Well, it's March, the 3rd month of the year.
Which means it's time for Dave-El's Weekend Movie Post to write about the 3rd Sonic the Hedgehog movie.
As per the norm for these movies, there's a lot of fast paced action and stuff blows up real good and we mostly have a fun time with all that.
Except...
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 takes a dark turn.
People... die!
Off the coast of Japan, we begin with a prison and inside the prison is a suspended animation tube and inside the tube is... Sonic?!
No, kind of like Sonic but darker, more sinister in appearance.
This is Shadow.
And after 50 years, he wakes up.
And Shadow is super pissed off!
Back in their happy idyllic life with Tom and Maddie in Green Hills, Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles are recruited by G.U.N. to go to Tokyo to stop Shadow.
That goes very badly and the trio find themselves outmatched by this dark version of Sonic.
Sonic is forced to seek out the assistance of Dr. Ivo Robotnik.
And odd partnership that works... until it doesn't.
The person behind Shadow's awakening and escape is none other than Ivo's dear old pop-pop, Dr. Gerald Robotnik.
Ivo joins his grandfather on his quest to conquer the Earth.
But the elder Robotnik and Shadow are not on a mission of conquest. Their mission is revenge fueled by the death of Maria, Gerard's granddaughter and Shadow's best friend.
The flashback to Shadow and Maria's friendship is sweet and heartbreakingly sad and....
Damn it! This is a movie about hedgehogs with super speed! Stop making me feel things!!!
I am NOT crying! You're crying! Just shut up!
...
...
I need a moment.
...
Where was I? Oh yeah...
Dr. Gerald Robotnik and Shadow's mission of vengeance is not to conquer the world but to DESTROY the world!
Wait! Do what to the what now?
There are some objections to that plan from our heroes Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles but also from Dr. Ivo Robotnik.
Look, Ivo knows from mad scientist crazy fuckery and he's having a blast hangin' with grand dad but...
Destroy the world?
But that's where Ivo keeps his stuff.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is a lot. It moves at a breakneck speed and throws a lot at you.
Including death.
Maria was sweet and kind and deserved a better fate than to be fridged to provide motivation for Shadow and the elder Robotnik.
For Shadow, Maria is John Wick's dog.
Speaking of John Wick...
Keanu Reeves brings all sorts of dark brooding somber intensity as the voice of Shadow. What if John Wick was a super powered hedgehog?
Jim Carrey gets to gnaw on all sorts of scenery as Ivo Robotnik and his own grandfather Gerard. It's a lot but Sonic the Hedgehog 3 would be so much less without the chaotic energy Carrey brings.
Jim Carrey returned for Sonic the Hedgehog 3 because "I bought a lot of stuff I need to pay for". Well, if he's doing it for a paycheck, at least he seems to be having fun doing it.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 does what it sets out to do, to be a fun high powered blast of action adventure which gets elevated a bit by the performances of Reeves and Carrey.
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