Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (film) - XxR0T$A2xX

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is a 2024 action-adventure, comedy, and science fiction film based on the Sonic the Hedgehog series and the sequel to the 2022 film Sonic the Hedgehog 2. It was released on June 14, 2024. It is the third entry in the Sonic the Hedgehog film series created by Paramount Pictures, and licensed by Sega.
== Synopsis ==
A few years after the events of Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Shadow the Hedgehog stole the Master Emerald from the government. As the government, including Sonic’s own father figure Tom Wachowski, frame Sonic for taking the emerald and try to arrest him, Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles, now joined by their new companion, Amy Rose, must stop Robotnik and Shadow from releasing the all-powerful Death Egg.
== Plot ==
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Dr. Eggman has discovered Shadow the Hedgehog, a powerful hedgehog created by his grandfather, Professor Gerald Robotnik, has been discovered by Dr. Robotnik and freed. The two have been working together to uncover Gerald’s project that he had been working on, known only as “Project Ark.” Two years after Robotnik was last defeated, Shadow breaks into a government base to steal the Master Emerald, which has been government property for some time. Many agents try to fight Shadow, but he uses his power of teleportation to get away with the emerald.
Meanwhile, Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles are living in San Francisco, where their father figure, Tom Wachowski moved after his wife, Maddie, divorced him and started working to study alien animals like Sonic. Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles stop a bank from being robbed. After that, they go shopping at a mall. In a TV store, they see a news report of Sonic being framed for stealing the Master Emerald from a bank. Just then, they are caught by security guards at the mall. The guards pursue them and they eventually flee them and arrive home. Tom arrives back at his apartment. The heroes think he is there to save them, but he actually has multiple SFPD officers behind him, with the intent to arrest his former friend. Fortunately, Tails saves them using a ring that transports them to his world. Tails says he has one friend who has a house they can lay low at, but he hasn’t talked to her in a long time. Back at Tom’s apartment, the SFPD officers take a bag of Sonic’s rings So they can catch Sonic.
Shadow gets a flashback of a mysterious girl launching him into space, but his memory hasn’t fully recovered yet. At their secret warehouse base, Robotnik and Shadow plan to find what Gerald’s ultimate plan was. According to a file, Gerald sought out to find the Master Emerald, that’s why Shadow stole it. They plan to break into the government’s database, but Eggman works on improved robots to stop any enemies in his way. 
On Tails’s world, the heroes arrive at the house of Tails’s friend, Amy Rose. Tails and Amy have been friends since they were young, but Amy moved to a different city than Tails, so Tails had no friends until he met Sonic. Amy suggests that Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles stay on her world to avoid the conflict on Earth, but Sonic corrects her and says that they need to clear his name and find out who really stole the Master Emerald. Amy agrees to join the team because she is skilled with a hammer.
Tom shows Sonic’s planet map to the other SFPD officers, but none of them have any idea which planet Sonic is on. Because Sonic marked it as a place to escape to, Tom guesses that Sonic is on the mushroom planet, but they do not find him there. Then, they get to use some robots that they stole from Eggman to search for Sonic on all seven worlds.
The team plan to go back to Earth, but there are Eggman robots outside of Amy’s house. Amy shows off her hammer skills on these robots, impressing her friends. The team arrive back on Earth, in a familiar location, Sonic’s original hometown of Green Hills. They hide out in Sonic’s original cave. Sonic feels sad that he has to live there again, but the others comfort him by telling him he is not alone and has friends. Tails takes one of Eggman’s robots that was chasing them and searches its data, finding that Robotnik has returned and is heading for a government database. Sonic opens a portal and goes there to stop his enemy.
Shadow and Robotnik break into the government database, but figure out that Robotnik’s own robots are under the control of the government. Shadow eventually finds the database and Eggman hacks it, but Sonic arrives, coming to the conclusion that Shadow stole the Master Emerald. Sonic fights Shadow while Tails, Knuckles, and Amy fight against the government’s hacked Robotnik robots. Eventually, everyone from both teams is arrested.
== Cast ==
* Ben Schwartz as Sonic the Hedgehog
* Idris Elba as Knuckles the Echidna
* J.K. Simmons as Prof. Gerald Robotnik
* James Marsden as Tom Wachowski
* Colleen O'Shaughnessey as Miles “Tails” Prower
* Cindy Robinson as Amy Rose
* Jim Carey as Dr. Robotnik
* Keanu Reeves as Shadow the Hedgehog
* TBA actress as Maria Robotnik
* Tom Butler as Commander Walters
== Development ==
After the previous two films were criticised for being predictable and childish, Paramount wanted to make a more ambitious sequel. They hired director Jon Watts, who previously directed the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Spider-Man films. However, Jeff Fowler would remain producer. 
=== Announcement ===
The film was announced in July 2022, but very little information was revealed. That Christmas, more was revealed, including Jon Watts being the director, the release date, and the title sequence, which had an orchestral remix of “Live and Learn,” the main theme song of the game Sonic Adventure 2. The following Valentine's Day, there was a teaser poster that hinted that Amy Rose would be in the film, and it was also announced that filming had begun. That July, it was revealed that Cindy Robinson, who played Amy Rose in the games, would return to her role, and that Christian Bale would play Shadow the Hedgehog.
=== Marketing ===
The film’s official trailer was released in February 2024, during the fifty-fourth Super Bowl. and the second trailer released that April. There was much merchandise released for the film from Jakks Pacific, and even LEGO sets based on the film. The film had an original song, “SpeedSwag,” performed by ScHoolboy Q. The film and its predecessors were collectively adapted as a video game on the Nintendo HDS, PlayStation GamePort, and Xbox Series M, titled Sonic the Hedgehog Film Trilogy. 
== Reception ==
=== Critical ===
Compared to the first two films, Sonic the Hedgehog 3’s critical reception was quite high. It is currently certified fresh at 78% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is the highest a video game movie has ever gotten. The critics’ consensus said “A video game sequel with a larger scope and more mature themes than its predecessors, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is a film that is as exciting for older fans as it is for its younger target audience.” Most critics praised the film’s ambitious scopes and themes, as well as the portrayals of the characters and writing.
Critical Reception	Critical Reception
Site 	Score
Rotten Tomatoes 	78%
Metacritic 	62/100
IMDb 	7/10
CinemaScore 	B+
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