The Sonic movie surpasses Detective Pikachu for most successful video game movie box office opening

Paulsar99 · Feb 19, 2020

They listened to fans and even delayed the movie to rework sonic's horrible face. I think they deserve to get rewarded. Jim carrey was also a pretty good robotnik eventhough I was already thinking he's just going to go ace ventura for his part.

Cha0tic · Feb 19, 2020

I don't think many people here understand this is a family movie, something parents can take their kids to see and get a laugh and some time with their family. A lot of adults know who sonic is, a lot of kids know who sonic is and that's all they care about. I know my family went and enjoyed it, from the bit I've seen it's a solid movie.

Just obnoxious to see people here call it shit when they aren't even the target audience, or just because you don't like it it's not garbage. Obviously not that bad considering it beat Pikachu. Yes I said Pikachu, you think kids cared about the story of detective Pikachu? No it's Pikachu and pokemon.

Anyways it made me laugh a bit and I enjoyed it for what it is.

eskinner3742 · Feb 19, 2020

I get tired of hearing people hate on things they haven't tried or just base their biase on hear say. Sure, the film was flawed in ways, the games are hit or miss at times, and the Sonic community is all over the place. But can't we put the toxicity and criticism aside for a moment and give the talent involved a deserving round of applause for a job well done? I for one am glad it's doing well. The movie was really good for what it was, which was a cheesey, tongue in cheek humor, ad placement filled, somewhat cringey, yet charming kids/family film.

x65943 · Feb 19, 2020

There is a dark part of my soul that wants the original to leak

Sabotage0 · Feb 19, 2020

x65943 said:
There is a dark part of my soul that wants the original to leak

Directors cut blu-ray special edition

raxadian · Feb 19, 2020

Boesy said:
Christ, it's embarrassing that France and Germany don't take voice acting seriously. If they're going to hire a nobody, then give that chance to someone who's starting his/her career than a wannabe celebrity.

Is a shame because Sonic is HUGE in France.

osaka35 · Feb 19, 2020

Weird, my theater was mostly empty. I was 1 of 6 people opening day. But i went at 1pm and not after school had let out. Still, though. Hope they put a bit more thought and heart into the second one. It's sonic. Go weird, go thoughtful, go...well, as coherent as you can. Wonder if they'll take any ideas from the comics or just go with games and make up their own lore.

Cha0tic said:
I don't think many people here understand this is a family movie, something parents can take their kids to see and get a laugh and some time with their family. A lot of adults know who sonic is, a lot of kids know who sonic is and that's all they care about. I know my family went and enjoyed it, from the bit I've seen it's a solid movie.

Just obnoxious to see people here call it shit when they aren't even the target audience, or just because you don't like it it's not garbage. Obviously not that bad considering it beat Pikachu. Yes I said Pikachu, you think kids cared about the story of detective Pikachu? No it's Pikachu and pokemon.

Anyways it made me laugh a bit and I enjoyed it for what it is.

I agree, it's not shite. But for me, there's a large difference between a family movie and a kids movie.

A family movie is what pixar puts out and most of dreamwork's stuff. Accessible, well-rounded, heart-felt, well-written, funny for any age-range. Everyone loves these

A kid's movie is what smurfs or uglydolls are. Jokes aimed at kids, tend to be cookie-cutter, generic emotional hooks with no real heart, usually with a boring-yet-faulty plot. Not terrible to watch, but not exactly something you want to watch more than once.

For me, sonic was somewhere inbetween. A lot of generic stuff, none of the emotional stuff resonated, and really weird plot stuff that aaaaalmost made sense. But it's definitely better than smurfs/uglydolls. Competed better with the detective pikachu movie, though the pokemon movie was better in its structure and concept for me.

But yeah, not shite. Just no wreck-it-ralph.

Pipistrele · Feb 19, 2020

gamesquest1 said:
I can't help but feel the hideous original sonic design was part of some sneaky marketing strategy, none the less it worked out for them I guess

If that was the case, then it implies that screwing over MPC animation studio by forcing them to re-animate the movie twice (thus pushing the studio into bankrupcy) was also intentional, and I don't think they're that pointlessly evil. It's more likely that incompetent executives went with a bizarre focus-grouped vision of protagonist, then realized that they screwed up majorly and did 180 at the last moment. It's by far not the first time that happens; just look at recent "Cats" movie to see that some higher-ups are genuinely that clueless when approaching their adaptation projects. Basically, it's Hanlon's razor in full swing.

