Free With Ads - Sonic The Hedgehog, with Matt Apodoca

Episode Date: February 18, 2026

This week we had comedian Matt Apodoca on the podcast to talk about the 2020 video game movie Sonic The Hedgehog, about a hedgehog who is living fast and may indeed die young.Tune in next week when our movie will be... Death Of A Salesman (1985)-----Listen or watch Matt Apodoca's video game podcast Get PlayedAlso check out Matt on the show Strip Law on Netflix!Follow Emily on Instagram and visit Emily's ETSY store FlemGemsTHE JORDAN MORRIS WORLD TOUR!! (jk, it's just a couple of dates)2/25 - Collectors Paradise North Hollywood, 5pm - 7pm2/26 - Predator Double Feature @ The Frida Cinema in Orange County, 7pm https://thefridacinema.org/coming-soon/2/28 - Books With Pictures Eugene, OR 12pm - 3pmAlso Jordan is doing some dates with the Doughboys. You can get your tickets at BirdFuck.com2/28 - Portland3/1 - Seattle

This is free with ads, the podcast that asked the question, why pay HBO max 12 bucks a month to watch grim, dark episodes of The Last of Us, when you can go online for free and watch a fun and funny video game adaptation that's perfect for kids and emotionally stunted millennials who spend all their disposable income on Funcoops. I'm Jordan Morris. And I'm Emily Fleming. Today's movie is Sonic the Hedgehog,

the smash-hit family comedy that succeeded despite not having a cameo from Chronic the Hemphog. Sonic's cousin that appears on bootleg t-shirt sold at headshops. With us as always is the super producer of the he freak Matt Lee, Hittance with those lightning fast drops. Oh no. I just came. Oh, Matt, you just freaked out nerds of a certain age. You played the most stressful music ever to be composed,

the music that plays in Sonic when you're about to drown. That's right, dude. That is... Honestly, when I went searching for it and listened to it, I haven't listened to it since I was a little kid, and I realized a lot of my sexuality is based on this very, I don't need to go into detail. Okay.

I have no idea what that was because I did not play this video game, but I saw a roach right where it was peaking. So I was very scared as well. So you're just scared for a different reason. Emily, for you and anybody who didn't play the Sonic games in the late 80s early 90s, there were swimming levels, but when you were about to drown, the music would speed up like that, you know, and you had to get air before you drowned, and then Sonic would like gasp for air and die, and that music speeding up was so stressful, but apparently to some arousing,

Matt. I mean, listen, breathplay is a whole other thing. Do we have a guest? You know what we do? Let's see how he feels about breath play. Hey, this is the perfect guy to talk about this movie with us. He's an actor, an improviser, and one of the hosts of the hilarious video game podcast, Get Played, Matt Apodaka. Hi, Matt.

Thank you guys for having me. I'm glad we made good on the teased promise of this happening on Get Played. We were in the high 80s to low 90s percentage-wise of making it happen, and we did do it. We did do it. We got to 100%. I was on Get Played on a recent episode and we're like, hey, Matt's booked. And of course, you don't want to say for sure in case things happen. Podcast records often get pushed.

But here you are on the show. There could be a Spectrum outage. Of course, you know the folks at Spectrum. But he's here and he's ready to talk about Sonic. But first, we're going to get to know him a little bit more in a segment we call Talk to Guest. Talk to Guest. Matt, as a guy with a video game podcast, You from time to time will have to weigh in on video game movies.

Yes. Do you have some, what are the highlights and low lights of the world of video game movies? Yeah, the highlights, I would say, are pretty few and far between. I think this franchise... Hold on. Yeah, I know. I know. I know.

I know. Hold on. Well, because I feel like the ones that do it right are the ones that adapt, the world of these games. I mean, these are not movies, but the Fallout TV series, I think is really successful because it's not adapting a particular story

from the game. So nobody can really get their nerd feelings hurt by them doing it wrong. There's sort of adapting concepts from the world of that game, which there's so many. I just like it because there's a fuckable, noseless guy.

That's about it. I don't know anything about the game. Is he more fuckable because he doesn't have a nose? Yes, you're like, oh wow, okay. Yes, because you can't see that scary hair line. I thought I was going to say it because he can't smell it. You know the ghoul's going to be down there. Oh, the ghoul goes down, town.

Why do you think I look like this? Wait, what? I may be Walton Gaggins, but I'm not going to be Walton Gaggins. He's going to be Walton Gaggins. gargling I was at a garg gotta gargle that pussy like it was scope

I was at a press event for the first season of of fallout and the moderator kept calling him Walter

and nobody was correct to him and I was like I know his name is fake but we have to try you gotta try wait his name is fake

I didn't know that well I mean Walton do you know anybody else that's not their last name that I just know the show, the Walton's. But the video game movies that I think are great. I mean, I liked, I think these movies, in particular, Sonic 3.

Yeah, you're a big Sonic 3 had. If you even liked Sonic 1 a little bit, you've got to get to Sonic 3. I think Sonic 3 is like just an incredible adaptation. It's so good. You also have the added bonus of Keanu Reeves playing Shadow, who is like, Like, if you thought Sonic was cool already, you ain't seen shit. Right. Shadows like Sonic, but with a gun?

With a gun, right? And he has a gun and he likes Latina's canonical. That is... Oh, hell yeah. I mean, me and Shadow have a couple things in common, I guess. I'm surprised that they let them have a gun. Yeah, that is crazy. Yeah, he has a gun, and in the movie, he does fire the gun.

Okay. He's great. does the Akura slide up a skyscraper, it rocks. Is it bullets or is it like lasers? It's lasers. But in the games it's bullets. Don't you think that's kind of how they get away with like having guns is like it's lasers instead of bullets? That's somehow more palatable to family-friendly.

A hundred percent. Interesting though. This is a deep aside in more conversation for the video game show. But they just did a what's called a Nintendo Direct, which is like a presentation of upcoming games for the platform and they showed the most the newest resonant evil game and that game those games have a lot of gun violence and stuff but to show off the gameplay of the of people shooting at zombies and you know creatures and things like that uh the player missed every shot to keep it family friendly so there was no contact no heads exploding or anything like that i guess if you're like

a like a kid watching that you're like i got to play this game i'm better than this guy like whoever played this sucks. That's a good, that's kind of how that works with like, you know, the candy crush games when you have to deal with an ad Oh yeah.

