Sonic the Hedgehog's Genesis

Sonic the Hedgehog's Genesis is an upcoming American animated action adventure direct-to-video film produced by Paramount Animation and release by Paramount Home Video. It will be directed by Takashi Iizuka and Jeff Fowler, and written by Pat Casey, Josh Miller, Amy Hennig, Josh Scherr, and Paul Dini. The film is traditionally animated, being art directed by Yuji Uekawa.

The film is set several years before the events of Sonic the Hedgehog, and tells the story of a young toddler named Sonic the Hedgehog and how he met the soon-to-be Dr. Eggman. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, being praised for its music, animation, story, direction, humor, and emotional depth. It was also a commercial success selling over 30.5 million copies over the course of twenty-seven months.

The film is rated PG for action sequences, suggestive material, and mild language.

Synopsis
Thirteen years before the events of Sonic the Hedgehog (1991), Sonic was born in Christmas Island to Jules and Bernadette Hedgehog, who were normal hedgehogs. Ivo Robotnik, a twenty-six year old grad major along with several other classmates traveled to Christmas Island and took custody of many animal inhabitants including Sonic. Sonic and his animal friends were then relocated to the United States. Ivo and several of his colleagues experimented on Sonic and he was exposed to a drug called "JFL-214", which was artificially created retrovirus designed by Ivo's grandfather Gerald Robotnik to cure Neuro-Immune Deficiency Syndrome. The test proved a success with most of the animal test subjects, most notably Sonic. Due to inhaling the experimental drug that, through neurogenesis, repairs brain cells and increases mental capabilities, Sonic soon grew the ability to speak and was given human sapience and anthropomorphic abilities. Sonic was naturally born with super speed, and all the shoes he wore all burnt out to them not being able to tolerate friction. It was then when Ivo created the Power Sneaks, a special pair of shoes that are friction proof and can show no signs of superficial damage even when Sonic is moving at the speed of sound. With the help of Ivo and his super speed, Sonic battled the test subjects who went wrong and a tribe of Echidnas and other villains.

Cast
Benjamin L. Valic as Sonic the Hedgehog

Mike Pollock as Ivo Robotnik

Kirk Thornton as Mr. Robotnik

Cindy Robinson as Mrs. Robotnik

Johnny Brennan as Joey Robotnik (Ivo's cousin)

Mary Jo Catlett as Grandma Ferreira (Ivo's maternal grandmother)

Wallace Shawn as Old Man Phil

Tom Kenny as Professor Smith

Doug Lawrence as Peter Schwartz

Nolan North as David Mullen

Dee Bradley Baker as Derek Hill

Kevin Michael Richardson as Tyrone Williams

April Stewart as Teresa Goldman

Sirena Irwin as Nancy Tobler

Roger Craig Smith as Franco Nelson

Thomas F. Wilson as the Bar Owner

Seth MacFarlane as Victor Falcone

Rachael MacFarlane as Chloe Falcone

Billy West as Animal friend #1

Eddie Deezen as Animal friend #2

Cree Summer as Animal friend #3

Eric Bauza as Animal friend #4

Lacey Chabert as Animal friend #5

Alanna Ubach as Sofia Sanchez

Gael García Bernal as Jonathan Sanchez

Carlos Alazraqui as Damien Sanchez (Jonathan's brother)

