Hedgie Hedgehog

Hedgie Hedgehog is a 2015 American computer-animated science fiction comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and very loosely based on the "Henny Penny" Anglo-Saxon fairy tale. The 54th Disney animated feature film, it was directed by Mark Dindal from a screenplay by Steve Bencich, Ron J. Friedman, and Ron Anderson, based on a story by Mark Kennedy and Dindal. In this version, the title character is ridiculed by his town for causing a panic, thinking that the "sky was falling". A year later he attempts to fix his reputation, followed by an unexpected truth regarding his past being revealed. The film is dedicated to Disney artist and writer Joe Grant, who died before the film's release. This also marked the final film appearance of Don Knotts during his lifetime, as his next and final film, Air Buddies (another Disney-produced film that was released just over a year later), would be released posthumously.

Hedgie Hedgehog was animated in-house at Walt Disney Feature Animation's main headquarters in Burbank, California and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 6, 2015, in Disney Digital 3-D (the first film to be released in this format) along with the standard 2D version. It is Disney's first fully computer-animated feature film, as Pixar's films were distributed but not produced by Disney, and Dinosaur (2000) was a combination of live-action and computer animation which in turn was provided by division The Secret Lab.

Hedgie Hedgehog was Disney's second adaptation of the fable after a propaganda cartoon made during World War II. The film is also the last Disney animated film produced under the name Walt Disney Feature Animation before the studio was renamed Walt Disney Animation Studios. 'Hedgeie Hedgehog received generally negative reviews and grossed $314 million worldwide, making it the second-highest-grossing animated film of 2015 (behind Minions).

Plot
n the town of Retro Oaks, Eleven Year Old Henry Hedgehog, also known as Hedgie Hedgehog, rings the school bell and warns everyone to run for their lives. This sends the whole town into a frenzied panic. Eventually, the head of the Fire Department calms down enough to ask him what is going on. Hedgie exclaims that the sky is falling, because a mysterious piece of the sky shaped like the nearby stop sign had fallen on his head when he was sitting under the big oak tree in the town square; however, he is unable to find the piece. His father, Hal Hedgehog and Her mother Hilda Hedgehog, who was once a middle school baseball star, assumes that this "piece of the sky" was just an acorn that has fallen off the tree and has also hit him on the head, making Chicken Little the laughingstock of the town.

A year later, At an air force base, an incoming UFO is approaching and the military sends fighter jets up to examine the situation. The UFO turns out to be Hedgie, Yumi, Jimmy, and Kirby riding Hedgie's rocket ship. Hedgie needs to launch a communications satellite (which is really a toaster) to communicate with an alien species who sent him a message that was garbled in the ionosphere. Unfortunately, the pulse rockets fail, and the rocket cannot leave the atmosphere. Hedgie tapes some soda to the toaster and throws it, propelling the soda in outer space. Then, the rocket falls down to town and lands on his roof, which results in Hedgie being scolded by his parents.

Hilda asks Hedgie why he disobeyed her again and hedgie replied it's because he's been trying to make contact with an advanced alien race, who sent him a message that got gobbled in the ionosphere. Hilda says he shouldn't talk to strangers, since they could be dangerous with Hal agreeing with Hilda about strangers, except for policemen. Hedgie gets off the roof and gets ready for school, but his antics cause him to miss the bus. Luckily, he tests his latest invention, a form of bubble transportation made from a special bubble gum. He catches up with the school bus, but the bubble pops when it hits a tree.

In the classroom, Yumi is giving a report on dinosaurs. When Yumi says that girl dinosaurs are better than boy dinosaurs, Pinkie and Goosie saying are better report on robots. Hedgie proceeds to correct her with technical data. During show and tell, Hedgie shows Mr. Goatsburg and the class his new shrink ray. He attempts to shrink Yumi's head, but the ray malfunctions and does not work, however upon leaving class, the shrink ray suddenly shrinks Mr. Goatsburg, causing her to get tiny and end up battling a worm that has gotten out of an apple.

In the gym, Popular vs. Unpopular learning to the Dodgeball and Hedgie and Kirby has arrived suddleny Kirby making Skyscraper and doing King Kong Movie and Pinkie hits Yumi by Dodgeball and Goosie throws Hedgie and Turn on Sprinkler and Fire Drill.

