First Sonic 2 film trailer improves on Sonic 1’s weird debut

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  He's back to... run fast and say silly things. But that's not so bad.

It's hard to believe two years have passed since the outcry over Sonic the Hedgehog's live-action film debut led producers to rethink their toothy, tiny-faced, pointy-nosed version of Sonic.

The resulting CGI redo pushed the film's release date to Valentine's Day 2020-and for Ars, the film gets the dubious honor of being the final film we were able to screen in a theater for the rest of 2020. But it wasn't the worst film for that, as it included enough humor, charm, and salvaged CGI to squeak into that year's best-of list.

But there was certainly room for improvement-which is why I'm already optimistic about how the sequel is shaping up, as evidenced by Sonic 2's Thursday night world-premiere trailer.

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