

In this movie, it really feels like you're going to great lengths to remind us that these kids are kids, and not just heroes. So in some ways, it almost felt like doing two films at once.

It felt like we finished that movie, and then Paramount was like, "All right, let's do another one." And we just went right back to work. They're like family, and a lot of the same crew came back to work on this, so it was really like we almost never stopped. It was so nice going back to work with the cast, we have such a great rapport.

To see people embrace that so positively was just wonderful, and it was like, "Okay, everyone seems really excited about where we're headed." So just knowing that, we were able to make an entire movie that was just Sonic and Robotnik and get those characters introduced, and that would free us up to bring in Knuckles and Tails and all that. Despite upping the ante, however, Fowler told Insider that it was just as important to imbue the film's cast of "misfit kids" with plenty of heart as it was to show them pummeling each other on screen. In turn, its sequel "Sonic the Hedgehog 2" blows the "Sonic" universe wide open, incorporating further characters from the franchise, like Knuckles the Echidna (Idris Elba) and Tails (Colleen O'Shaughnessey), as well as plot elements like the famous Master Emerald. "That film was really just to set stuff up, introduce the characters of Sonic and Robotnik, and just get them right," Fowler told Insider in an interview the day after "Sonic the Hedgehog 2" premiered in Los Angeles. The first "Sonic the Hedgehog" movie was, according to director Jeff Fowler, all about relationship building.Ī road-trip movie with "Sonic" flair, it introduced classic characters like Sonic (voiced by Ben Schwartz) and Doctor Robotnik (Jim Carrey) to the movie universe, as well as newer ones like Tom Wachowski (James Marsden), a local cop who becomes Sonic's pseudo-dad by the end of the film. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
