Trying my best to be spoiler free-- my honest first reaction.
Think the best way to watch the sonic movies is to remember they're basically AUs. I think there's enough effort and affection to constitute that for me and I really do feel like they're enjoying these movies and the characters, I do. The energy is there and I really love the way they handled shadow, especially with Maria, even if we didn't get the true ending we wanted.
It felt very appropriate given how the movies are world building and I really love that Shadow feels so lost and unsure where to vent his frustrations. He feels like hes angry and just wants someone to tell him what to do, so he trusts the only person he can.
Really looking forward to more and a great way to end year of Shadow 🦔 ⚡⚡⚡
That said, since movie 1, I've always felt that the best parts are any time Jim Carrey was not on screen and this will be my hottest take on this account Ig.
Like I think id feel different if there was just *less* of him or the scenes were shorter (in all the movies) or for this one, at least if Robotnik was slightly less Jim Carrey for a breather. Pace is just cut off to make us give him our full attention, often in service of nothing lol. I think they needed to be cut down. Like anything I felt gets cut off because we need to have Jim Carrey be Jim Carrey for 5 minutes.
For just a moment he has something other than shitpost energy (don't get me wrong, I love a good shitpost, but he's just always the same), like when that little moment happened with his grandfather, like what he says to eggman. That was wild. That was cool.
They're never eggman, just Jim Carrey doing...Jim Carrey lol. Which I'm pretty sure was part of the direction, just letting him be weird. Maybe to find their AU eggman?
It's just like how Will Ferrell has his "Will Ferrell, grown man acting like child" joke in 90% of his movies, it just gets old fast. It just felt like watching the mask half the time, I guess?
the way he goes from you need to get good sleep tonight kind of Dom and rough growly firm kind of Dom , it just depends on what the literal moment calls for.
mental illness is so funny bc my life is literally falling apart and ive been crying on and off for two hours but my boss messages me “How are you doing today?” And I answer “Great :)”
And she says “Here is a list of things for you to do!”
And I say “I’ll get right on that!”
I will not get right on that. I am crying. I will probably get fired.
