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LET ME TELL YOU A THING ABOUT THE 2019 SONIC MOVIE

For starters, SEGA knows Sonic is on thin ice.  His footing is shaky at best, though hope has been restored by Mania, Mania Adventures, and the recent hype for the racing game.  The company knows that they’ve gotta NAIL these next few releases if they want a shot at restoring some of Sonic’s old glory.

NOW.

I don’t know if you know this, but Sonic’s original creator (Naoto Ohshima), level  designer (Hirokazu Yasuhara), and lead programmer (Yuji Naka) have not been involved in the series for many, many years.  In fact, Ohshima has refused most interviews regarding the series, and has been working on other projects.  Looking at Sonic’s history and the timeline of when the original Sonic Team disbanded, it’s not hard to guess that Ohshima and Naka have not exactly… let’s say, been all too thrilled with where Sonic has gone in recent years.

(And before anyone counters with that interview Ohshima did where he said Sonic has “grown up” and “doesn’t need his power anymore”… I implore you to rewatch that interview and think about Japanese standards of politeness.  “Doublespeak” is common in that culture, where things are worded veeeeeery carefully so that they could be taken very positively but betray one’s true thoughts.  Ohshima saying that Sonic is who he is today because of all the people who’ve been on the project, stating that Sonic doesn’t need him around anymore… it’s like Ohshima is saying, “I didn’t have anything to do with what happened to Sonic.  It’s not my fault.”)

But Ohshima not only did a new EXTENSIVE interview about Sonic this year, 2018… he also went out of his way to draw promotional art for Sonic Mania upon his release.  The man must be THRILLED to see the games returning to what originally made them so great.

What’s this got to do with the movie?  Well, let’s just hop on over to the movie’s IMDB page, and…

Oh!  Oh my!

There are three names on that list that look startlingly familiar!

The O.G. team is back.  And they’re helping to write for the movie.

Not to mention, I’m sorry – Jim Carrey?  Ben Schwartz?!  James Marsden?!  Tika Sumpter?!  These are all incredibly successful actors!  They don’t need to sign on to B-list films – they clearly see something in this film.

To top it all off, what little we DO know about the plot is REMARKABLY similar to the opening setting for Sonic Adventure 2.  I doubt it will be a straight adaptation, but I recall reading somewhere (I can’t remember where, and I can’t seem to find it again) that either the director or the head scriptwriter was replaying the Adventure games throughout the script’s writing.

This movie is going to be good.

And if I’m wrong, it’s at least going to be devilishly fun.