Sonic The Hedgehog: The Movie

Merge please.

 

Won't merging into a topic nearly two years old technically be necroposting?

Anyway, status-wise I see Sarah as more of a princess than Elise (whose father is a duke). But anyway back when the internet was still new, the Sonic OVA and SatAM petitions were all the rage. Nowadays, not so much. I did enjoy it form when I watch the whole thing for the first time on Japanese VHS.

 

Japan, never change. >_>

 

I enjoy it, aside from the voice acting. Sonic makes me the angriest.

 

I like Tails' voice acting. I do wish they would make more movies like this one. All the sexual jokes and stuff make it kinda funny. The animation is great too, although Sonic's quills look too short, even for classic Sonic.

It kinda reminds me of Sonic CD's opening movie.

Yes, yes I do.

 

So there's finally another comparison besides The Terminator?

Good to know.

 

It was made by the same people.

 

I actually liked the voice acting for all the characters. >_> Tails was easily the worst, but I got used to him after a while. I always thought the voice actor choice for Knuckles was pretty interesting because all of the later voice actors he had gave him such a deep voice where as his voice was pretty high pitched in the film. Then again, nearly everyone's voice in this film was pretty high pitched. <_<

 

People complain about the voice acting in Retro? I thought the general opinion was OVA Sonic > SatAM Sonic in that respect :P

 

Hopefully I wasn't the only person who loved the music for thiw movie. Some of that stuff was really good.

 

As a kid I had the VHS and I would literally watch it every day, if you were to give me a copy of it now I'd be able to recite every line.

 

Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie is probably the coolest game-to-film adaptation ever made, even if it is just a two-part anime that never got finished.

Tis a shame too. I would've watched this show daily if I'd had the chance to. I'm sure the reason it stagnated was because Sonic isn't and has never been all too popular in Japan, which is sad because it has potential. The trio and Robotnik all acted as I always expected them to (with great voices too, back off haters), and it also introduced awesome characters that didn't invade the focus on the main four in the cast while also managing to be entertaining on their own. If only the film would've acknowledged Chaos Emeralds and referenced such objects as rings, this would've been the perfect expansion on the classic series.

 

I love the movie. There's only two things I dislike: Knuckles having weird flying powers and it being so short. All the other animated adaptations pale in comparision. To me it was the greatest. There was always some funny detail happening at all times, even while exposition was taking place (Eggman explaining his plans to the heroes and some random smaller robot copying his pose, the owl mistaking a blue flower for Sonic). It never had a dull moment.

 

The OVA's probably my favourite bit of Sonic outside of the earlier games, and it's the only thing that I'm happy hearing all the characters' voices in. No, seriously.

 

I love how Knuckles shoes are colored wrong.

Also, I would kill to listen to the full version of "Look-a-like". Too bad no soundtrack was ever released. I wish I could at least put my hands on the master tracks, in order to have the original mix in high quality. Impossible dream, I know.

 

Really? I've heard this several times but can't find proof anywhere. In fact, when I look at the credits for the OVA and CD this is what I get;

Sonic OVA
Animation Production
-Studio Pierrot Co., ltd.

Sonic CD
Produced by
-Toei Animation Co., ltd

Yet so many people say they were made by the same people.

EDIT (To stay better on topic): I really enjoyed this film. If the style of animation was brought back and tweaked to todays animation standards for use in a new Sonic movie I'd be very pleased. The only things that I think aren't so great about the ova is the voice acting, and story. Neither of those things were awful (excluding Tails' voice) but the voice acting is far from perfect and the story is forgettable. However, the music is spot on. In the end it was pretty good.

 

I've been known to break into Knuckles's "the very backbone of our Planet Freedom will be shattered" monologue over the headset at work. I love the movie. It was this mysterious cartoon I knew nothing about when I saw the previews on Sonic Jam way back when, and I was overjoyed when I finally got the VHS, which is somewhere in my old room at my parents' house. I've got the DVD in my car somewhere, but it's the 'bootleg' with the Mega Collection cover art and the terrible, terrible English subtitles.

Watch out Nucklus or you'll get the fag end.

 

Oh no, you too?

Sonic fights off the Machine King's Hypuro Metal Sonic with his best friends Dilus and NUCKURUS (since for some reason it was always capitalized). But first Sonic must go through the Machine King's Eden and fight Mecha Machine King in the Dark Land.

..what the heck was up with that bootleg, man.