Their arrival coincides with fellow alien Tails (Colleen O’Shaughnessey), who took notice of Sonic’s electromagnetic pulse from the first movie, and has been using his self-made gadgets to watch and admire him from across the universe. When Tom and his wife Maddie (Tika Sumpter) leave town to attend a wedding, Sonic is left to his own devices - so of course the bad guys show up to test his mettle. Robotnik offers to help him acquire it, and the two villains make their way back to Earth, where Sonic is attempting to act as a solo superhero, against the warnings of his human buddy Tom (James Marsden). Eventually, one of his nonsensical inventions issues a distress beacon, answered by Knuckles (Idris Elba), a bright red echidna and proud warrior in search of the Master Emerald. Sonic 2 opens with an inspired blast of Carrey silliness, as Robotnik contends with being exiled on a mushroom planet back in the first Sonic movie. Carrey’s greatest-hits approach to Robotnik only feels freeing by comparison, because the character is a flesh-and-blood lunatic inhabited by a masterful physical comedian, rather than a cute-but-weightless CG creation. Robotnik isn’t as fiendishly amped-up as Carrey’s Riddler in 1995’s Batman Forever, or as elastic as his astonishing antics as beleaguered lawyer Fletcher in 1997’s Liar Liar. Robotnik, also known as the Eggman, isn’t a pantheon-level Carrey creation (or re-creation, given that he, like Sonic and his alien pals, are drawn from the video game series). Robotnik’s concern about dying a derivative death makes sense - Carrey’s scenes are the only moments where the Sonic movies start to feel like they might formulate a distinctive comic voice.Įven he’s operating with a borrowed voice, though. This sequel is technically more fun and more engaging than its predecessor - while placing its strongest emphasis on the more part.
Either way, the frantic shameless grabbing at cultural knicknacks defines the experience of watching Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Maybe some of this is supposed to be homage, like the way Sonic (voiced by Ben Schwartz) calls the movie Snow Dogs “the woooooorst” in the frequently GIF’d sing-song cadence of Schwartz’s Parks and Recreation character, Jean-Ralphio Sanderson. In addition to this lampshaded Raiders of the Lost Ark knockoff, the movie steals ideas, moments, and occasionally direct lines of dialogue from The Incredibles, The Avengers, Talladega Nights, and Rush Hour, among others.
If that’s truly Robotnik’s chief concern, Sonic 2 is rife with peril. “I don’t want to die like this!” he cries out. The traps include a gigantic boulder, which rumbles and rolls behind Robotnik as he zips through a stone hallway. Robotnik (the little blue alien’s maniacal-genius nemesis, played with relish by Jim Carrey), is running through a gauntlet of ancient booby traps protecting the movie’s big glowing McGuffin, the Master Emerald. At one point in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Dr.
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