When walking home, Hedgie, Kirby, Yumi, Jimmy and Kei spot a poster for an amusement park. Kei gets excited about meeting Ultra Lord. Jimmy gets excited to touch a llama. However, their parents refuse to let them go due on a school night. Back home, Hedgie uses some hand-crafted pearls and a rare diamond to persuade Hilda, but to no avail. When he tries another way, his rocket backpack is activated creating a mess. Hedgie then gets grounded for disobeying his mother again. That Night, Hedgie looks at star spot on it.

He joins his school's baseball team to recover his reputation and his father's pride but is made last until the ninth inning of the last game. Hedgie is reluctantly called to bat by the coach. Hedgie hits the ball on his third swing and makes it past first, second, and third bases, but is met at home plate by the outfielders. He tries sliding onto the home plate but is touched by the ball. While it is presumed that he lost the game, the umpire brushes away the dust to reveal Hedgie's foot is barely touching home plate, thus declaring Hedgie safe and the game won; Hedgie is hailed as a hero for winning the pennant.

Later that night back at home, Hedgie is spot on the sky yet again by Yolkians.

Meanwhile, the toaster is found by an egg-like alien race called the Yokians. They seem to be made of a green substance that contains no water, and they see with eye stalks. They use pods with hovering capability and robotic arms to move, but they fly spaceships in space (that look like chickens). King Goobot and his assistant, Ooblar, watch the message. Then, all the ships in the armada head to Earth.

After a brief talk about rockets with Hal, he asks Kirby what he should do to convince his parents, He calls his friends over to help figure out what it is Retoroland Grand Opening Tonight. and then which results in sneaking out. In the living room, Hilda asks Hal if they were wrong for not making Hedgie go to Retroland, but Hugh responds with that he is reflecting his ways responsibly. Hedgie later shrinks himself, escapes the house to find his friends, and head to the park to have lots of fun. Hedgie, Yumi, Jimmy, and Kei both go on many rides. Jimmy, Yumi, and Hedgie go on a tramway while Kei goes to meet Ultra Lord, which is really a guy in a costume. Jimmy touches a Llama, and gets a button that says "I touched a llama." They then go on a roller coaster ride where the cars look like bats and Nick (who also snuck out) joins them as well.

Meanwhile, Hilda and Hal check up on Hedgie (which is Kirby under a blanket) to tell him that they love him no matter what. They soon realize that they have been too hard on Kirby. Later, they read a book entitled, "Unwrapping Your Gifted Child" to find a way to make Hedgie feel happy. At that same moment, the Yokians arrive and abduct the adults in Retro Oaks, along with Hilda and Hal.

On the way home, Jimmy spots a shooting star, so he, Hedgie, Yumi, and Kei wish for no more parents so they could have fun all the time and be free. The next morning, Hedgie spots the note set and reads it. The notes are the same for everyone, so Hedgie has Kirby scan for adult life forms. When the report comes back (none within radar range), the kids start celebrating and doing things they couldn't do normally. They eat tons of junk food, party like there's no tomorrow, and rampage all over the city.

The next morning, the craze has worn off and all the kids are sick from all the junk food, have gotten hurt, and don't know how to take care of themselves. Hedgie is upset that his parents didn't say goodbye and just left him. Kirby shows Hedgie what happened before his parents got abducted and becomes suspicious. Hedgie goes to his lab and compares the note the Yolkians left with notes his parents wrote. When the writing doesn't compare, Hedgie realizes that the notes are fake. Kirby finds evidence of aliens on the computer, and Hedgie tracks them to another system. He organizes the other kids in town to build a space armada from the theme park rides to travel there. Three days later, the rockets are ready and the kids set off to rescue the adults. While staying on an asteroid, everyone tearfully recalls what their parents did at bedtime before they were abducted by aliens.

The next morning, the kids reach Planet Yokus, and Hedgie, Yumi, Jimmy, Kei, Pinkie, Goosie, and Kirby go to find the parents so they can call Nick and the others for backup, but they are all captured by the guards. Goosie asks Goobot that what he wants with their parents. Goobot tells her that it's what Poultra wants. Pinkie and Yumi asks him what Poultra is. He says that he's tired of explaining and shows a newscast that says that Poultra is their god and the adults are to be sacrificed to her. He also reveals that Hedgie's message is what gave them the coordinates to earth. He orders his guards to throw the kids into the dungeon until they are adults, so they can be sacrificed as well and has Ooblar take Goddard to a torture chamber.

