Unfortunately, the majority of those citations will sail over the heads of the film’s target audience, as well as misfire with their adult companions, considering that this saga is a largely juvenile affair that cares more about slam-bang CGI spectacle and cheesy drama than about saying anything interesting or affecting to mature viewers. An instruction manual designed to resemble the ones that came with Sega Genesis games is the most obvious of those nods, although references to Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Fast and the Furious and other familiar touchstones are also sprinkled throughout this rapid-fire tale. Anyone over the age of 12, however, had best beware.ĭirector Jeff Fowler’s sequel (in theaters April 8) certainly works hard to appeal to Gen-Xers who grew up navigating the bright blue speedster through checkerboard lands marked by bouncy springs and 360-degree loops. A comparable follow-up that whizzes about delivering action, wisecracks, pop-culture allusions and more than a few groan-worthy declarations about the importance of family and the nature of heroism, it’ll surely charm adolescent fans of the first film. Given its grating feistiness, Sonic the Hedgehog’s status as the all-time highest-grossing video game-based movie in America is a depressing indictment of the genre, whose reputation won’t be improved by that blockbuster’s sequel, Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

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