 Today, I'm going to do something completely original. Yeah, I'm talking about the Sonic the Hedgehog trailer. Before I do that, why don't you enter our Nintendo Switch Super Smash Bros. Ultimate giveaway through the green dot i-link down in the description. It's absolutely free to enter. It is that collector's edition that came out in November of 2018. And hey, why don't you drop a like on this video as well and see if we can get it to 150 likes. Now look, everyone and their mother is talking about that Sonic the Hedgehog trailer today. It has been anticipated in one form or another both to see how bad the trailer was going to be or to see if it's not as bad as people felt it was going to be. Now the trailer was shown behind closed doors about a month ago and even the reaction then seemed pretty mixed. It was basically Sonic looks bad, Jim Carrey as Robotnik looks good. And that still seems to be the general consensus coming out now that the trailer is public. Everyone thinks that Sonic looks bad, but you know, Jim Carrey looks good. Or at least Jim Carrey in the trailer comes off as classic 90s Jim Carrey, which we haven't actually seen in a while. So it's nice to have 90s Jim Carrey come back in a character that seems to be well written for his persona. Now, the big thing is, is the opinions on this trailer are pretty split. You have those people that obviously hate it, they get ruined their childhood, people like Spawnwave and Bob Wolfe have both chimed up to be like, hey look, it's terrible, it's ruining my childhood, this is not what they should have done. Sonic's not realistic enough, so they should have been cartoon, it just looks all silly and dumb and the story's bad and blah blah blah blah. Then you have others out there like Dreamcast Guy or Arlo even who are kind of like, hey look, I think they know exactly what they're doing and it's brilliant and it's going to be awesome. So here's my take. I actually like the trailer and I kind of side with the latter half of what I brought up in Dreamcast Guy and Arlo. I think they know exactly what they are doing. I think they know that this is a meme-tastic video. They are playing into the memes. You have got to go fast in there, which is already a meme, so they have that in there. They have, you know, take us to the Genesis, you know, in there as a saying to kind of call back to the Sega Genesis, master system for some other people and they're just kind of playing into the cringe. They are trying to make Sonic extremely cringe worthy. I mean at one point, you know, he looks at his wrist where he doesn't have a watch and says he took nine million steps and this is in the middle of Jim Carrey's Dr. Robotnik shooting a bunch of missiles at him and them coming to a standstill, which some people felt confused by, but this also infers that how Sonic's speed works isn't necessarily just his legs. Maybe his speed kind of works like the Flash because we've seen in the Flash TV show and in the comics his ability to kind of stand there and move so fast that to him he feels like he's standing still, but to everyone out there it looks like he's not even there and that time kind of stands still and they can go around and destroy all the missiles and all that jazz. That at least seems to be what they're inferring how his speed works. It's not necessarily just when he runs. He can just call upon his speed whenever he needs it. It's a very interesting trailer to me in some cases because I don't actually mind the story. The story feels very unique and that's the way I always felt video game films need to approach video game adaptions is don't try to tell a story that's already been told in video game form. Give us something unique and the way that this story seems to be working out is that Sonic the Hedgehog is some interdimensional alien being. They don't really explain it too much in this initial trailer. Maybe we'll find out more in future trailers otherwise we could wait to watch the movie I believe it comes out in November. But basically Sonic's not from this planet but he's here on earth to save it. At least Sonic says that at some point in the trailer I'm here to save the earth. I will save the earth from what I don't know because Dr. Robotnik is not actually the initial bad guy that Sonic was here for. Dr. Robotnik is actually called on by the US government or I'm really shouldn't say maybe it's the UN. Some government agency anyways hires Dr. Robotnik to try to stop Sonic and the reason they want to stop him is because his speed creates a lot of electricity and that electrical pulse that happens when he hits his max speed is knocking out power in huge chunks of the United States and because of that they want to put a stop to it before he knocks out the entire world's power grid which is understandable obviously there's something going on they don't understand the government generally wants to bottle that up and figure it out and so they hire Dr. Robotnik who obviously is a doctor of robotics basically to try to capture and figure out all this stuff and over the course of the movie obviously goes from trying to capture and blah blah blah to try to kill Sonic and then there's an end scene towards the end where he finally starts to look like Dr. Eggman which again you know Dr. Robotnik and Dr. Eggman they basically they're the same character so you can definitely see that he basically gets more and more I don't know if I don't know we're crazies right but gets more and more like the character that we all know and love from the Sonic series by the end of the movie and maybe that is going to be a setup for a second movie or what have you or a final showdown but yeah Sonic himself obviously the animation I the animations I think are okay obviously the look of Sonic's going to be a love or hate I actually kind of like it in a strange way because in telling a unique story and having a very unique Dr. Robotnik in Jim Carrey by the way it looks as silly and acts as silly as you would think and as high as I mean this is Jim Carrey you know basically performing at his best and I love it they tailored this role specifically for Jim Carrey but I honestly don't mind the way that Sonic looks or how he runs or anything else that people I've been taking issues I realize his face looks funny at times the animations are good at times like bad at times honestly I think this entire movie is built for memes I think they are buying into internet culture with this video they knew that no matter what they did a son of the hedgehog movie probably would not be well received so instead of trying to make this super high production you know hundreds of millions of dollars sunk into trying