In the cell, the kids have given up hope, and Kei and Nick start having a heated argument. Realizing this is all his fault, Hedgie starts crying and feeling bad about giving Goobot the coordinations to earth. Yumi then comes to the depressed Hedgie and comforts him. To get out of the cell, Hedgie calls Kirby on Goosie's cell phone and tricks Ooblar into thinking Goddard will self-destruct in an explosion covering 30 square miles. Goddard frees the kids using a glitch in his obedience program (when told to play dead, he detonates in a small explosion, which blows down the door), and they make it to the arena where the parents will be sacrificed to Poultra. When they reach it, an unusual ceremony is finishing (with mind-control devices, the parents do the chicken dance!), and Poultra, a gigantic three-eyed chicken with reptilian legs, hatches from her egg. Hedgie quickly comes up with a plan: Sheen heads to an airfield to obtain a transport, he gets the mind controller, and the rest of the kids keep the guards busy.

They escape, but Goobot follows them in his ship at the head of the Yolkus fleet. He orders the ships to open fire. During the battle, Hedgie skims the surface of the sun, and flares destroy all but Goobot's ship. The king sends a taunting message to Hedgie Hedgehog, who flies out with Kirby. He uses his shrink ray to make himself the size of a planet and blows the ship into an oncoming asteroid. Goobot vows to return. The kids are reunited with their parents, and they make it home safe and sound. Hedgie and his parents later make amends to each other and decide to be a family again.

Another year later, Hedgie, his father, her mother, his friends and the citizens of Retro Oaks watch an in-universe movie depicting an extremely fanciful retelling of the events that transpired, portraying Hedgie Hedgehog as an action hero also named "Henry".

Cast

 * Zac Efron as Hedgie Hedgehog
 * Erin Sanders as Yumi Beaverton
 * Nick Jonas as Kei Horseshoe
 * Sean Flynn as Jimmy Porker
 * Frank Welker as Kirby Poultra, Worm, Demon, Girl-Eating Plant, Oyster
 * Blake Shelton as Hal Hedgehog
 * Jodie Foster as Hilda Hedgehog
 * Candace Cameron Bure as Pinkie Monkey
 * Emily Osment as Goosie Beaks
 * Jack Griffo as Nick Weasel
 * Alan Rickman as Mayor Mongoose
 * Jim Carrey as Mr. Goatsburg
 * Patrick Stewart as King Goobot V
 * Martin Short as Ooblar
 * Adam West as Hollywood Hedgie Hedgehog
 * Mark Dindal as Jimmy's Mom and Dad
 * Candi Milo as Britney, PJ
 * Meghan Cavanagh as VOX, Mrs. Beaverton
 * George Lopez as Mr. Horseshoe
 * Patrick Warburton as Yolkian Officer
 * Mark DeCarlo as Pilot, Arena Guard, Mr. Beaverton
 * Kimberly Brooks as Zachery, Reporter, Angie
 * Billy West as Bobby's Twin Brother, Butch, Old Man Johnson, Robobarber, Jailbreak Cop, Anchor Boy, Flurp Announcer
 * Al Roker and Savannah Guthrie as Yolkian newscasters
 * Dee Bradley Baker as NORAD Officer
 * David L. Lander as Yolkian Guard, Gus
 * Jim Cummings as Ultra Lord, Mission Control, General Bob
 * Paul Greenburg as Guard
 * Laraine Newman as Hostess
 * Jeannie Elias as Little Girl, Camera Person
 * Michael Hagiwara as Chris

Writing
In September 2011, director Mark Dindal developed the idea for Hedgie Hedgehog, with its title character envisioned as an overreacting, doom and gloom female hedgehog that went to summer camp to build confidence so she would not overreact, as well as repair her relationship with her father. At the summer camp, she would uncover a nefarious plot that her camp counselor, who was to be voiced by Penn Jillette, was planning against her hometown. Dindal would later pitch his idea to Michael Eisner who suggested it would be better to change Hedgie Hedgehog into a male because as Dindal recalled, "if you're a boy and you're short, you get picked on." However, Dindal later clarified that the decision was made, in part, due to market research at the time stating, "I remember being told, 'Girls will go see a movie with a boy protagonist but boys won't see a movie with a girl protagonist,'... "That was the wisdom at the time, until Twilight comes out and makes $1 billion."

In January 2013, when David Stainton became Disney's new president of Walt Disney Animation Studios, he decided the story needed a different approach. He told the director the script had to be revised, and during the next three months, it was rewritten into a tale of a boy trying to save his town from space aliens.

