Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Needs To Cut The Pointless Human Subplots
Warning! SPOILERS for Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 rightly focuses on the spiky blue hero, but the film is hampered by needless human drama, something Sonic the Hedgehog 3 must avoid. The sequel's main storyline follows the super-powered Sonic the Hedgehog as he tries to find the legendary Master Emerald, a source of immense power, before Dr. Robotnik can get hold of it. It also features the much-anticipated debuts of Tails and Knuckles, Sonic's best friends from the video game series. Less expected from Sonic 2 was the wedding subplot, which for the most part features exclusively human characters.
The wedding focuses on Rachel, Tom Wachowski's sister-in-law, and Randall, a newly introduced character for the sequel. Rachel's supporting role in Sonic the Hedgehog was to constantly encourage Maddie — Tom's wife — to leave him. Her disapproval of Tom continues in Sonic 2 as she warns him not to ruin the wedding. Inevitably, after 15 minutes of non-Sonic related banter, Tom ruins the Hawaiian beach wedding by using a ring portal to teleport Sonic and Tails away from a Siberian mountain, where they were being chased by Jim Carey's Robotnik and Idris Elba's Knuckles, causing an avalanche to obliterate the ceremony. Randall and his guests then reveal themselves to be undercover agents for the Guardian Units of Nations (G.U.N.), a military group from the video games, and that his relationship with Rachel was a sham so that he could get close to Sonic.
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The biggest issue with Sonic 2's wedding is that audiences had no reason to care about it. Rachel is a largely one-dimensional character, whose main personality trait is her aggressive dislike for Tom. Whilst
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