Libertad García Fonzi as Ashley Sanchez

Tom Hanks as Frederick Simpson

JB Blanc as Manny

Dan Castellaneta as Bonzo Clown

Nancy Cartwright as Barbara Todd

Yeardley Smith as Tracey Boucher

Julie Kavner as Martha and Margo Content

Harry Shearer as Ronan Allen

Hank Azaria as Joseph Allen

Mike Judge as Ocho the Echidna

Steve Blum as Jeff the Crocodile

Seth Green as Jarvis the Hedgehog

Bill Fagerbakke as Charlie the Hedgehog

Rodger Bumpass as Jules "King" Biology

Carolyn Lawrence as Wendy Figg

Clancy Brown as George the Mouse

Daran Norris as Jackson Armstrong

Vanessa Marshall as Mother Nature

Jim Cummings as Dingo the Wombat

Sex & Nudity

 * A brief kiss between 2 characters.
 * Several female characters wear clothing that is tight and/or that reveals cleavage. Some also speak in sensual voices.
 * Ivo Robotnik asks Sonic what is tall, ginger-haired, and red all over, which Sonic replies to "Your mom when its that time of the month", a reference to menstruation.
 * One neon sign says "XXX". Another reads "Chicas desnudas en vivo", which translates to "Live Nude Girls".
 * Characters engage in suggestive innuendo (e.g., “So much for foreplay”, "Did you see what that lady did to that guy's cherry?," "My body went from A to D in seventh grade", "This road's a little bumpy, hold onto your nuts", "A girl can't fake that kind of heat", "I think of her all the time, especially in the bathroom", "He gave me scabies").
 * The camera pans on a villain briefly groping the posterior of a female character.
 * One of the characters has two photos on his desk, one with a wife and kid, and another with him and another woman, implying that he was an adulterer.
 * A few male characters are sometimes seen nude, but their private parts are seen pixelated.
 * Sonic walks in on Ivo watching something on his computer, and Ivo immediately turns it off, suggesting that he may have been watching porn. Ivo frantically erases his search history as soon as Sonic leaves.
 * One male character hides behind a bush and gropes his crotch, and when Ivo notices this he says "stop jerking off", indicating that the character was masturbating.
 * When Dingo the Wombat approaches a young girl with his arms up she says "Oh no, please don't play with my body", and Dingo replies "Do I look like Bill Cosby to you?"
 * Teresa says that she is a throat player, and Sonic replies "That sounds kinda gross".
 * When two characters of opposite sex inform Professor Smith that they were going camping, Professor Smith says "Okay, but don't make love with each other now".
 * A few kids play strip monopoly, but nothing explicit is seen. A girl is seen in her bra and underwear and a boy is shown without a shirt, and a girl starts to unbutton her shirt, but is interrupted.

Violence & Gore

 * Many scenes of fairly intense, high-stakes violence, including threats to the city.
 * There are several fight scenes that involve martial arts, and characters ngage in physical violent exchanges (punching, kicking, stomping, etc.) with villains, in conjunction with shrieks of pain, realistic gunfire, and occasional cuts and bruises.

Profanity

 * 12 uses of the word 'damn'.
 * British profanity is also present, such as 6 uses of 'bloody' (including 'bleeding Christ'), 1 use of 'bugger', 1 use of 'gobshite', and 1 use of 'bollocks'.
 * 15 uses of 'God', 3 uses of 'Jesus', 1 use of 'Christ', and 1 use of 'Jesus Christ' as exclamations.
 * 2 uses of 'ass' and 1 use of 'arse'.
 * 5 uses of 'hell'.
 * One middle finger gesture.
 * 1 use of the Japanese profane term 'Tawagoto' (たわごと), which translates to 'shit'.
 * 3 uses of 'bastard', and 1 use of the Italian word 'bastardo'.
 * 14 uses of 'crap' (1 paired with 'bull' and another paired with 'horse').
 * 2 uses of 'piss'.
 * 1 use of 'Bitchin'
 * Name-calling is present such as 'Sissy', 'Peckerwood', 'Hick', 'Trailer Trash', 'Hillbilly', 'Honky' 'Slut', 'Whore', 'Loser', 'Moron', 'Pumpkin-head', 'Campbellite', 'Infidel', etc.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

 * A girl is seen smoking a cigarette, then flicking it away before she's done smoking.
 * One scene takes place in a bar, and some men are shown drunk.
 * There are several scenes depicting characters drinking alcoholic beverages (Whiskey, Wine, Beer, etc).
 * Sonic ceases a narcotic sale.