SANIC · Feb 19, 2020

Pipistrele said:
If that was the case, then it implies that screwing over MPC animation studio by forcing them to re-animate the movie twice (thus pushing the studio into bankrupcy) was also intentional, and I don't think they're that pointlessly evil. It's more likely that incompetent executives went with a bizarre focus-grouped vision of protagonist, then realized that they screwed up majorly and did 180 at the last moment. It's by far not the first time that happens; just look at recent "Cats" movie to see that some higher-ups are genuinely that clueless when approaching their adaptation projects. Basically, it's Hanlon's razor in full swing.

that’s not the reason they went bankrupt

Pipistrele · Feb 19, 2020

SANIC said:
that’s not the reason they went bankrupt

Officially not, but knowing how those things go down in animation industry (and as best demonstrated in "Life After Pi" documentary), it's pretty much the most reasonable explanation, especially since same exact stuff happened many times before.

SANIC · Feb 19, 2020

Pipistrele said:
Officially not, but knowing how those things go down in animation industry (and as best demonstrated in "Life After Pi" documentary), it's pretty much the most reasonable explanation, especially since same exact stuff happened many times before.

It shut down because the work expectations on Vancouver locations were too drastic for the work to be sustainable for studio in general, not because of the sonic movie itself

Deleted User · Feb 19, 2020

Asia81 said:
same here in france
f**k off malik bentalha

Seriously, they did that here too ?
A few years ago, I was enjoying "Le monstre de Paris", then almost at half the movie, I discovered that Gad El Maleh ("El-Malette de pognon" the fiscal fugitive) was dubbing the mean role. His "cabotinage" completely took me off the movie.

I don't say that it wouldn't be fun (and provocative) to hear someone like Dieudonné voicing a character but sheesh, that's definitely a low move to catter audience in theater.

Asia81 · Feb 19, 2020

Torina said:
Seriously, they did that here too ?
A few years ago, I was enjoying "Le monstre de Paris", then almost at half the movie, I discovered that Gad El Maleh ("El-Malette de pognon" the fiscal fugitive) was dubbing the mean role. His "cabotinage" completely took me off the movie.

I don't say that it wouldn't be fun (and provocative) to hear someone like Dieudonné voicing a character but sheesh, that's definitely a low move to catter audience in theater.

yep, they took malik benthala for sonic

Ghassen-ga · Feb 19, 2020

Asia81 said:
same here in france
f**k off malik bentalha

Idk what you're on about , i thought his voice suited sonic

gamesquest1 · Feb 19, 2020

Pipistrele said:
If that was the case, then it implies that screwing over MPC animation studio by forcing them to re-animate the movie twice (thus pushing the studio into bankrupcy) was also intentional, and I don't think they're that pointlessly evil. It's more likely that incompetent executives went with a bizarre focus-grouped vision of protagonist, then realized that they screwed up majorly and did 180 at the last moment. It's by far not the first time that happens; just look at recent "Cats" movie to see that some higher-ups are genuinely that clueless when approaching their adaptation projects. Basically, it's Hanlon's razor in full swing.

well if I was more conspiratorially minded I could say maybe they had already been working on the final design and used "alpha" designs in the trailer to drum up some free press and always had intended to release in February with the proper design.......but nope I do agree there Is a lot of idiots working in positions of power in these big companies who offload important work such as character model design to their buddies who in turn do a terrible job but then the guys who have to do the grunt work bringing their crappy design to life get the blame for the horrible work they were told to do

but as for the company shutting down, it looks more to do with corporate greed than anything else, even if they would've nailed the design first time and done a fantastic job the corporate overlords would still be looking to "trim the fat" and chuck everyone else under the bus if they could find some third world country to offload their work too for a fraction of the cost to increase their own profits

Deleted User · Feb 19, 2020

I haven't seen the Pikachu movie, but I've seen Sonic's and I gotta say it was very, below average. Fine as a kids movie.

raxadian · Feb 19, 2020

Pipistrele said:
If that was the case, then it implies that screwing over MPC animation studio by forcing them to re-animate the movie twice (thus pushing the studio into bankrupcy) was also intentional, and I don't think they're that pointlessly evil.

The studio also animated Detective Pikachu that does look way better than Sonic 2019 did.

How they went from a Pikachu that's a tad fussy to an abomination that looks like a guy in a badly made Sonic costume is... strange.

Now, not getting them paid for doing the work twice? That's a jerkass move.

Silent_Gunner · Feb 19, 2020

Veho said:
Is that two successful video game movies in a row? Has the video game movie curse been broken?

guisadop · Feb 19, 2020

Nice, I'm really happy that it was successful
(not happy for the multimillion dollar corporation, but for all the employees and artists which probably worked hard to make this movie and then even corrected his appearance)

Patxinco · Feb 19, 2020

Just saying, the Spanish Latin dub used a youtuber, the Spain Spanish has Ángel de Gracia, and has a lot of background as a dubbing actor here.
On the other matter, ffs guys, it's a kids movie, what were you expecting? This is one of the best representations of a videogame in a movie we're gonna get, at last for a while.
For sure we got ups and downs, but being in the theather and hearing "that" name screamed at the end of the credits was totally priceless, and they deserved my money just for that.

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