A different game. They play it so badly that you want to play it so that you can be better than that. I could save the king. This guy's an idiot. The way that, like,

my credit card now. The way that no, like VPN could save me now is true because I have downloaded every stupid little game like that because I'm like, I can do that matter. But we actually,

we keep hoping that the Resident Evil movies become free with ads because we want to watch them. How do you feel about those? Can I ask? Those are so different because they're not really that they did they did what I said was good the wrong way, which was like they sort of like, let's just take the name Resident Evil and kind of go from there. And they become like fake movies in a movie you're watching that's showing a fake movie

of like a parody of an action movie kind of. And they are extremely enjoyable trash. They are not good at all, but there hasn't been a second of one that I haven't enjoyed because they're just so crazy. They're absolutely, they're like if Fast and Furious was dumber.

It's so crazy. But finally, a movie's not for Brainiacs. You don't need a college degree to enjoy these things. I don't even have to turn my brain off for this one. Yeah, yeah. Do you have an opinion on the filmed Mortal Kombat adaptations? You know, the Mortal Kombat ones are also, like, I was not a Mortal Kombat kid, like, so I didn't grow up.

There is a weird amount of lore and story in those games. What you think is one of the funnier things about those games is that there's any story at all. Right. But I really actually liked the most recent one, and I'm very excited about the new one. Because I thought it was, I thought it was like as good a job as you could do for something like that. Like there's, you know, there's characters.

I mean, it's also like, yeah, this movie with characters. Can you believe this? Sure. Wild. I trailed off. But it was, there's like, there's crazy characters that, you know, they throw their hats and they, you know, slice people's heads off. There's, like, people with, like, powers and, like, metal bodies.

It's great. It's all good fun. I like that stuff. I like, the ones that are. are actually kind of good are like the ones that are more for children weirdly like the I really like Detective Pikachu just like as a movie as a lifelong Pokemon fan

I loved it but I was like as a movie this is about as good as it gets for this type of thing it's really really fun and also you're watching this whole movie you're like I wish they were real I wish I could just get go get one I wish I could have one another one and make it fight another one I wish I could trap one

I don't know this movie definitely had a little bit of that for me. Like, oh, I would love this little blue, like, for a creature to be, like, keep it in my pocket kind of thing. Then you get you killed. That's true. It's like a recipe for disaster. He's like a magnet for trouble.

Yeah. I just love to die. Well, we do want to talk about Sonic. First, I want to jump over to some other kinds of filmed entertainment. You are doing a voice in an upcoming. Netflix series. Tell us about who you play on Strip Law coming soon to your Netflix. Yeah, it's a show that a very funny writer, Colin

Cullen Crawford created and it's like he cast a bunch of, there's a lot, it's like a murderer's row of like really funny people on the writing staff. It's like Sean O'Connor and my buddy Edgar Montpelier they're in the writing staff and a bunch of just like other hilarious people. But They cast a bunch of people, as far as I know, I don't know if this is like public information, but like they like cast a lot of people listening to Comedy Bang Bang, which is another podcast I do sometimes.

Oh, I mean, I think it's maybe this is a question than I had. Every podcaster's dream, you know, folks from TV hear that voice and they're going like, I need that for my show. Yeah. That's how you got the gig? It's, I mean, Colin told me to my face, we were listening to a lot of Comedy Bang Bang in the room and we wanted you in here. And I was like, okay, great. And so I come in, I play a paralegal.

It's a law office in Las Vegas. And so, you know, it's kooky. They got to deal with some crazy Vegas shit. Crazy Vegas, it's like a, what do you call it? It's just an on-ramp for just non-stop jokes, basically. The whole show is just jokes. And it's extremely funny. I play a paralegal named Kevin, who's in a few episodes.

and when I read like when I was reading it there basically I was like okay so like you basically want exactly like my zone sniveling little bitch gotcha okay how much twerp do you want on this take and it's like I'd never done anything like that before so it was actually go more beta did you say twerp yeah twerp I love that word I have not heard that word in forever it's exactly my zone and so I was just like you have to tell me if I'm doing a good job or not. Not because I need that, but I was like, I've never done this before. And I, on my way in, uh, Creece Summer was walking out.

I was like, okay, so you guys got actually like good people to be in this. Creece Summer's Elmira, right? Yeah, yeah, it's insane. Like, just like, and just a million voices too. And like, uh. Susie from Rugrats. Yeah, yeah. She's a legend.

She's a legend. And so it's like, different world. But yeah. And the cast is Adam Scott, Janelle James. Keith David, Stephen Reuben. Yeah, I mean, it's like, it's really crazy. And I'm really excited about, I'm just really excited to see it. And how in particular one of the episodes I did went because I was given like free reign to go like nuts.

Like they were like, just be as crazy as you can with every single one of these reads. And I was like, let's, I'll try. And you tell me like what if I'm doing it bad. And they were they were so nice and so cool. and I can't wait to It was also crazy because I've always wanted to be in a cartoon Right and like that is the thing that you're saying to Jordan Of like being on podcast so much

There's so much Availability of your voice Right like for people to hear And I've had people tell me to my face Who are showrunners of animated shows That were popular That were like oh I listen to your show I love your show you guys are so funny

And I'm standing there and being like Put me on your goddamn fucking show. What do you do it? I know if there's any TV writing rooms out there who are listening to this podcast, we have voices too. That's true. Yeah, we should just do more voices

and maybe that'll help us. I refuse to play along. This is what I sound like. If you want a character, it sounds like me, write it for me. Well, Matt, you'll be pleasantly surprised when you're watching Strip Law to, you'll be able to identify me right away

because I talk exactly like this. That's badass. That's even cooler. You didn't even change it up. You weren't doing some weird voice. Didn't? Couldn't do it. Sometimes you are exactly what they're looking for.

It's kind of crazy. What network can we watch that on? This is on the Netflix. The netted flicks. The network of flicks. The network of flicks. Nice. Well, yeah, strip law.

We're going to be checking it out. But now we got to do what we came here to do. Talk about Sonic the Freak. and Hedgehog. Funny little connection that I noticed. I don't know if anybody else got this. But this isn't a unique movie because Emily, I think you've talked on the show

about as a kid, you wrote a fan letter to Jim Carrey. And Matt. And Matt Leeb. Oh, boy, two Matt's on the show. This is going to be wild. Call him Greg. Oh, yeah. Call him Greg.

He's Greg now. I'm Greg now. You're Greg. You're Greg now? I was Matt first. You're Greg now. Emily wrote a letter to Jim Carrey. Matt, Leeb, as a kid, you told us you wrote a letter to Sonic.

That's right. I did. I wrote a letter to Sonic. Yeah. Well, I mean, I wrote a letter to Sonic and my parents sent it to his, what I assumed were his handlers, which was just a long Japanese name. Okay. So I still to this day don't remember the creator's name, but yes, I didn't.

I did write a letter to Sonic and he wrote back, and he said he was going to do all the TV shows and shit that I wanted him to do. Aw. It's really beautiful. And now he's my friend. So this is a great little, you know, great little meeting of your two interests. Yeah. And Jordan, you said that you were a member of the Pet Detective fan club, right?

Oh, I was. Yes. I think I was also a big Jim Carrey fan as a kid. And I think when you bought the Ace Ventura VHS, you could mail something in and then you would get an official pet detective, like, deputy card. Amazing. And I had it laminated.

I had my dad take my pet detective card to his office and get it laminated. So, yeah. That's so great. These movies, in particular the other next two in the Sonic franchise, if you like early 90s Jim Carrey, he like brings it back for these movies. And it's such a service to everybody in our specific age range. Right. Yeah.

Does he talk out of his butt? he's got to talk out of his butt Well there's a lot of really good little like jokes which I assume there's got to be comedians who did really killer punch up for this script I think probably 90 people wrote this movie

It's 100% all punch up guys Really good jokes though Because sometimes the punch up is like kind of Okay wop wompwop The kids are gonna get it But it was jokes that were so good That I think the kids and the parents Or the adults both got them at the same time

which is very rare. Yeah, I think this movie is funny. It is. Yeah, weird. It's, I like LOL in this. Quite a bit. Yes. There is like a, like, there's some jokes in this movie.

Because like there are like, like, you could tell sort of like the mental sort of like math you would have to do to like craft a joke that like you're saying is for the kids but also the adults get it. Some of the jokes go like a step too far like in the, this is for adults. kind of thing. Like, they're never, they're never nasty or crude, but they're always just like a beat too long or like, a reference to something.

Or like too real. Like they go too real for a second. I was just like, this is like just to jump way far ahead. This is like a joke about being an adult. Like, yeah, for sure.

Like Natasha Rothwell being tied up hours later and being like, put my Fitbit on. I was like, that's not for kids at all. That's barely for adults. It's so crazy. It's like, it's,

you have to call that back. Yeah. I do have a story about Ben Schwartz. Okay, sure. Who is the voice of Sonic. Voice of Sonic. I was romantically rejected by Ben Schwartz. Oh, wow.

I interned for Upright Citizens. This is, what a coincidence is romantically rejected by Tails. No, I, I interned, not the guy who does his voice. Yeah, I interned at Upright Citizens Brigade when I was like 19, 20 in New York. And he, like, was super, like, the super nice. guy who I was always sitting at the front desk, like answering phones or whatever, but I would watch movie trailers all the time. And he would be really nice to be like, hey, why are you doing? Where are you from? Like, be really sweet. And I showed him the movie trailer for Terry Gilliam's

Tideland that was about to come out. That is actually a really messed up movie. But the trailer was great. And he was like, wow, that's really cool. I'd love to see that movie. And I thought that meant he liked me. What time we go in. Yeah. I know. I know. And then I, I, asked him if he'd go to the movie with me. He was like, oh, I have a girlfriend. And I'm like, oh, like. And you're like, well, you'll never be Sonic. Never.

I said that. But now, you know, the three of us, Matt Lee, myself and Jordan Morris work for a good mythical morning on occasion. And he is on the mythical kitchen channel constantly. And so I'm like. Do you ever run it, go up to him and stuff? No, I'm too scared. Have you seen Tideland yet?

I know. I've like passed him in a hallway. I've been like, gh-gh-gh. Like, he's not going to remember me. I've been saving you a seat for years. It's literally half my lifetime ago that that happened. But one day,

he'll hear sometime that I'm talking about this. And he was very nice, very nice. I'm sure at some point you'll find a way to date the voice of Crash Bandicoot. Listen, anyone will do. Call me, call me, Crash. Anyone will do at this point. Spiro the Dragon. Listen, a lot of great video games.

Scots out there. So yeah, let's talk about the plot of Sonic. We start with Sonic. He's running through the streets of San Francisco being chased by a crazy spaceship. And then he's given voice over and he does the old, let's back it up. And then he goes, br-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-pup with his mouth. Very Jim Carrey. Very Jim Carrey.

We see the whole movie in reverse. And then we go to a little baby Sonic running around. Baby Sonic, very cute. You know, it's a trend these days. You got to have the baby version of something. and you know what, fucking good. Keep them babies coming.

We love babies. Yeah, and it should be noted, too. Obviously, this movie underwent online sort of backlash because of the design of Sonic to begin with was ugly and wrong. Right. It had big old teeth.

That was one of the things that people didn't like about it. Just the wrong way to do it. Huge swinging cock. I mean, it was really, yeah, it was insane. Bad and druby. It was weird. I thought people were kind of mad because it looked like he had muscles,

like he had kind of defined calves or something in the poster. I can't remember. No, he looked like, remember in the original, the OG Jumanji, when one of the kids is slowly turning into a monkey? Yes, I do. This is exactly it. Yeah, he looked like that, like hair is growing. Like, it was just very strange.

It's not uncanny Valley because obviously it's not a real hedgehog monkey or whatever, but it was like you looked at it you know like there's something wrong I don't trust it got it got it and it did feel like you get like his dick was like you're gonna see it you could tell he was gonna show you that guy's got a dick that guy's got a dick exactly but

the the correction was satisfying to the fans because they made him look more like how we like Sonic to look but then showing him as baby that's for everybody that's like hey we're sorry about that we love baby really cute yeah

So cute. And he's running around a little world that looks like the game's got loops and stuff. It's very cute. Sonic has an owl mom who I don't think is from the games. Long Claw. I know Sonic has a lot of weird side characters. Long Claw. Does anybody know who did?

I'm unfamiliar with Long Claw. I didn't know Long Claw at all. And I was like waiting for the people I knew as someone who used to read the Sonic Archie Comics. Right. So you're waiting for Sally Acorn, baby. Sally Ake. Yes. Yeah.

Or that fox who wanted a fucker. There was a whole love triangle thing happening between Sonic and some. He's like a fox or whatever. Anyways, but no, it was just some owl. I was like, who the fuck are you? I'm seeing that Longclaw is from the movies and a prequel comic book. Okay. But the movies, oh, so they invented it for this movie.

Longclaw is new. Long claw is new. Okay, Longclaw is an owl mom. She seems very nice. I like Longclaw. So Sonic, me too. We see her very briefly. I don't know if she pops up in the sequels,

but Longclaw is great. I would like her to be my mommy. Anyway. So Sonic, he's got powers. He can go fast. We know this. So some masked bad guys who we don't learn anything else about. Again, probably happens in a sequel.

They try and kidnap Sonic. Longclaw protects him and fucking Bambi's mom style. Get shot with an arrow. But she uses her. Her magic rings, a great little, that's the currency in the game, the rings,

so fun use of that, making it a plot device, uses her rings to send him to Earth. They open up like little portals because all movies must have portals these days. You just have to have it. And they have to look exactly the same. Yes.

They also look like Dr. Strange is making them. Yeah. So, yeah, he goes, so Earth, that's where Sonic goes. We cut to, A small town cop in Green Hill. Cute reference. Green Hill zone.

First name first level of the game. Oh. And this is played. Oh, yes. Sorry. Well, no,

that's interesting because James Marston lived in Nashville for a while. Oh, yeah. It was like this kind of thing where everybody would spot him because he's hot. And I never got to see him.

But Green Hills is like one of the only malls that are left in Nashville. Really? Green Hills Gallery. So I thought I was like, oh, it's like, James Marster's like, or whatever. Marston, I don't know,

like he made a reference to Nashville. Oh, funny. He's like, you have to name the town after my favorite mall. Name the town after the mall that I liked where I walked around and was hot. Literally, I walk.

So can you tell I've never played the video game? It's okay. It only flashes on the screen every time you play it and says exactly the title of the area. Oh, okay, cool. So, yes, as the human star of this movie, sturdy old, reliable James Marsden,

a funny, boring guy who's kind of leaning into it in a fun way. He's a cop there, he's got a dumb buddy, Adam Pally, who's like another cop, who he's like a dumber guy. Those are the jokes that I didn't like. Yeah, Adam Palley was doing too much. Too much. Well, the jokes were just not like, like he was having to play someone who was too,

dumb for the guy that we know is capable of like it was too anti-cop for me yeah he needed to be played by someone super goofy look at leave leaves a bleaves a blue life man or die i'm a big i'm a big blue life yeah yeah well speaking specifically of sonic of course that's right sure yes that's the number one blue life yes oh shit i have seen a sticker like a blue lives matter sticker where the blue line with Sonic's hog? Like, what's the political statement there? I think it's pretty clear, Jordan. Oh, yes, that's, that's right, of course.

I also know what it is, and I don't think I'll say it because I know what it is. I'm not confused. Anyway, so. A little gold cock ring on there. Oh, yeah, sure. Yeah. So, Sonic can stay hard when he's turning off his body cam. What is this?

Oh, I get so hard when I turn off my body cam. Anyway, so Sonic, life, hey, life in Green Hill, it's slow. It's slow, it's quiet, but not Sonic. He's a fast. He's running around. There's a very cute thing where he, like, grabs a turtle and runs around with it

because the turtle wants to experience going fast. That was cute. Very cute. He goes into his, His hideout, which is just full of like little kid stuff. Emily, as the bedroom correspondent, how did you feel about Sonic's room? Love it, love it, love it, love it. Very cute.

I like all the little, the little like beanbag and all that stuff. Very cute. He likes things. Yeah, I like, I think one of the best choices they make in this movie is like making Sonic a kid. I think in some like Sonic TV shows, he's kind of like a teenager. And he's like, but he's like a little kid in this. I think that's cute. And I like that he collects toys and comics and, you know, decorates his room.

Can I ask a question? How do you guys, because when I was watching this as a non-game gamer, I felt like it was a little ET coded, like a little bit. Sure. So I was kind of like, why is there a grown man that's his friend? I kind of wanted it to be another kid. But I guess doing stuff with like green screen, like, acting with a character that you can't see. That's kind of hard and maybe you need an adult to really sell it.

But I felt like he needed a kid or a group of kids to be rolling with personally. It's a good question, yeah. I don't know. I think it might be that because like Sonic, even though he is a kid, he gets into, he gets into a lot of trouble like pretty easily and pretty quickly. Like it's not uncommon for him to be. be speaking with several leaders of different branches of government.

Right. So he sort of like needs an adult. Like I think to sort of like make sure, like so that we at least know he's okay. Kind of. If it's two kids like going and doing all this stuff where it's it's they're cooked. They just need an adult.

Got it. With kids then you can't get into a bar fight. Yeah. You need the bar fight. The bar fight is so. But what if you stack on top of each other and put a trench coat on? You can definitely do it.

Yeah. That's how kids get. It's a classic way for. kids to get into a bar. You're getting ahead of Sonic 2. Emily, you just wrote Sonic 2. Shit. Save them some beats, okay?

Okay. All right, all right. So Sonic, he's, you know, he's like always hiding from humans. There's like one crazy guy in town who, you know, thinks he sees him everywhere, kind of their conspiracy nut. There's a very cute little scene where the conspiracy guy goes. I know you're out there and Sonic goes, no, I'm not. Great joke.

Just fun. Just fun. But he's like obsessed with James Marsden and his girlfriend. He like is part of their family from like the outside and he like watches TV with them. Very cute. And in James Marsden's life, he got a job not in his small town but in the big city of San Francisco. And his girlfriend lets him know that she's supportive. I think they're married in this.

Are they married? Oh, yeah. I just remember at the end they called her like Mrs. Oh, yeah. Wadikowski or. or like, I don't know. Mrs. Polish name. Right.

Which is also so funny to me because it's like, somebody thinks that's a joke. Kind of like, let's give him a complicated last name. A funny name. I love like injecting a little bit of anti-Polish humor into a sonic movie. What are you called this dumb cop? In the sleepwalk with me,

adaptation of Mike Barbiglia's show, his movie. Mike Barbiglia, That's a tricky last name, but not the craziest last name. In the movie, his last name is Patamiglio. And I'm like, just keep your name. Just make it a little crazier. So his wife or fiancé or girlfriend shows him that she's... How about lover?

Can we just land on lover? His lover, his lover. Okay. Lover. Yuck. You need a... I'm growing a ponytail when I'm saying it. It's happening.

Smell like ramen noodles. It's not where you think. It's a shirt's tooth necklace. Yeah, I'm getting a pew bony tail. Forcing a drum circle on someone. Oh, no. So, yeah, so she shows him, she's being supportive by showing her computer screen with Zillow on it. She's like, I'm looking for apartments on Zillow!

And just zooms in. I'm like, what? It is. There's some. shameless product placement in this movie. It is like so, this is so a, like, kid movie from our generation in so many ways. And the, like, weird product placement is totally part of that. Yeah, I think it's, like, it's charming, but it is, like, very sweaty.

I do think it's funny, though. The Olive Garden. Oh, yeah, the Olive Garden. But, like, the idea that a Sonic, I guess in 2020, it was a little, you know, when this was released, that was, it was 2020. But the idea that a Sonic movie. It like needs help with financing in any way. Right.

We need products in this thing or else we're never going to get this thing greenlit. How are we going to make the Sonic movie? I know. Which video game like company is Sonic? Sega. Sega. Hell yeah. Yeah.

Sega. Is Sega still around? Sega is a publishing company only. They don't make hardware or anything like that, but they do release video games still. Okay. Emily famously still has her Sega game gear. Yeah, and it's broken because the coils for the six batteries it requires are rusted. And I've gone to a couple places in Little Tokyo to ask if they can fix it.

