Sonic World Blast (2023 film)

Sonic World Blast is a live-action/3D/2D animated hybrid musical action-adventure comedy film directed by Chris Wedge and produced by Chris Meledandri and Shigeru Miyamoto. It is based on the Sonic the Hedgehog universe. The ensemble cast includes Damien McLeod, Chris Pratt, Bella Ramsey, David Gasman, Coleen O'Shaughnessey, Patrick Warburton, Mike Pollock, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Charlie Day, Ameerah Falzon-Ojo, and Oliver Nelson.
== Synopsis ==
When Bowser threatens to take over the Earth, it is up to three heroes, Sonic, Mario, and Hilda, to set aside their diffeerences and save both the Mushroom Kingdom and the world!
== Plot ==
One bright night, on the sacred island of Kaka, an asteroid falls on the beach. The asteroid had 7 power crystals known as the Chaos Emeralds. They held infinite power, and in the wrong hands, they could destroy the universe as we know it! That is where the story begins. One day, Bowser's airship was flying in the clouds. He was searching for the 7 Chaos Emeralds and where they were. But little did he know, Mario was behind him, flying in a stolen Clown Cart. Mario jumped on the airship, and the fight was on! Bowser knocked Mario down into the ground, but then a portal opened up. Roll the title cards! One day, the same day we had with Mario, Sonic was riding across New York City. He was spinning, running, dashing and farding! Later, he came to a stop and rested under a tree. Suddenly, Eggman attacked! He spread his robot bosses from previous Sonic games (no, it's just Metal Sonic and Chaos 0. Nothing to see here.)! Sonic knew this was a movie with convoluting plotlines, so he ran as fast as he could, on top of a tall building! Eggman's robots found him and flung him into the water!
Mario came out of the portal and into the waters in which Sonic was drowning in. He dragged him back up the surface, as Sonic gave a sigh of relief. Mario told him that he wouldn't tell anyone that he saved him. But then, a whale eats them. Inside the whale, Sonic and Mario try to think of a way to get out of the whale before they get swallowed, when all of a sudden, a little girl's voice sings out a pop song. It was Sonic and Mario's old buddy, Hilda! She uses her trusty mic (unaware that it's the Chaos Microphone, an item vital to the film) to sing Sonic a lullaby, but then another portal opens up! The same portal Mario fell into to get here! The gang fell into Siberia, and...
== OST ==
=== Score ===
The score is composed by Brian Tyler. Some songs in the score were composed by Tee Lopes (who also worked on the OST for Sonic Mania).
=== Songs ===
* Sonic Youth by Crush 40
* In The Star Light by Bella Ramsey
* Vandalize (Censored ver.) by Bella Ramsey
* Hard Times (Ice Cap Zone) by The Jetzons
* I'm Here (Orchestral Mix) by Bella Ramsey (composed by Brian Tyler and Astromorphic)
* Love Together by Nona Reeves
* Sonic Underground (World Blast mix) by Crush 40
== Opening Logos ==
=== Sony/Columbia ===
The 100th anniversary variant, but on the Sony logo, two rings circle around the logo, and the roll of old Columbia logos are replaced with the title screens of previous Sonic games from the past. This was used as reference to the opening animation for Sonic Jam. The rings were hand-drawn using Mercury Filmworks (Hilda's animation engine).
=== Sony Pictures Animation ===
It's basically the PlayStation Productions logo, but they use Sony Animation characters, including some non-Sony IPs, like Sonic the Hedgehog, and once forgotten animation characters, like Hilda.
=== Nintendo ===
TBA
=== Sega ===
The film logo and the logo from the mobile port of Sonic 1 and 2 combined.
=== Original Film ===
Colored using red, blue, and cyan, like Mario, Sonic, and Hilda.
== Promotion ==
There was a tie-in with McDonald's to sell more Sonic Superstars Happy Meals. In one of the TV spots for the movie, an old commercial for the 1996 video game Sonic 3D Blast was re-enacted.
== Cast ==
The Big Three
English 	French 	Spanish 	Japanese
Damien McLeod	Michel Mella 	Angel de Gracia	Jun'ichi Kanemaru
Chris Pratt 	Emmanuel Garijo	Angel de Gracia	Tomokazu Seki
Bella Ramsey 	TBA 	TBA 	Taeko Kawata
Rayman and the others
English 	French 	Spanish 	Japanese
David Gasman	Emmanuel Garijo	Alex Saudinos	TBA
 	 	 	
 	 	 	
== Trivia ==
* This film was made to revive the Hilda franchise before she gets forgotten.
* Sonic World Blast was the first Sony Pictures Animation movie to be outsourced by both Illumination Entertainment and Mercury Filmworks combined (with the help of Marza Animation Planet).
* During development, Damien McLeod (Sonic's VA) couldn't think of a name for the movie. Some ideas were "Cross-Play" or "The Retro Gaming Movie", until he finally settled on "Sonic World Tour". But Sega misheard it as "Sonic World Blast", hence the name you see today.
* This film was meant to be succeeded by the theatrical adaptation of Sonic Unleashed, a prequel series called The Kinda Crazy Misadventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, a sequel called Sonic Time Blast, and an all-Hilda musical spinoff, which is the theatrical adaptation of Knuckles' Chaotix.
* One of the film's taglines "You gotta do what?" is a reference to PaRappa the Rapper and his signature catchphrase "I gotta believe!", as PaRappa and his little sister Pinto both make a cameo in one part of the movie.