Sonic The Hedgehog Got A Makeover In New Trailer After The Internet Had A Meltdown
Let’s flash back to a million years ago in internet time to April 2019: Paramount released a “Sonic the Hedgehog” movie trailer and people totally freaked out.
Not because they were excited about the live-action movie starring a character reminiscent of their childhoods, but because the iconic hedgehog’s CG design was straight-up terrifying.
Sonic had a seemingly endless supply of very large human teeth, and it made many fans uneasy, to say the least:
WHY ARE HIS TEETH SO HUMAN pic.twitter.com/qanTExwjJI
— C-3PREE-O (Preeti Chhibber) (@runwithskizzers) April 30, 2019
[Sonic the Hedgehog movie pitch meeting]
Jim Carrey: [chanting] teeth, teeth -
Director: teeth, TEETH
Paramount execs [pounding the table]: TEETH, TEETH, TEETH! https://t.co/eDzzAmSjDC— Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (@Hello_Tailor) April 30, 2019
Good morning to absolutely everyone and everything other than live action Sonic the Hedgehog’s creepy human teeth xx pic.twitter.com/yJX6WPW7Li
— Alanah Pearce (@Charalanahzard) April 30, 2019
The collective meltdown led director Jeff Fowler to postpone the movie in order to redesign the blue hedgehog that walks upright to look a little more ... realistic. Or at least something that more closely resembled what he looked like in the original video games.
Well, folks, it seems like its finally time to take a gander at the new newly designed Sonic.
Today is the DAY! Could not be more excited to share our new Sonic with you. THANK YOU for your patience and support. This wouldn't have been possible without the fans. #SonicMovie
— Jeff Fowler (@fowltown) November 12, 2019
“Today is the DAY!” Fowler tweeted on Tuesday morning. “Could not be more excited to share our new Sonic with you. THANK YOU for your patience and support. This wouldn’t have been possible without the fans.”
The new trailer features a new Sonic — with bigger eyes and smaller, albeit still human-looking teeth, throughout.
Here’s a good side-by-side of the Sonic in the original trailer and the new version.:
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the cursed sonic walked so the new sonic could run #SonicMovie #SonicTheHedgehog pic.twitter.com/GFnwCF3eDL
— L ☕ (@midnightmatcha) November 12, 2019
Ben Schwartz of “Parks and Recreation” fame voices Sonic, while James Marsden of “Westworld” plays Tom, the hedgehog’s new best friend who helps him defeat his enemy — Jim Carrey as the evil Dr. Robotnik.
In August, not long after the initial Sonic backlash, Carrey expressed concern over allowing fans to sway the character’s design while speaking at the 2019 Television Critics Association summer press tour.
“It’s an interesting thing. You just become their Frankenstein monster at some point, right?” he said, per Entertainment Weekly. “But I don’t know. I don’t know quite [know] how I feel about the audience being in on the creation of it while it’s happening.”
He continued: “So we’ll have to see what that entails, because sometimes you find that the collective consciousness decides it wants something, and then when it gets it, it goes, ‘OK. I just wanted it. I didn’t care about it. I just jumped on the bandwagon,’ or whatever. But I don’t know what’s going to happen.”
Well, it seems what happened was a redo of the redesign. By the looks of it on Twitter, most fans approve of Sonic’s new look and thanked Fowler for listening to them.
THANK YOU, KING
— Sonic Movie Countdown 🦔 (@SonicCountdown) November 12, 2019
Thank you too, sir! You're definitely getting my money. pic.twitter.com/ADlDustLJY
— Spider Ninja (CEO of complaining) (@Spider__Ninja) November 12, 2019
It was. God, it so was
— Sneedy (@SnideyMcCoolGuy) November 12, 2019
JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEFF pic.twitter.com/D54wqthBk6
— Shadii (@Ghenwyhar) November 12, 2019
Y’all did a damn good job with the glow-up. Fantastic stuff!
Thank you for listening to the feedback!!!— Jlipper | #TeamTrees (@OfficialJlipper) November 12, 2019
Though, some still have a few jokes about the whole fiasco …
If you don’t You don’t deserve
love me at my: me at my: pic.twitter.com/adt71THbWA— Padma Lakshmi (@PadmaLakshmi) November 12, 2019
… It seems the new new Sonic is a win.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.