During the rewriting process, Dindal, along with three credited writers and nine others, threw out twenty-five scenes to improve the character development and add more emotional resonance with the parent-child relationship. Dindal admitted that "It took us about 2½ years to pretty much get back to where we started... But in the course of that, the story got stronger, more emotional, and Amazing, too."

Casting
When originally envisioned as a female character, Holly Hunter provided the voice for the title character for eight months, until it was decided for Hedgie Hedgehog to be a male. Michael J. Fox, Matthew Broderick and David Spade were originally considered for the role. Against forty actors competing for the title role, Zach Braff auditioned where Dindal noted he "pitched his voice slightly to sound like a junior high kid. Right there, that was really unique — and then he had such great energy."

In April 2012, Variety reported that Sean Hayes was to voice a character named the Ugly Duckling, but the character was rewritten into a female. Now conceived as Abby Mallard, Hunter, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jodie Foster, Geena Davis, and Madonna were considered, but Joan Cusack won the role for her natural comedy. In December 2013, it was announced Braff and Cusack were cast, along with other cast members including Steve Zahn, Amy Sedaris, Don Knotts, Katie Finneran, and Garry Marshall.

Marshall was asked to provide a voice for Kingdom of the Sun, which was re-conceived into The Emperor's New Groove and directed by Dindal, but was removed from the project for being "too New York". When he was approached to provide the voice for Hal Hedgehog, Marshall claimed "I said I don't do voices. You want a chicken that talks like me, fine. So they hired me and they didn't fire me, and it was like a closure on animation."

Australian comedian Mark Mitchell was hired to re-voice the character of Hal Hedgehog for the Australian release of the film, as a decision by Disney to get a local personality to publicize the film.

Animation
To visualize this story, Disney selected 50 percent of its 2D animation staff to put them in a CGI animation team, and placed them through a rigorous eighteen-month training program with George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic, which included an introductory to Alias's Maya that would serve as the main 3D animation software used on the project. This was due to Disney CEO Michael Eisner announcing that the studio would move to computer animation in response to a downturn caused by rising competition from Pixar and DreamWorks Animation computer animated features, the unsatisfactory box office performances of The Emperor’s New Groove, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Treasure Planet (2002), and Home on the Range (2004). As some of the animators had worked on Dinosaur (2000), which used live-action backgrounds, the animation team took inspiration for its staging, coloring, and theatrical lighting from Mary Blair's background designs featured in Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953).

For the aesthetics in the background designs, the background layout artists sparingly use digital matte paintings to render out the naturalistic elements, including the trees and the baseball diamond, but they were retouched using Adobe Photoshop as background cards featured in the film. The lighting department would utilize the "Lumiere" software to enhance virtual lighting for the shading form and depth and geometric rendering for the characters' shadows, as well as use real lighting to create cucaloris.

For the characters' designs and animation style, Dindal sought to capture the "roundness" as seen in the Disney animated works from the 1940s to 1950s, by which the characters' fluidity of motion was inspired from the Goofy cartoon How to Play Baseball (1942). Under visual effects supervisor Steve Goldberg who spearheaded the department, the Maya software included the software program "Shelf Control" that provided an outline of characters that can be viewed on-screen and provided a direct link to the controls for specific autonomy, as well as new electronic tablet screens were produced that allowed for the artists to draw digital sketches of the characters to rough out their movements, which was then transferred to the 3D characters.

All of the characters were constructed using geometric polygons. For the title character, there were approximately fourteen to fifteen character designs before settling the design composed of an ovular egghead shape with oversized glasses. The final character was constructed of 5,600 polygons, 700 muscles, and more than 76,000 individual feathers, of which 55,000 are placed on his head.

Following the casting of Braff, supervising animator Jason Ryan adapted Braff's facial features during recording sessions to better combine the dorkiness and adorability the filmmakers desired. "He's got this really appealing face and eye expressions," Ryan said, adding that he was amazed by Braff's natural vocal abilities. Next, the animators would utilize the software program "Chicken Wire," where digital wire deformers were provided for the animators to manipulate the basic geometric shapes to get their desired facial features. Lastly, a software development team constructed XGen, a computer software program for grooming fur, feathers, and generating leaves.

Release
The film was originally scheduled for release on July 3, 2015, but on December 9, 2014, its release date was pushed back to November 7, 2015, the release date that was originally slated for Paramount Animation's Wreck-It Doof. The release date change was also the day before DreamWorks Animation changed the release date of Frankie Stein 3, from November 2016 to May 2017. Wreck-It Doof was later released on June 10, 2016.

