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Sonic the Hedgehog 2 You know what, I fucking loved this movie and I won't apologize. I enjoyed the first movie, but part of me still had to admit it was missing a lot of the things people love about Sonic. This one, however, is definitely a movie written by Sonic fans for Sonic fans. A lot of the jokes landed for me and there are also a ton of fun winks and references to the games and even the memes but they flow in a way that's natural and doesn't feel forced or in your face like the references in Ghostbusters: Afterlife often did. Tails and Knuckles are highly enjoyable and they feel true to their character, even when they took the no-nonsense proud warrior approach with Knuckles, which Idris Elba absolutely nails. Carrey is great as Robotnik, naturally, but aside from him the movie is probably 90% focused on Sonic and co. and the human characters, for the most part, take a back seat. I didn't even mind Tom and his wife in the first film but it made this one so much better to write them out for a while. There is one part during the second act that primarily focuses on the humans for a little longer than I think it should have, but it got back to Sonic right when it was starting to lose me so I can forgive that brief misstep. There are a few small plot contrivances here and there, but nothing egregious enough to take me out of it and frankly I was having so much fun that I didn't care. This has probably dethroned Detective Pikachu as my favorite video game movie ever made.