And they're like, it's going to be cheaper to just buy a new one. And I'm like, I don't want a new one. I want this one. I want this one. We should put this one to the Hoover Dam. That's so great. That's like, yeah, my co-host, Heather Campbell, big Sega kid, has a game. game gear and whenever she brings it up, I make fun of her to her face because it is crazy

that it takes six batteries. Oh, yeah. And it was so powerful and so chunky that it would get hot and the battery would drain, the batteries would drain like instantly, basically. My parents bought the chargeable batteries with the charger just for my Sega game gear. And I had so many, they were like bright yellow was the little like chargeable ones. But back then I would go to like summer, sleep. camp in the woods, like in the smoky mountains.

And I had a hard time going to sleep, and it was like the first one that had a light. So like the Game Boy was dark. There was no light. So the game gear, you could play it at night. And I love that thing. It came with the Lion King game, which I didn't know was universally hard to everyone. Oh, yeah. Because I just played the first three levels.

That's all I did. I just play it over and over. and I went, I'm just bad at video games, and that's okay. I'm just going to play these levels over and over. And then little did I know, I think I was doing okay. You probably were good at it, yeah. Maybe I was, and it turned me off from gaming, like, forever. That sounds like such a more comfortable existence than the one that I have,

where I then have to be like, I have to be good at this game, and I have to finish it, and this is now my entire life. Yeah, no, and I have an X-Men game, too, that was really fun. And I just had fun with that. but I am determined to get this fixed and everyone I try to talk to about it is like, I don't know, it might cost you a lot of money and I'm like, what, 500 bucks?

I'll figure it out, dog, let's try. Give me a number. Maximumfund.org slash join. Help Emily get her game care fixed. Honestly, a call to action like that, it's going to happen. People are going to do it. They want this for you.

People have offered for me to send it to them so they can fix it. And I'm open to that. if anyone offers. All right. If you're out there and you got a game gear repair company, Emily,

Emily's looking. Yeah. Okay. So Sonic, he's around. He does this little baseball game against himself that's very innovative and very funny, but he gets sad

because he realizes he's the only kid on the field and he does like a kind of furious run that creates a big shock wave putting out all the power in the town. So that's how the FBI gets on to him and they say they have the perfect guy to find Sonic. He's

a little crazy. It's Jim Carrey as Dr. Ivo Robotnik. We see him. He does not look like the game character yet. Has all his hair. He still has a weird mustache but not quite as weird as the game character. And he's fucking going

for it. Like he is it's 1994 and he's acting and just like and everybody in the scene with him is normal, which is good. Yeah. Like everyone is being very straight and just letting Jim Carrey be insane. He's so fucking funny in this. He's very funny, but I kind of think he's phoning it in personally.

Okay, you think he can go bigger. Well, no, it's not that. I think he could have made some different choices than it felt like he was doing his classic like, all righty then kind of. I talk really fast and I do like this kind of voice that sounds like, It sounds like the mask. It sounds a little like Ace Vitura. It sounds like, this is my comedy voice as Jane, like as Jim Carrey.

Some of it, yeah. Some of it feels first and only take to me, kind of like where it's like, we have this guy for two weeks. Yeah. Yeah. And then the long tale of these movies is that it makes a bunch of money at the box office. The sequel is like pretty much guaranteed. After the second one, he's like, this is. is my last movie. I'm done with acting. I remember this. I'm done with acting. And then

Sonic 3 is Greenlit and everyone's like the big question is Jim Carrey coming back? Like we're getting Jim Carrey back and we get him back and he plays two characters in the movie. They probably offered him double the money. Well he did an interview where they were like, oh, you said that this was your last movie and he goes, I don't know. I needed the money. And I loved that. I thought it was like he didn't do like kind of a, you know, politician answer at all. He was like, nah.

That's what I'm doing. My paintings aren't selling. Yeah, no shit. Dude, I watched that comedians and cars getting coffee and you went to his studio and it's so enormous. And I'm like, wow. Every episode of that show is absolutely dreadful and annoying to be. What are you talking about it?

It's a great show. Except for Carl Reiner. Carl's a sweet. Yes. Carl Reiner one is really sweet. When comedians are in cars, like that's already funny. The one that really just rings in my mind is the Ellen one, who's a famous piece of shit anyway. Yeah.

At one point she goes, Jerry, you've never been on Safari. You've got to go. And I'm just like, you should both crash the car that you're driving. Well, my favorite is. Jerry, you've never shot an Ellen. You must. You've never hunted big game. Portia loves.

You've never gargled elephant tusk marrow directly from. You've never been to Little St. James. Oh, you must go. My favorite is when they go, like he gets Ricky Jervais, another kind of piece of shit. And he scares the shit out of him in this little scary, like, race car thing. And he's like, he becomes a little bitch in that car. Yeah. It's so funny.

He entered the car that way. Yeah, he was just scared of being in this little scary, like, fast car. My seats on the wrong side. If Jerry was a true comedian, he would have said something like, do you believe in God now? As he's thawaring it straight into a water. Yeah, that was pretty good. So, yeah, so Carrie, he's after Sonic. He's a, he's a crazy guy.

I think he's the tallest person in the movie. Tallest guy. Oh. We have a sting. Sorry, we have a lot of things. I have a lot of things. I have a search for him. What do you think?

What do you think he's carrying around? He seems like a big guy anyway. He's probably at least six one, right? Gotta be. Got to be. Robotic, you think he's six foot one? Probably. Let's, let's, let's, I feel like we can look this up.

Yeah. Let's just live in the not knowing. He always seems like he's, like, one of those guys who has, like, a posture problem where the, the neck kind of comes out and the head kind of comes out, where it's like he's trying to be, shorter in order to like compensate for something. I don't know. I looked it up, I don't have to share it. I'll just say he's a big guy.

He's a big guy. Wait, no, I want to know. Oh shit. He's 6-2. He's 6-2. Oh, okay. Big guy. He ain't Matt Lee big.

He's no, well, he's no Matt Lee. He ain't 6-6. 6-6, Matt leave? I'm a big guy. I'm a big guy. But I will say the posture is, I did not believe it was 6th. We got to work. You got to work on the posture.

You got stand up straight. What about sit up straight? Oh, great. Now he's an end, this guy. Oh, my God, he's enormous. Tree! Where did those? I have no tree.

How long have those hobbits been on your shoulder? Stride to Mordor. According to the book, Days and Days and Days. That's right. So Jim Carrey, he's after Sonic. And through a very weird series of contrivances, Sonic's rings end up in San Francisco on the top of like the Coit Tower or something, right?

No, it's a Transamerica building. Transamerica building, I'm sorry. Wrong building. So they have to like road trip across America. I guess Green Hill is in Montana, they say at one point. So they're driving to San Francisco. Why can't Sonic just run there? I don't know because then there would be a movie, I guess.

Yeah, there's just some things you've got to just kind of be like, this is for kids. Yeah. I guess he like wants to connect. with Marsden. Yeah, that's what I think it is. Yeah. I will say, I think Marsden has a thankless job in this movie to be like a human face who is like

connecting with this completely computer generated character. And I think he does a really good job at it. He's such a watchable movie star. He's fucking in it. Yeah. So much of this, like there's some scenes where he has to like play off carry. And I think they're a pretty good cause James Marsden's thing is how straight-laced he. He's like boring.

And so Carrie being crazy is fun. But there's so much of just him and Sonic in the car where he just has to talk to nothing in the car. Yes. You buy the arc of the movie, which is then like, you know, falling in love with this kid as like part of your family type of thing. He really sells it. And I think he, I mean, I just think he's so good. Like he's great actor. You get less of him in the other ones, unfortunately.

But he's a lot in this one. So yeah. So they go to an old, an old biker bar, and they have a bunch of fun adventures in there. This is such a fun little scene. Sonic, like, has a bucket list and wants to do a bunch of stuff, like slam dunk, so they play Papa Shot. And he wants to get in a bar fight.

And they have this, like, big slow motion bar fight that's really funny and has a lot of great little gags in it. We talked about this when we talked about the Warriors. Like, when you need to have a bunch of tough guys, but the only people you have access to are actors. The guys in this bar seem like an improv group. The guys in this bar are all doing podcasts. Well, there's one big guy, the guy he tries to break a bottle over his head.

He does look like he belongs in that bar. Okay, you bought that guy. That one guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like that the bottle wouldn't break. That's just funny. That was a good gag. A good gag.

So, yeah, they have that little adventure. in a little motel room later, Sonic Farts. And he says, because he ate a chili dog. He said it. That was a reference. We were all waiting for Sonic to say chili dog. Why? It's canonical to be other Sonic TV show.

It's canonical. Other Sonic TV show, the non-serious one. It was like the comedic one with Jaliel White. It was on UPN. There were two TV shows. One was sort of like anime serious style. It was like, you know, more of the characters from the Archie universe. And then one was like this cool guy who ate chili dogs.

And I remember being confused as a kid. Like, why does he love... It's very confusing. Why they add that. But then I was like, well, I guess I love chili dogs too if Sonic likes it. Yeah, it doesn't... For me, that is one of those pieces of canon that requires no explanation. I am just like, that's fine to me that he likes them.

Sure. It's a good fart joke. It's a good fart joke. The sweatshirt that I have on is from the Sonic the Hedgehog Speed Cafe. My co-host Heather Campbell got this for me. It's from a restaurant in Chicago that apparently smells like diapers. That's a very specific smell. They have hot dogs and chili dogs and all the sonic music you could stand to hear while being in a restaurant.

Hell yeah. I want to hear the drowning noise while I'm drinking. That's when they're choking. That's when they're closing. and you're just eating really fast. So yeah, this bar scene is great. They have a little, him and Marston have a little dust up in the car

because Marston says he's moving and Sonic doesn't want him to leave. Green Hill. Robotnik tries like a bunch of stuff to get them. He has a bunch of robots in tech. It looks so, it looks cool. It's a cool looking movie. It looks cool.

They did a good job with that because Jim Carrey doesn't look like Robotic but you want him to have all his toys. And so I feel like they did a sort of like good compromise for at least this first movie to be like, hey, we know he doesn't look like this. We couldn't get the number up high enough to get him to shave his head for this.

Or put it on a ball or do like hours in mid-off. I thought his head was bald. I thought, I don't know. At the end, he has that little end scene where he's like on the mushroom planet. Yeah. And then he shaves his head anyway. Oh, okay.

And that's him getting grass. gradually like the game character. So he's like... It's kind of like that Street Fighter movie we watched. We're by the end, they're all in their costumes from the game, but they don't... Anyway, that's... Got it, got it, got it. They're doing that.

He becomes crazier, more mad-sciencey as the movies go on. In this, he's sort of like a loose canon, sort of like general, I guess. Yeah. So, yeah, he... At some point, Sonic gets knocked out, and Marston takes him to his fiancé slash wife slash lovers. house. Stop. Her like sister lover.

No. Into the sauna with me, lover. Oh, God. Anyway, I give great back roots. I hope that character wears a condom every time. Just all day, actually.

I always have on a condom. It's lamb skin for sure. I slaughter the lambs myself. Oh, God! I live off the land. Why is this turning into Hannibal Lecter? That is crazy. Lamb skin condoms are truly insane.

Crazy. They're great. All right. Some people are allergic to latex. Some people are allergic to latex. I know. That's why I was like, give it a go. Some lambs.

So, yeah, as Matt mentioned, they, like, tie up her sister who doesn't like Marsden for some reason. There's like a very cute little girl there who, love Sonic and she gives him his signature red shoes because in origin movies you have to show someone getting an article of clothing we have to see them get an article of clothing yes I do think that this is the my main if if there is a criticism of this movie my main criticism of it is which there isn't by the way is that this movie does has to has the the burden of being an origin movie

and having a lot of table setting to do for the uninitiated, right? Sure. So in subsequent films, they can just go. And I think that is to the benefit of those other movies, I think. Yeah, so they definitely, yeah, there's a lot of kind of origin-y stuff.

And, you know, but it's still a pretty lean and mean 90 minutes. Yes. It's about a child's attention span. Yeah, so they eventually make it San Francisco. go, Robotnik's there. There's a big old, big old chase. They start to throw the rings, which create portals, and they go to, like, the desert. It's, it's fun. Yeah, the, like, chase, the, like, action shit's in this really inventive and cute. They do a great job. They do a thing where they go to, they, like, throw a ring and they fly through Paris, and they, like, interrupt a mime.

Why is there so much anti-mime humor? It's been, like, since we were a kid, people were making in front of mimes. What to, why? Do people hate mimes? That's a great question. There's so much anti-mime humor. Mime meme. Yeah.

I think because it's kind of fun to mess with them, kind of like, you know, the beef eaters or whatever, like the soldiers. Oh, yeah, sure. Yeah. In front of the, like Buckingham Palace, you just get yelling at them. Yeah. They're just artists, you know. They're just people trying to make a buck, make a living.

Artists that no one wants to watch. Like, I think that's what it is. I think it has. has something to do with some sort of like latent anti-French bigotry that Americans have, but where we just look at a, we look at a Frenchman doing art and we're just like, ugh. Okay, here's the street performer power ranking just real quick. Okay.

