Sonic 3 Movie Review!

Sonic fans, we won. I'm telling you right now, we won so hard because I was not expecting this movie to go that hard. Hard. Stop. And yeah, Keanu Reeves' Shadow is a menace. Because Sonic 3 really had it all. You would think Zack Snyder was the blueprint. The amount of anime and superhero movie references in this movie was just out of control. Either way, me and you, we gotta talk about it. And don't worry, I'm not gonna be talking any spoilers, because there are some really big ones in this movie. Especially in that third act and that mid and post credits scene, oh my god, my theater was losing their shit. But let me start off by saying this. If you aren't a fan of the first two Sonic movies, you're just not gonna like this movie. It's not for you. But if you grew up playing the Sonic games and loving those first two movies, I'm telling you right now, this is a wet dream for you. Okay, pause. Because let's be honest, this is a film targeted towards children. But for a film targeted towards children, I found it kind of profound. There's a line of dialogue in this movie that says, their light still shines even when a star is gone. And not once in my life did I think we would get a line of dialogue that profound and poignant in a Sonic movie. But we got it. And yeah, the dialogue is corny and cheesy and the jokes are just ugh. This movie can look really ugly at times with its green screen. But outside of that, I just felt like a kid again watching this movie and it brought me some joy. Jim Carrey, I mean, bless, he should have got an Oscar for playing the Grinch. And here he's pulling double duty playing Robotnik and Gerald Robotnik. And he's just having so much fun. He's a habitual bag acquirer. But I was really impressed with the action sequences in this movie. I was not bullshitting. There's anime references galore. You got the Akira slide. There's some Dragon Ball Z style fighting. And then a whole lot of comic book movie references. You got like the thematics of the Tobey Spider-Man movies with a lot of Zack Snyder's Man of Steel and BVS. There's even a Martha moment in this movie. Complimentary, of course. I love this entire cast and the human characters actually have some decent plot and it's not like a side plot like the last movie. I love all of the voice actors and Ben Schwartz as Sonic in this movie actually takes himself serious. There's genuinely some pretty good heartfelt moments, especially with Keanu Reeves as Shadow. Again, just aura personified. And at the end of the day, is this just childish schlop? Yes. But guess what? I'm a grown man eating up that schlop. And I just know my nephew's going to love this movie. Sonic, gotta go fast. I ended up giving Sonic 3 three and a half out of five stars on Letterboxd. By the way, follow me there for more in-depth reviews. But I'm curious to hear your thoughts. Have you checked out Sonic 3? Are you going to check out Sonic 3? And if you've already seen it, drop a comment down below and let me know your thoughts. And as always, like and follow if I'm old.