00:00This was a boring adaptation of Sonic Adventure 2 that had most of its creativity being in what it doesn't keep around.
00:07Where we see Shadow bullying innocents and Eggman working for Gerald just for novelty value, which mostly goes like you'd expect anyway.
00:17And while it's great that people don't mistake Sonic for Shadow, the story still lets Gun want to capture Sonic and his friends the minute they meet Shadow.
00:26So most of it still has the same thing I always hated about the original.
00:31In most of the story, nothing happened. It had so much boring stuff it was hard to stick to reviewing.
00:40While the major differences in the plot served to get rid of the plot holes of the original game, it amounted to nothing because the story's forced anyways.
00:49Tom only got hurt bad enough for Sonic to go super and fly to space because the story forced him to disguise himself as Walters a second time when he didn't need to because Rockwell wasn't looking at him as she walked away and was quite a distance from him and had no reason to turn back to him.
01:07The bad guys only got both keys to the cannon to go to space because Sonic somehow didn't think to get rid of his own key by throwing it in a river and Rockwell didn't swallow the key.
01:19There's so many reasons this whole plot never should have happened.
01:23I thought by Gerald still being alive, they were doing it to fix the plot hole where the Ark was still apocalyptic, even though Gerald had been arrested and it took a while to go crazy.
01:34Instead, Gerald's able to do the plot because Gun somehow trusted him to build a superweapon for them in exchange for his freedom.
01:42Surely they would have noticed he was in a permanent bad mood after losing Maria.
01:47And he was in prison for 50 years for a lab accident.
01:52So why don't they trust him after a soldier of theirs killed Maria for no reason in blatant insubordination because his leader told him not to?
02:04They tried to steal Shadow out of paranoia of him in the first place.
02:09How would they start trusting him unquestionably afterwards?
02:12This is nonsensical bullshit, so it would be embarrassing if the idea that Gun would trust Gerald after Maria was used anywhere else.
02:20I'm not complaining that the plot wasn't exactly like the game.
02:24There was no chance of the story matching up to the original without the same characters, dialogue, music, and camera work.
02:32And of course, being in a live-action medium.
02:35And it'd be boring to watch the characters go through the same level designs for just as long as in the game.
02:41Where there would be the same few things happening repeatedly.
02:45So it needed major differences to have a point to it.
02:49And of course, it is good to remove the blatant padding of Knuckles looking for the Master Emerald.
02:54And of Amy whining that she's being left behind all the time and being made the butt of a joke.
03:00But one of those differences only resulted in a cringy dance sequence with Gerald Robotnik and Eggman acting completely out of character and being happier than he deserves with Gerald just because he's family.
03:13But he's a monster who spent the whole story before that disparaging family.
03:18And the other difference gave us Boom Shadow, but with a backstory.
03:24And one that's even angstier, but still too derivative.
03:28IDW Shadow is an even better comparison.
03:30He's a jerk.
03:31He's hot-headed.
03:32He's stupid.
03:34He's only working in a team because everyone else treats him like a monster.
03:40Knuckles was Boom Knuckles.
03:41And Sonic was an annoyingly selfish loser.
03:44Everything good this story has is minor.
03:49Maria's great, but one measly flashback has nothing to do with the plot progression, so it's not a big deal.
03:56It doesn't magically make the story good.
03:59I don't understand why it's got nothing but relentlessly positive reviews that don't seem fake the whole time.
04:06Just because they changed Sonic's design from what it could have been the first film doesn't mean that it's a good movie.
04:13How are people not annoyed by how awful the main characters are they claim to care about and how slow the pacing is?
04:21It's only a good-looking story, as they have to assume its entire appeal is based on just watching it.
04:29Even then, most of the film wasn't action scenes.
04:33And Shadow only did one new thing against Sonic.
04:36It was mostly just them chasing each other.
04:39And Shadow never got any hits from Sonic until their final fight.
04:45Another thing new is the Emeralds get replaced with a whopping two keys that do nothing new.
04:51And of course, don't look as good as Chaos Emeralds.
04:54I thought there'd be enough keys to get the heroes to see the most iconic set pieces from the game.
04:59Which could have been just seconds.
05:02But it's only one boring base.
05:05You'd think the Emeralds being all together in one hidden gem would mean they wouldn't need to track down a MacGuffin.
05:11Which could have been instantly tracked down because Sonic's fast.
05:15Stealing SC2's plot was lazy.
05:17And it also takes no effort to cut out stuff from the plot or forget to put it there.
05:22One MacGuffin aside, the fact is that all the story was about was that Sonic encounters Shadow a bunch and Eggman hangs out with Gerald.
05:32Then Gerald tries a space apocalypse.
05:34Where it's not even like the Ark is trying to crash into the planet this time.
05:38It's somehow just the canon.
05:41Fearbone's plots work when the dialogue is just that interesting that it's okay that it's the only thing you're supposed to care about.
05:48The fight between Gerald and Eggman was lame when this was the point where he should have been completely serious the second he tried to destroy the world.
05:57So nobody who really gets the appeal of Gerald or Sonic should have praised it when Sonic's supposed to be cool.
06:05The characterization in this is bare bones and usually unlikable.
06:09Even Tails didn't impress me aside from his competent moments.
06:13I usually spend most of the time I experience the dialogue and patience for it to end.
06:18The directors of this movie said in an interview that their way of writing the adaptation was if they didn't remember it, it wasn't important anyways.
06:28So Maria having a disease that actually justifies her being with Shadow?
06:34Not important.
06:36Maria having last words that could inspire Shadow to be on the right path?
06:40Not important.
06:42Amy and Rouge?
06:44Not important.
06:45They cared so little, they didn't bother to look at the two's plot up first.
06:53At least I won't have to ask why Rouge doesn't take any emeralds out of the Eclipse Cannon and go while Shadow's busy with Sonic.
07:00If it gets rid of the second biggest plot hole in the story, it's a good change.
07:04The good thing about Rouge was that she teased Eggman, but Sonic did that too, so what's the point?
07:13I can't like any voice of hers besides the original because I grew up with SA2, so I want to appreciate her anyways.
07:20At least I'll admit it, I guess I don't care about Rouge.
07:23I just like her in SA2 and I like the stuff she does as a hero.
07:26I like her abilities, but it's not like the end of the world if I don't see her in a story.
07:33It still bothers me when she's portrayed wrong, though.
07:36The fact is, the biggest problems with the story are that the characterization and pacing and dialogue aren't good.
07:43The pacing especially, so I was just bored nearly the whole time.
07:48There was originality there, but it wasn't impressive enough.
07:50And I know that I experienced just the book.
07:54Of course, the book's going to be boring.
07:56But the book's mostly the same story as in the film.
08:00So it's just showing you what the story's actually like when it doesn't have those visual elements to distract you.
08:07There was originality there, but it wasn't impressive enough.
08:10I'm not going to like a story just because Shadow's in it.
08:13Because Shadow's not in it.
08:16Shadow wouldn't rant at Sonic about how he lost Maria and how he feels about it.
08:21He was subtle.
08:23And the story isn't subtle.
08:25It repeatedly hammers you over the head with his backstory and reminds me of Exposition constantly.
08:31As if it thinks we're too stupid to remember it or won't care about it if we aren't told it over and over.
08:36The game handled it best because the only times you were told about his backstory were the most emotionally impactful ways they could possibly do it.
08:46The more you keep explaining the same things, the less emotional punch they pack.
08:50It doesn't matter who is wrong and who is right.
08:54So I'm not forced to comprehend that.
08:55I'll see you over the next couple moments in the film.
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08:59The series.
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