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Jim Carrey (and Jim Carrey) Elevate Sonic the Hedgehog 3
These movies aren’t anything if they’re not fun, and Jim Carrey understands that better than anyone. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 gives us two of him.
The fans of the video games will surely eat up all the shenanigans involving sarcastic CGI critters speeding around space and fighting one another — as is their right — but these films tend to have a lot more heart and unpredictable energy when these characters interact with actual people. The first film was carried along by alien hedgehog Sonic’s (voiced by Ben Schwartz) discovery of a new earthly home with Sheriff Tom Wachowski (James Marsden) and his wife, Maddie (Tika Sumpter), then really came to life with the arrival of the demented Dr. Ivo “Eggman” Robotnik, played by Jim Carrey in a revival of his unhinged ’90s-era wild-man energy. The actor stands slightly above the fray with his wink-wink dialogue and ridiculous physical comedy; his self-aware, spoofy shtick is an overtly comic version of what the silly action scenes are themselves trying to achieve with their repurposed one-liners and too-fast-for-human-eyes velocity.
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