Welp, I was finally able to see it. Overall I think I enjoyed Detective Pikachu more, but as far as many other game adaptations go, it wasn’t bad, and definitely better for having fixed Sonic’s design.
Most of my issues with it had to do with just being too short to really build anything. Still hard to care for side characters that have absolutely nothing to do with the series as a whole, so there’s very little emotional weight to scenes that are supposed to be dramatic.
Jim Carrey is always weird but it’s especially weird here where it’s even hard to tell whether he actually did any research on the character or if he was told just to act as himself. A different interpretation is fine and all, just confusing when some short lines sounded a lot like Mike Pollock or Deem Bristol. With all the retro touches, though, it wouldn’t surprise me if old clips were just edited in. Of Carrey just happened to sound a bit similar at points.
Other oddities, well, not much I guess...kind of strange that the echidna were shown so early, and I don’t ever recall anything about any owl guardians in the rest of the series, but maybe that’s something to do with comics I never read.
In any case, looks like they’re planning on a sequel, in which case I can only hope the donut lord stuff takes a back seat to anything to do with Sonic. But I also worry they’ll retread old ground if they start getting into all the dumb stuff with Shadow or Silver or anything after that.
