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Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie Director: Kazunori Ikegami Number of Items: 1 Format: Animated, Color Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Running Time: 55 minutes Studio: A.D. Vision Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2004-01-13 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 113 Average rating: 4.0 "*can't think of good title*" I bought the movie around the time it came out, but could only find it in VHS. I have never seen it in any other language then English. I thought it was a great movie, though I thought some things were off by alot. Tails and Sonic had good voices, that I thought fit the characters, but Knuckles voice didn't fit him at all and made him sound like he was catching a cold. Also, knuckles was never able to fly yet they show him floating/flying along after sonic and tails, he has only been able to glide and I think they shouldn't have given him the ability to "fly", though not all people notice that and I wouldn't expect younger kids to notice this either. I havn't seen the movies, or shows that I were told came before this, so they have probably used in earlier videos that sonic and tails could, what looks like, "teleport" when they are trying to show him running I think. It looks like he "zaps" himself to the loaction he wants to go. I thought they got Knuckles character good, except for the voice, it showed that he liked to hunt for treasure, that he can dig, has a weakness to girls, ext. The music was good, the overall story was good, and, I guess everything else was good. So I'd give it 4 stars and that if your a sonic fan, this movie is a great movie for you to buy! "Pain in my Egg" The first disappointment I found with the DVD I got was it had no Japanese audio track to it. But this may not be the same version as what I bought (I had the mainstream PAL R2 DVD) so you should enquire first if that's important to you :) Second disappointment was the terrible voice actors for the English dub. The characters (especially Tails) had the most annoying sounding voices. Third disappointment is that it seems to stray from the Sonic plot a little too much. It may have just been me, but I don't recall Knuckles being Sonics best friend, I thought it was Tails. Plus where is this Land of the Sky? I thought Sonic was on Mobius? And what about Metal Sonic? Didn't he kidnap Amy Rose in SonicCD? That's not the way this plot tells it. The good points about this movie are the action fighting scenes and the constant flow of wacky humorous scenes which aren't afraid to crack a few naughty jokes now and then ;) The conflict between Sonic and Metal Sonic that happen at the end of the movie is worth waiting for. The beginning half of the movie was a little slow, with the only decent scene being the fight with the Metal Egg robot. I actually think Eggman wasn't taken seriously enough throughout the movie. He started at the beginning of the movie VERY well, but after that just became a bumbling idiot. The scene at the end, with Metal Sonic plunging to his doom is the most touching of all, as Sonic tries to save him but his help is refused as Metal Sonic announces that there can only be one Sonic as the lava coming up from the ground slowly devours Metal Sonic. I think a new Sonic movie is required, one that has a better story because this one is rather weak when you compare it to the Dreamcast games. Sonic fans will love this movie, but I don't think anyone else will. "Good but not great" I'm a huge Sonic fan so naturally, I'm going to want to buy this DVD. The animation isn't the best but it's not as bad as the "Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog" series. The English dub isn't that good at all. I don't think Sega ever intended on having Sonic sound annoying at all. Sonic and Knuckles are NOT best friends, they're rivals. The fact that Tails is a technical genius is addressed as well as him being immature. The whole rival angle between Sonic and Knuckles does get addressed at the end of the movie making for a rather humorous ending. I did catch an adult oriented joke in the movie. The reason that I still give this 4 stars because it has a well thought out story behind it. The Japanese voices seem more natural than the English dubbed voices. "Fun to watch! Esspecialy if your a Sonic fan" This single, relatively short 60 minute movie WITHOUT A DOUGHT tops the Adventures of Sonic the hedgehog, and the other old Sonic saturday cartoon. Any Sonic fan should watch this instead, (and probably the relatively new Sonic X anime as well). The only characters that people will recoginize are Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Robotnik (no Amy or anyone like that), there are other "movie-specific" characters as well, though they don't add a whole lot to the story. Robotnik tells Sonic and Tails that his generator is going to blow sky high, and with it the entire planet, of course, they expect he's lieing, but what if he isn't? For the final battle Sonic ends up battling his robotic look-alike (kinda), Metal Sonic, which people may remember from the older video games. I like this movie because it reminds me of the video games, (lots of frantic action and jumping around). The animation style is a little weird here, but is okay for a change of pace. The english dubbing is just bad, but you should be able to get around that. I could have been a little longer, 60 minutes is barely feature length, but it's fun to watch as kind of a "quick flick". Great if you're a Sonic fan, but if you've never watched anime before I'm not sure what you'll think at first! "Problem with my movie" My friend Annajean and I where working on a Sonic Movie based on the two games: "Sonic Adventure 2 BATTLE", and "Sonic Heroes" and based on the two TV Series: "Sonic Underground", and "Sonic X". But I didn't know that there is a Sonic movie which is an hour. Annajean thought that we should name the movie "Sonic Heroes: The Movie" but I think that's not a good idea. I thought about "Sonic Adventure Heroes Underground BATTLE X" but I think it's more like a video game title. Can you help me?