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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Jim Carrey to play Robotnik in the Sonic movie

Time out, time out, time out, take a deep breath y'all..

Remember when Heath Ledger was cast to play The Joker? Ya'll remember how everyone went into panic mode saying it was a terrible choice? He turned out to be an awesome Joker. I'm just sayin.



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WHAT? It's going to be live action? Are they insane?! Mixing CGI cartoony animal mascots and live action does NOT work. See the live action Smurfs movies, the live action Spongebob movie, the live action Alvin and the Chipmunk movies, etc. The closest that such a movie ever came to not being horrible were the live action Scooby Doo ones. But that was easier to translate the concept to live action than Sonic will be. They'd do better with 3D animation like the Sonic Boom series, but based on a better Sonic game.



CaptainExplosion said:
HylianSwordsman said:
WHAT? It's going to be live action? Are they insane?! Mixing CGI cartoony animal mascots and live action does NOT work. See the live action Smurfs movies, the live action Spongebob movie, the live action Alvin and the Chipmunk movies, etc. The closest that such a movie ever came to not being horrible were the live action Scooby Doo ones. But that was easier to translate the concept to live action than Sonic will be. They'd do better with 3D animation like the Sonic Boom series, but based on a better Sonic game.

The SpongeBob movie was only live-action for a few minutes, and done in a way that complements the show's silliness. With the Smurfs movies is didn't work because the Smurfs were made more realistic looking, and the Alvin and the Chipmunks movies stank because they relied too much on "modern" humor.

I haven't seen any concept art for Sonic yet for this movie. I'm most worried it'll be like the Smurfs, more realistic looking in an unsettling way. They've shown they're not afraid to redesign Sonic. Best we could hope for is something that looks like Sonic '06, but hopefully better story-wise.



CaptainExplosion said:

No Sonic project could possibly have a worse story than Sonic 06, not even Sonic the Comic or Archie Sonic.

Well yeah, obviously it would have to be more than better, it would have to be a massive step up story-wise, but I just meant that aside from its horrible story, Sonic 06 had an okay depiction of a cartoony Sonic alongside more realistic looking people. So I could see it not being horrible if it has a good story, good humor, and a similar artistic style to 06. Not sure I trust Jim Carrey to be Robotnik though.



This film is going to be weird. It's just gonna be Jim Carrey acing doing a Jim Carrey in front of a badly CGI'd blue blurb.

Can't wait to see it



this whole thing sounds horrible.



 

PwerlvlAmy said:
I thought the movie sounded bad already, this just makes it even worse. It's gonna rival Super Mario Bros live action now, no doubt.

I actually like that movie. It's so bad it's good



I would be fine with this if I thought he wasn't going to "Jim Carrey" the character, but I have a bad feeling that's exactly what will happen.



 

Why?...

Well, I guess he can't be worse then Sonic 06's Eggman...



 



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