I think number one, we do have magicians. I love magicians. That's just full stop. Always. Number two. You never had to date one. Well, yeah, I could never. Why would you ever date a magician?

Imagine dating a mime. You get trapped in their little box. Second would be the statue guys The guys that paint themselves To think the statue Just as an endurance test I think that's just

You know It's insane It's great Then well you know what I'm going to put break dancers Above statue guys Break dancers Honestly break dancers

Honestly break dancers number one Magicians number two Statues number three What about poets? Poets I think unfortunately Would have to be Dead Nix

Dead last last for me personally Can you imagine? When's the last time you saw a street poet? I think there was one when I used to Oh by the way where do you rank One Man acoustic Bone Thugs and Harmony

Cover Band? We have to start over. Number one. We should do number one. Everything else is last. When back when I was the world's only one man, both thugs and harmony acoustic cover band, there was a street poet, but he had a

typewriter, and he'd be like, I'll type a poem for you. I've seen those guys. Yeah, me too. I feel like those guys are dead last. Listen, we've ranked the street performers. We're almost at the end of Sonic the Hedgehog. We're going to come back later and finish talking about the movie.

It's free with ads. We are talking to Matt Apodaca from Get Played about Sonic the Hedgehog. Okay, so it's the final battle. Sonic is battle in robotnik. It's getting crazy and Sonic does a like crazy

power up move and smashes robotic spaceship and it seems like Sonic died for a second but he didn't. Yeah, that was crazy. Like they spent way too long being like Sonic's dead. Like they had

Marsden. Sorry kids. Marsden was speaking about him in the past tense like he was my friend and I'm like Yeah. Guys, what are we doing here? He's alive. They spent more time on it than they did Chewbacca in the Rise of Skywalker.

Oh, wow. Exactly. Yeah. It was very strange. There was a messed up, like, line that Jim Carrey did, where he was like, get some ice, you're going to want to preserve the body. And I was like, Jesus. That's what I'm talking about. Carrie's pretty evil in this.

That evil shit, he says, is pretty like bad. But I also was like, kids are going to be like, oh, you got to put them on ice? Like, what do you? Like, Yeah, you got to explain cremation to these kids. That's the whole thing that when I was saying earlier

was that like it just kind of goes one step too far. Like for the adult jokes for the adults are supposed to be like they're not going to understand that. Instead, some of them are like, Jesus Christ. They're going to have to explain like what an organ donor is to their kids.

Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, but Sonics fine. He was fine. the whole time and there's a lot of post movie hanging out after the story's over Sonic goes to live with Marsden

and I think they're married now at this point. Oh, okay. But I don't know if they were married. He could have been a ring bearer at the wedding. Can you imagine the fiasco that would be? I will say if you guys want an on-screen wedding, you have to watch

Sonic 2. Okay. Not with this couple, another couple. And it is, I will say, Charitably, entirely unnecessary to the movie. I love it. Is there a ring bearer joke in it? There is not. But it is a complete...

How did they miss that? It's an entire B plot with just human characters. It is not for anybody, and it is my favorite part of the movie. It is so crazy. You're kind of selling me on watching all of Sonic. Yeah. I think Sonic 2 is the weakest. Sonic 3 is a triumph to me.

I think it's so good. Yeah. So Sonic lives in them. They, like, transpose his little. room into their attic, which I thought was very cute. I love the little room. Yeah, when he decides not to, Marsden decides not to go to San Francisco, but stay in Green Hill, where his little quiet family is.

And then we get a kind of, so there's a, there's a something after the title, which is Robotnik. At some point, Sonic knocks him into one of the portals, and he's on like a mushroom world. And we see him like kind of going feral and like shaving his head and his mustache is crazy. so he's looking a little more like the character from the game and he's claiming that he's going to get back and get revenge on Sonic. And then we have credits,

and if you stayed after the credits, you see a little scene of Tales, the two-tailed fox coming through, yep, you guessed it, a portal. Hell yeah. He's going to look for Sonic. Voiced by Colleen O'Shaughnessy, who has always been the voice of tales,

which I think is so cool. Yeah, that's a really neat move that they did of like casting the voice actor instead of just like, you know, giving it to one of the stranger things kids. Yeah, yeah. So, like, bring a carpenter as an afternoon. Yeah.

So yeah, that's fun. And that's, uh, and then everybody in the theater fucking probably went insane. And then everyone came. Yeah. And everyone came. Tales. Oh,

I will say the experience of seeing these movies in the theaters, I usually go by myself. And it's me and a bunch of dads and their children. Sure. And it is, it's always a lot of fun. And the second one,

the post credit tease for the next movie, I remember the kids in front of me going, oh, no, as I said out loud, oh, no, with them. Locked in. Couldn't believe it.

No. Yeah. I'm excited. I mean, so we don't know the post credit for the other one. I guess we have to watch Sonic 2. You got to watch Sonic 2.

Sonic 3. So good. Okay. Well, that is the, plot of Sonic the Hedgehog. We're going to rank it, but first, we got to do the Hunk Watch. It's Hunk Watch.

Matt, for you, we all go around the horn and name a hunk from the movie. A hunk can be anyone or anything. It's something you found. Totally captivating. Man, woman, person of any gender. It can be an object. It can be a monster. It can be a blob.

Maybe not a child hedgehog, though. You know what? Emily, wonderful point. Thank you. Maybe not a child hedgehog. But yeah, do you have any feelings about the hunks of this movie? I mean, you know, Jim Carrey looking kind of good for his age in these movies. He looks great.

But I feel like the top hunk of the movie is Marsden by like a mile. Yeah. Like, we've seen him, right? Yeah. I mean, Emily saw him walking around at the mall, apparently. No, I did it. And I feel like I missed out on something. Everybody else has seen him and Nicole Kidman walking around in Nashville and I've never seen it.

He also is like there's this line right of like hunk into comedy type of thing and like a lot of hunks think they can do it. And he like legitimately can. Not all the hunks can. Yeah, not all the hunks can pull it off. He's got it. He's so funny in jury duty. Jury duty. He kills it so hard.

Oh my God. I forgot about jury duty. He's so good in that that it made me rethink. Marsden. I was like maybe Marsden is the greatest comedic actor of our time. We have to reconsider Marsden. I think he's I think he's just like, I don't know, he's a gem and everything

he pops up in and he, like I said earlier, has a sort of thankless role in this, and I think he crushes it. He's great, and you know, that's something for the parents to look at. The kids are looking at Sonic. The parents are looking at Mr. Marsden. Emily, any thoughts on the hunks of the film?