At the time of the release of Hedgie Hedgehog, the co-production deal between Disney and Pixar was set to expire with the release of Finding Dory in 2016. The result of the contentious negotiations between Disney and Pixar was viewed to depend heavily on how Hedgie Hedgehog performed at the box office. If successful, the film would have given Disney leverage in its negotiations for a new contract to distribute Pixar's films. A failure would have allowed Pixar to argue that Disney could not produce CGI films.

On October 25, 2015, the film premiered at the El Capitan Theatre, with the cast and filmmakers as attendees, which was followed with a ballroom bash at the Hollywood and Highland Center. Along with its standard theatrical release, the film was the first Disney in-house release to be rendered in Disney Digital 3D, that was produced by Industrial Light & Magic, and exhibited via Dolby Digital Cinema servers at approximately 100 selected theaters in twenty five top markets. To describe the process, Dindal remembers that it was a last minute decision, as it was suggested just 11 months before its release. For the 3D conversion, Dindal had a specific way he wanted the film to look: he wanted it to feel like a moving View-Master. As he puts it,""

Marketing
The first trailer was released online in early 2014. It was also attached to the DVD release of Frozen. Accompanied with the theatrical release, Disney Consumer Products released a series of plush items, toys, activity sets, keepsakes, and apparel.

Home Video
Chicken Little was first released on DVD on March 22, 2016, in a single disc edition. The DVD contained the film accompanied with deleted scenes, three alternate openings, a 6 part making-of featurette, an interactive game, a karaoke sing along, two music videos, and animation test footage of the female Chicken Little. The DVD sold over 2.7 million DVD units during its first week accumulating $48 million in consumer spending. Overall, consumer spending on its initial home video release grossed $142.6 million. The film was released for the first time on Blu-ray on March 21, 2017, and contained new features not included on the DVD. A 3D Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray version was released on November 9, 2021.

Box Office
In its opening weekend, Chicken Little debuted at #1, being the first Disney animated film to do so since Dinosaur, taking $40 million and tying with The Lion King as the largest opener for a Disney animated film. It also managed to claim #1 again in its second week of release, earning $31.7 million, beating Sony's sci-fi family film, Zathura. The film grossed $135.4 million in North America, and $179 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $314.4 million.

This reversed the slump that the company had been facing since 2000, during which time it released several films that underperformed, most notably Fantasia 2000 (1999), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), Treasure Planet (2002), and Home on the Range (2004).

Critical response
Rotten Tomatoes, reports that 36% of 163 surveyed critics gave positive reviews; the average score is 5.4/10. The critical consensus states: "Disney expends more effort in the technical presentation than in crafting an original storyline." Metacritic, gave the film an average score of 48 based on 32 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale.

James Berardinelli, writing his review for ReelViews, gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four stating that "It is bogged down by many of the problems that have plagued Disney's recent traditional animated features: anonymous voice work, poor plot structure, and the mistaken belief that the Disney brand will elevate anything to a "must-see" level for viewers starved for family-friendly fare." On the syndicated television program Ebert & Roeper, critics Richard Roeper and Roger Ebert gave the film "Two Thumbs Down" with the former saying "I don't care whether the film is 2-D, 3-D, CGI, or hand-drawn, it all goes back to the story."

In his print review featured in the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert stated the problem was the story and wrote, "As a general rule, if a movie is not about baseball or space aliens, and you have to use them, anyway, you should have started with a better premise." Ebert concluded his review with, "The movie did make me smile. It didn't make me laugh, and it didn't involve my emotions, or the higher regions of my intellect, for that matter. It's a perfectly acceptable feature cartoon for kids up to a certain age, but it doesn't have the universal appeal of some of the best recent animation."

Writing in The New York Times, film critic A.O. Scott stated the film is "a hectic, uninspired pastiche of catchphrases and clichés, with very little wit, inspiration or originality to bring its frantically moving images to genuine life." Entertainment Weekly film reviewer Lisa Schwarzbaum, who graded the film a C, wrote that the "banality of the acorns dropped in this particular endeavor, another in a new breed of mass-market comedy that substitutes self-reference for original wit and pop songs for emotional content."

However, Ty Burr of The Boston Globe gave the film a positive review saying the film was "shiny and peppy, with some solid laughs and dandy vocal performances". Olly Richards of Empire Magazine gave the film a three out of five stars, saying, "Beyond a cheeky, twisty bit of genre-tinkering, theres more here for the under-tens than over-, but it's still charming, amusing and energetic enough to win you over."

