Ask, and you shall receive.
Or, you’ll at least ensure that Paramount’s production team spends an incredible amount of time redesigning a fast, blue hedgehog to keep everybody happy.
Either way.
Earlier this year, the trailer for the live action Sonic the Hedgehog movie was released.
It was a trailer full of fast animals, stupid humans, and saving the world – and although all of those things are inherently good, the trailer was not well received.
Partly because many people are not massive fans of seeing their childhood cartoon heroes reimagined for a new, younger audience.
But mainly because Sonic, the beloved Hedgehog, looked like this.
Yeah. You get it.
The backlash, however, was seemingly so severe that Paramount decided to go ahead and redesign the entire movie just to keep people happy.
And in fairness to them, they appear to have nailed it.
The new trailer, as below, depicts a softer Sonic, a more gentle Sonic, a Sonic that wouldn’t attack you in an alley way and steal all your money, but leave your iPhone because it’s password protected anyway.
This new and improved Sonic seems like a nice guy. He seems warm, he seems intelligent, he seems like the old Sonic, but 3D instead.
Understandably, people are only delighted that the studio took the time to re-imagine Sonic’s look. Whether they’ll actually go and see the movie now, is another thing.
Old Sonic vs New Sonice..
They listened and made him 1000X better!#SonicMovie pic.twitter.com/812vqsQePX
— Chaos (@Chaosxsilencer) November 12, 2019
https://twitter.com/matzzacre/status/1194264912807309313?s=20
sonic is now officially babie I love him pic.twitter.com/yE7hCjvsS5
— ✩°。⋆⸜(ू˙꒳˙ ) CEO of gatitos 🍃 (@mana_chan__) November 12, 2019
All is forgiven Paramount.
I love how they basically tried to make Sonic look as adorable as possible.#SonicMovie pic.twitter.com/BhZYjIu7qz
— JWCartoonist (C0mms OPEN) (@JWCartoonist) November 12, 2019
You can check out the new – and entirely acceptable trailer – for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie here: