Movie Review: Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie (1999)

Genre:	Anime
Year:	1999
My Rating:
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Now here's a movie for hard-core old-generation Sonic fans. Brought to you by the animators who did the intro and ending FMVs of Sonic CD, this movie acts sort of as a prequel to the game. It introduces Metal Sonic (called Mega Metal Sonic in the movie) and Knuckles (why is he wearing Nack's hat?)

Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie synopsis: Robotnik kidnaps the president's daughter, Sara, threatening to hold her hostage until Sonic and Tail go to Robotropolis and shut down the battery in order to stop Metal Robotnik, who had taken over. Sonic reluctantly accepts and travels to the city, where they meet Knuckles head for the battery. But it all turns out to be a trick by Robotink, Sonic accidentally activates Mega Metal Sonic and a great battle ensues.

The movie is packed with classic Sonic-style fighting and witty humor. I'd recommend the subbed version over dubbed, but the dubbed dialog was okay. I'll give a slight content warning for this movie though, but not for the battle scenes. There are a couple of 'off-color' scenes that aren't appropriate for really little kids, but they'll most likely go over their heads.

Watching this made me long for the old days of video-gaming. In fact I'll go dust off the old Genesis and play a few rounds

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Movie Review: Transformers (2007)

Genre:	SciFi
Year:	2007
My Rating:
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Last week I got to catch Transformers on tv. I always wanted to see this movie-version of my favorite tv '80s tv show, and since it did get over 7 stars on IMDB, I had high hopes. But unfortunatly I was mostly disappointed and fustrated with this movie. Here are some of the reasons:

1.) Dialog: It ranged from mildly clever to absolutly moronic, I actually cringed hearing some lines.

2.) Action: Aboslutely chaotic! The whole movie kept jumping back and forth between 3 different locations without warning or structure. And there are other movies that have used this type of fast-paced intercutting between locations and have utilitzed it well; this movie didn't.

3.) Robots: Optimus was the only one that was believable and in-character. I didn't even recognize the other robots.

4.) Megan Fox: She isn't the best actress in the world. But I felt her character was simply a distracting love interest who served very little interest in the movie other than being the love interest of the main character.

But I can't bash this movie entirly. The only thing I can praise about this movie is the CGI. The robots were amazingly designed and their movements and reactions were very realistic. Even when they were locked in battle you could still catch all the detail and mechianics of their design.

I would only recomend this movie to anyone who is interested in fantastic CGI graphics and don't mind some bad dialog.

Have you seen Transformers? Did you love it? Hate it? How do you think this movie could have been improved? Leave a comment.

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