Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Pitch Meeting
Warning: Spoilers ahead forSonic the Hedgehog 2.
Screen Rant's Pitch Meeting series is back with a takedown of Paramount's Sonic the Hedgehog 2. The Sega Games-adapting sequel has its sights on turning into a full-blown franchise, with news of a third film likely imminent after the gangbusters box office return of the film's first weekend in theaters. Beyond that, a Knuckles the Echnida spinoff is already in the works at Paramount+.
The Sonic sequel finds Ben Schwartz returning as the speedy blue hedgehog, who teams up with his video game sidekick, Tails (Colleen O'Shaughnessey), to once again stop Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey). Since the first film, Robotnik has been stranded on a mushroom planet when he's rescued by Knuckles (Idris Elba), who appears through a ring portal. Knuckles teams up with Robotnik, who promises to help him find the Master Emerald, which can destroy civilizations. Meanwhile, Sonic's human friends, Tom and Maddie (James Marsden and Tika Sumpter), are off at her sister's wedding in Hawaii in a generally overstuffed subplot.
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In the new installment of Pitch Meeting, host Ryan George has a blast dissecting the fresh-off-the-presses film. The main takeaway from this hypothetical meeting at Paramount is that Sonic 2 opens a lot more questions than it has any interest in answering. The full video can be seen below:
The video takes plenty of jabs, mostly at the film's unnecessary plot developments. One such scene is when Sonic is forced to compete in a dance-off against a bar of surly Siberians for possession of an important map, despite being able to move fast enough to make time stand still and just take it. Another baffling development reveals
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