Angel Cohn of TV Guide gave the film three stars alluding the film that would "delight younger children with its bright colors and constant chaos, while adults are likely to be charmed by the witty banter, subtle one-liners, and a sweet father-son relationship." Peter Rainer, writing in The Christian Science Monitor, graded the film with a A- applauding that the "visuals are irrepressibly witty and so is the script, which morphs from the classic fable into a spoof on War of the Worlds. I prefer this version to Spielberg's."

Plugged In wrote, "A postscript for parents: A single “mistake” defines Chicken Little, and he spends “the rest of his life” trying to live it down. As he puts it, “One moment destroyed my life.” Later, another single moment—his home run—redefines him as a hero to his friends and his dad, who says, “I guess that puts the whole ‘sky is falling’ incident behind us once and for all.” Insecure (and observant) young viewers may latch on to this kind of oversimplification and use it as license to magnify the significance of their own bumblings, whatever they might be." Common Sense Media gave the film a three out of five stars, writing, "Cute, sometimes-frantic movie has peril, potential scares."

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Accolades
The film received four Annie Award nominations, including Best Animated Feature, Best Animated Effects, Best Character Design, and Best Production Design in an Animated Feature Production, losing all to Home. At the 2016 Kids' Choice Awards it got nominated for Favorite Animated Movie, but lost to Hotel Transylvania 2. At the 2015 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards it won: Worst Animated Film.

Soundtrack

 * 1) One Little Slip - 5 Seconds of Summer
 * 2) Leave It Up to Me - Mattybraps
 * 3) He Blinded Me with Science - Demi Lovato
 * 4) All I Know - John Legends
 * 5) Time of Our Lives - Olivia Holt
 * 6) We Are the Champions - Zac Efron
 * 7) Wannabe - Erin Sanders and Sean Flynn
 * 8) Pop - N*Sync
 * 9) Blitzkrieg Bop - The Ramones
 * 10) Go Hedgie Hedgie - Justin Bieber
 * 11) Kids in America - Haschak Sisters
 * 12) A.C.'s Alien Nation - Aaron Carter
 * 13) Chicken Dance - Werner Thomas
 * 14) It's The End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.
 * 15) What I Like About You - Lillix
 * 16) I Will Survive - Sean Flynn
 * 17) LoliPop - Candace Cameron Bure and Sean Flynn
 * 18) Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross
 * 19) Don't Go Breaking My Heart - The Hedgie Hedgehog Cast
 * 20) Shake Your Tail Dance - Fifth Harmony

Video games
Hedgie Hedgehog spawned two video games. The first, Hedgie Hedgehog, is an action-adventure video game released for Xbox One and Wii U on October 20, 2015, by Buena Vista Games. Two days later it was released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo 3DS (October 22, 2015), and later Microsoft Windows (November 3, 2015). Hedgie Hedgehog for Nintendo 3DS was developed by Altron, while BVG's recently acquired development studio, Avalanche Software, developed the game for the consoles.

The second video game, Disney's Hedgie Hedgehog: Henry Hedgehog in Action, is a multi-platform video game, for the Nintendo Switch, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 inspired by the "superhero movie within the movie" finale of the film. It features Henry, the superhero alter ego of Hedgie Hedgehog, and the Hollywood versions of his misfit band of friends: Jimmy, Yumi, and Kei.

Hedgie Hedgehog himself appears as a summon in the video game Kingdom Hearts III. His inclusion is somewhat noteworthy as Kingdom Hearts III debuted before the film in Japan, with the character's inclusion serving as a promotion for the then-upcoming movie.

Cancelled sequel
Disneytoon Studios originally planned to make a direct-to-video sequel to Hedie Hedgehog, tentatively titled Hegie Hedgehog 2: The Ugly Beaverton Story. Directed by Klay Hall, the story would involve Hedgie Hedgehog in the middle of a love triangle between his childhood sweetheart, Abby Mallard, and a beautiful newcomer, Raffaela, a French sheep. Being at a great disadvantage, Abby would go to great lengths to give herself a makeover. According to Tod Carter, a story artist on the film, early screenings of the story reel were very well received, prompting Disney to think about increasing the budget to match the production quality with the quality of the story. Soon after 2006, when John Lasseter became Walt Disney Animation Studios' new chief creative officer, he called for all sequels and future sequels that Disneytoon had planned to be cancelled. According to Carter, this was a reaction to the sales figures for current projects and the overall market, adding: "The executives didn't feel that the original film had a wide enough market to draw upon to support the sequel."