfalls: if the first is rather successful, the second is difficult to see. And let’s not talk about the special effects or the storyline…
On the other hand, there is a notable difference: we go from one colorful hedgehog to two, which boosts the animation scenes, especially as the pace remains sustained. Same one-upmanship on the side of one of the emblematic villains, Robotnik, always played by a crazy Jim Carrey, who takes the opportunity to also portray, with a lot of prosthetics, the character’s grandfather! Those who were already annoyed by the Canadian actor’s histrionics will suffer from his duplication, downright exhausting… But the work will undoubtedly please the intended targets, children and fans of the video game.