First Sonic 2 film trailer improves on Sonic 1’s weird debut

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  He's back to... run fast and say silly things. But that's not so bad.

It's hard to believe two years have passed since the outcry over Sonic the Hedgehog's live-action film debut led producers to rethink their toothy, tiny-faced, pointy-nosed version of Sonic.

The resulting CGI redo pushed the film's release date to Valentine's Day 2020—and for Ars, the film gets the dubious honor of being the final film we were able to screen in a theater for the rest of 2020. But it wasn't the worst film for that, as it included enough humor, charm, and salvaged CGI to squeak into that year's best-of list.

But there was certainly room for improvement—which is why I'm already optimistic about how the sequel is shaping up, as evidenced by Sonic 2's Thursday night world-premiere trailer.

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