to make this bioptic epic like a game of thrones or you know just some sort of massive scale movie you know they decided hey look we're not going to go that detective Pikachu route that's very hard for us to pull off with a character that has already had its ups and downs as a franchise we're just going to bind to the fact that everyone likes to meme Sonic and we're going to lean into those memes hardcore and I honestly think this is one of those movies that is going to become one of those cult classics I think it's actually going to perform well at the box office be very low reviewed on rotten tomato be very low reviewed basically everywhere but there's going to be this big um collection you know maybe millions of people who actually love how cringy this movie is if you love cringe this is going to be like the perfect video game movie for you if you're like a sonic fan and you love the sonic memes and the sonic cringe and they gotta go fast like the hot the the chili dogs I'm sure there'll be a joke about chili dogs in there at some point like there's going to be a lot of cringe in here along with some nice humor from Jim Carrey and I think it's going to be a nice melding of the movie owning what it is it knows that it's a bad movie I think that's the the thing here a bad movie that knows it's a bad movie are generally the best bad movies that's that's the way I view it and that's kind of why I like this in fact I don't even know that it's going to be a bad movie for me but I I think in general it's going to be a bad movie that knows it's a bad movie owns it's a bad movie and has a lot of fun with the fact it's a bad movie and ultimately in the end sonic the hedgehog in the movie is going to just end up being a lot of fun and that to me is what makes a bad movie enjoyable and makes it have a cult following it makes people meet like me love it is it knows it's bad and it owns that it's bad and has fun that it's bad it makes fun of itself and creates memes out of itself and I think that is brilliant and I think that is a good a good choice for this particular type of movie I don't think this would work as well with a mario movie you know obviously some people talk about the memes that maybe came out of the original mario brothers movie and I actually like that mario brothers movie but uh that movie tried to take itself seriously and uh that was maybe its downfall is that it didn't own how silly the entire idea is this movie seems to be owning its silliness owning the fact that this sonic doesn't look like any sonic we've ever seen before heck the rings instead of them being like these things you collect that like let's them take more damage it may now are like teleportations like the gold rings let you teleport all over the world all over the universe that's how we got to earth crazy stuff going on here lots of crazy interesting unique ideas and that's why I like it um you're you know feel free to disagree you can obviously head down to the comment section and and and you know clack away and let me know how terrible this is and I'm not going to blame you for thinking that this trailer is an abomination and has ruined your childhood I can't blame you for feeling the way that spawn wave and wolf den and many others you know many millions of others probably out there feel but I'm kind of on that other side of the coin where I think it's kind of clever I think it's kind of unique because we don't get a lot of movies that own their cringe as much as this one seems to be owning it and I honestly think I'm going to end up really enjoying this movie is am I going to end up thinking it's a better movie than detective Pikachu probably not overall because I think detective Pikachu is just more cleverly written and while it breaks away from the source material of detective Pikachu it still stays fairly true to that source material in some ways if you know anything about the story of detective Pikachu at 3ds it's not the same story they're telling in the movie but there are some similarities and how the world is built and all that stuff and Ryan Reynolds I think obviously brings a little clout to it just like Jim Carrey does to this film and I think detective Pikachu is a more serious take with comedy mixed in that is going to end up coming together much better than this does if it tried to do a similar style so this movie says screw it we're not going to try to be detective Pikachu and be super serious we're going to be silly we're going to be zany we're going to be memetastic we're going to have crazy battle sequences that make absolutely no sense and we're going to own it and we're going to have a lot of corny cheesy lines that people are going to be meaning forever that they're going to want sonic to be gift to hell or gift to hell it's going to be crazy it's going to be fun and I think it's going to be a wild ride and I think this is exactly what this sonic movie should be and it is what they are trying to make it be I am very thankful they didn't try to make a serious sonic movie because honestly how many attempts at serious video game adaptations do we need to see fail especially when it comes to bringing it to the real world before we realize that maybe that's not a very good direction for those kind of movies obviously we know detective Pikachu might be trying to buck the trend but you know what we still don't know detective Pikachu actually delivers having some good looking trailers is not the same as the movie delivers so we'll have to wait and see if that movie delivers as well but for right now the detective Pikachu is probably a better movie but I think that this sonic the hedgehog movie is its own type of unique comedic movie it's definitely a comedy and I'm loving it man like give me more I already want another trailer like just keep dropping the trailers I'm going to go to this movie probably two or three times because it just I was laughing throughout the entire trailer and not just like laughing at how dumb it looks sometimes just laughing in general and oh my god this movie knows what it is it's a bad movie that knows it's bad and this is awesome and I love it so you guys don't know what you think about this down in the comments below I am Nathan and Robert Jansson it's gonna be sure to enter that giveaway I mentioned earlier if you're curious what that is look at the gleam that I only down in the description subscribe for more content because hey we make lots of videos every single day and I will catch each and every single one of you in the next video and my last message I know it failed last time but um hey Milwaukee Bucks can you please win a 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