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‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3’ Review: Faster and More Fun Than the Other ‘Sonic’ Movies, with Jim Carrey in an Epic Turn
Director Jeff Fowler has become a flimflam magician of energy in what turns into a cracked parody of superhero movies.
The movie skips around in time, with a backstory set 50 years ago, and it surrounds Ben Schwartz’s genial, valiant Sonic, the speed-demon Sega mascot, with enough competing anthropomorphic furballs to keep our sympathies spinning. There are several important new characters, notably Shadow, a red-striped black hedgehog, created from a secret government program, who is set up as Sonic’s revenge-seeking rival. This sort of dual performance is something we’ve seen a zillion times (the film makes a meta joke of it), but how perfect it is for Carrey, an actor who is always on some level carrying on a conversation with himself.
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