Sonic the Hedgehog 2’s Super Bowl Spot Brings Back a Robotnik Classic

Despite a really tough first look, the unique Sonic the Hedgehog film wound up being an surprising delight. From the first trailer again in December, you may inform that the sequel deliberate on delivering much more of the identical high-speed thrills as the unique. With lower than two months to go earlier than its spring launch, the promo launched for the Super Bowl does an ideal job of getting you hyped for the Blue Blur’s second cinematic outing.

Outside of Sonic (Ben Schwartz) and a returning Jim Carrey as Doctor Ivo Robotnik/Eggman, the massive cause to see the sequel comes from Sonic’s fellow animal heroes, Tails and Knuckles, voiced respectively by Colleen O’Shaughnessey and Idris Elba. Where the primary trailer gave us transient snippets of how Sonic’s ever energetic self would play off of Tails’ wide-eyed youth, this new industrial places a much bigger highlight on the echidna to indicate how he’ll be a fairly sturdy impediment for Sonic. Director Jeff Fowler wasn’t kidding when he mentioned that Elba was actually placing the work in to play the purple echidna: He seems like an actual risk that’ll put Sonic on his toes through the movie’s many (and hopefully fairly spectacular!) motion beats.

But whereas Knuckles is the star, it’s controversial that the spotlight right here is our first glimpse at Eggman’s personal gigantic robotic model of himself, trying prefer it’s ripped proper out of the traditional video games. We’d seen teases of this struggle within the first trailer, from Sonic and Tails’ missile-laden perspective. Now we get to see simply what was firing these missiles for a second, and it’s actually good.

Considering how a lot of a smashing success the primary film surprisingly was, it will be straightforward for Sonic 2 to easily relaxation on the laurels of the earlier movie whereas bringing in its hero’s BFFs. But it’s clear that director Jeff Fowler is taking the sequel very significantly and desires to make it worthy of the love that followers have put into the Sonic franchise over the a long time. This is a film that’s mentioned to be “even more Sonic-y than the first one” from storyboarder Tyson Hesse, and it seems like he wasn’t kidding on that entrance.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 will launch in theaters on April 8.

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