Sonic The Hedgehog (Film)

Sonic The Hedgehog is a 2021 animated Sci-Fi Heist Comedy film directed by Steven Spielberg. The film features Roger Craig Smith, Mike Pollock, Idris Elba, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, and Jason Griffith reprising their roles from past Sonic media with Brad Dourif, Jeff Goldblum, Millie Bobby Brown, Joseph Quinn, Joe Keery, and Elsie Lovelock joining the cast. The film follows Team Sonic as they must team up with a group of thieves to steal a valuable gem that will cost hundreds of lives if it gets into the wrong hands. The film was released on May 4th, 2021 and received positive reviews with Critics praising the Humor, Voice Acting, Story, Direction, and Action Sequences

Cast
Roger Craig Smith as Sonic The Hedgehog, a Carefree Hedgehog who’s always looking out for Adventure. Roger reprises his role from the games

Brad Dourif as Scourge The Hedgehog, a Bounty Hunter who’s the leader of Team Thievery

Jeff Goldblum as Sonic Sr, Sonic’s Father

Millie Bobby Brown as Amy Rose

Mike Pollock as Dr. Eggman

Joesph Quinn as Sliver The Hedgehog

Joe Keery as Dr. Starline

Colleen O'Shaughnessey as Tails The Fox

Idris Elba as Knuckles the Echidna

Elsie Lovelock as Tangle the Lemur

Jason Griffith as Shadow The Hedgehog

Pervious Sonic voice actors Ryan Drummond, Jaleel White, and Martin Burke make cameos as members of Team Thievery. James Rallison voices a member of the Restoration alongside Danny DeVito, Jennifer Tilly, Micheal Huang, Cary Huang, John DiMaggio, Cindy Robinson, Graham Taylor, Ian Woodside, Eric Bauza, Scott Menville, Jeff Bergman, Frank Welker, Carlos Alazraqui, and Adam Katz.

Production
In mid 2019, it was announced that Paramount Pictures had won a bidding war against Universal Pictures and Lionsgate for the rights to make a Sonic the Hedgehog film with GLITCH Productions providing the animation with GLITCH’s founders producing the film

In late 2019, it was revealed that Steven Spielberg was directing due to his grandkids being big fans of the source material, the cast was announced with Roger Craig Smith and Mike Pollock reprising their decade long roles as Sonic the Hedgehog and Dr. Eggman respectively with the film having a release date of December 8th, 2020

Marketing
on February 16th, 2023, the first teaser trailer for the film was released with a new release date of May 4th, 2021

Release
Sonic The Hedgehog was released on May 4th, 2021. it was previously set to release on December 8th, 2020, but was delayed due to Covid-19

Home media
Sonic The Hedgehog was officially released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 3rd, 2021, both releases had a new short film called Sonic: Hail to the King, the short film takes place directly after the events of the film about Sonic, Sliver, Tangle, and Whisper having to protect a valuable book from Rough and Tumble

Sequel
A Sequel titled Sonic The Hedgehog Vol. 2 was released on July 7th, 2023 to extremely positive reviews with many considering it a massive improvement over the original