It's going to be Jim Carrey for me. I want him to slap me with one of his gloves and spit in my mouth. And I, I just... And then, like, shoot off all my clothes. Like, I want, like... No, my clothes! I love Jim Carrey so much, and I actually,

I really like the look of this character, and I like how just frustrated and angsty he is. Like, it's giving me everything. I think James Marsden, he's, of course, classically handsome, but for some reason, that's more of, like, admiring a statue to me or work of art than being a hunk, like if that makes sense. So it's the Dr. Robotnik for me, dog.

Matt, any thoughts on hunks? Oh, it's a really good question. I mean, I'm going with Sonic because, you know, Sonic is the OG hunk. I think we all grew up, you know, wanting to be him, wanted to be with him. Yeah, yes. Wanting to be in him, want to be around in. Jesus! And wanted him to be in us with his little quills.

So, yeah, I'm going to go with my boy, Sonic. Hey, I'm going to give it up to Longclaw, a total milk, am I right? Who? Longclaw. That's the, so motherly. Anyway, I've got a deal, I guess. So we've talked about the hunks, but we're going to rank the movie when we come back. We're back.

It's free with ads. We're here with Matt Appa Daca talking about Sonic the Hedgehog. We're going to rank the movie on a scale of one to ten super loud commercials. But first, we're going to let you know to go to maximum fun.org slash join. That's how the show keeps coming. It's how all the shows on the network keep coming. People joining up, thrown down a couple of bucks. You get a bunch of bonus episodes and maybe eventually Emily will be able to fix her Sega game.

And finally beat the Lion King game. Yay. And she'll get to hear a little 8-bit version of her. Kakuna matata coming out of a... I thought you said Hock Tua Matata. I heard Hock Tua Matata. That's pretty good. Can we still do that parody?

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Maximumfund.org slash join. Okay. We're going to rank Sonic on a scale of 1 to 10 super loud commercials. Maybe we'll do this since Emily,

you have the least Sonic experience. We'll start with you and then go around to Matt who I have been told owns this movie on 4K Blu-ray. Emily, what'd you think?

One to 10 on Sonic. Oh boy. I don't think you're going to like what I have to say. No, no, no. Be honest. Okay. As someone who doesn't know the references and like, you know, I didn't like love all of it.

Like I love bits and pieces of it. I enjoyed seeing Jim Carrey again. I enjoyed the punch up like joke writing. But for me, it felt like a lot of references to better movies. And like the slow-mo that they would do was not really like where it was slow-mo. where he's moving around and changing things so that he can, it's like him moving so fast that they slow down the film.

It felt like X-Men and like, you know, which I feel like did it better. And it just felt kind of boring and cheap. I'm sorry. But the jokes were cool. I don't know this show, so I don't care about this child hedgehog that is kind of annoying.

and like makes everything hard for this person. So I don't know. I'm going to give it a five guys. That's totally fair. You're allowed. No one's mad. You're an adult. Thanks.

Thank you. I feel like it's obviously meant for children and people who played the game. I mean, the scale's out of five, right? Out of ten. Oh, I was kidding. I was like, that's a huge score. No, no, no. No, of course.

I feel like for somebody who's not initiated, who's not even maybe interested, interested, that's a pretty good score for a real. That's still not bad. Good. All right. I don't want to watch it ever again. But I still think it's a five. Yeah. Matt Lee, what'd you think? Oh, well, I believe the exact opposite of Emily. I believe it's one of the best movies ever made.

Okay. I swear to God if you give it a tippy 10. No, I'm not giving it a tippy 10. No, I, listen, I have some issues with it. I think my biggest issue was that because I was the only comic book I read growing up was Archie Comics and Archie Comics is Sonic. So for me I was a little bit hoping for the sort of

rest of the characters. So you're a disappointed Jughead wasn't in the movie? I wish Jughead had been there. No, I was disappointed that. Oh, is that the Chili Dog thing? No, he likes hamburgers. John. Yeah. Okay.

Sorry. Emily, you're trying to make sense of the chili dog thing. It makes no sense. I just want to be included. There's no. No, I, you know,

I wanted it to be a different thing. And it was, the thing it was was fine. I thought it was surprisingly funny. And it didn't make me bored for at least 45 minutes. So I will give this a six. Okay.

Matt, I'm right there with you. I'm going to say 6-2. I had a lot of fun watching it. I think it is, you know, it is, it is like, I think this would be so fun to watch with a kid. My, like, nephew is becoming, like, aware of pop culture. Like, he knows what Spider-Man is now. We're talking about maybe taking him to see the new Toy Story movie in theaters. And I'm like, he would like this.

I think this would be very fun to watch with him. And, yeah, and I like how it reminded me of, like, the kids' movies of our youth, which were like four kids, you know? I think a lot of like kids movies now, while they are better movies are like, weirdly not for kids, you know? I think I've talked a little bit about this, but sometimes it seems like those Pixar movies are like about the lives of sad animators and not, you know,

something a kid can relate to. So I do think the fact that this is a lot of silly jokes, a lot of puns is like it knows its audience really well. Yeah, and I did see, I did like seeing, Jim Carrey, Jim Carrey around again, you know, big character movies, something we don't get a lot of anymore, and yeah, fun to see him doing his thing. So yeah, Matt Apodaca, you're the expert, you've seen all of these, you own it on physical media. What do you think? One to ten. I do think that's a good point that kids movies are often made by people who are experiencing

reparenting in their personal lives. But this movie, yeah, is for, it's four. It's four kids and I don't think that means it's bad. I, you know, I don't think it's great. It has, it has flaws for sure. I do think it is fun. I think Sonic as a character, probably on the Mount Rushmore of like cool 90s characters. Oh yeah, he's got a toad. Sonic, Bart, pissing Calvin. Yeah. These are the icons of our day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's certainly one more. Everyone that Matthew Lillard played. Yeah, and just, and the actor, Matt Lillard, is on there as well. But Sonic, you know, I have no nostalgia for the video games.

I only started playing them really as an exercise on our podcast. And I like everything about him, except his games. I do think he's too fast. He's too fast. It's a big problem for me. He's too fast, actually. His main thing. But the movie, I think Six is.

Six is good because you can only go up from there. And I think that we do get pretty close to perfect with Sonic 3. These movies only get, well, the second one is worse than one. So they get worse than better. Yes. They sort of start to crest in a sort of loop as it were at Sonic. Oh, interesting, much like Sonic would run around. All right.

Well, yeah, that's our review of Sonic the Hedgehog. to do some plugs. Matt O'Badocca, thank you for joining us. You want to tell us a little about Get Played and anything else you want to chat about? Yeah, Get Played is a video game podcast that I host with Nick Weiger and Heather Ann Campbell and they're two of the funniest people on planet Earth, I would say.

I think they're both so funny and so knowledgeable about video games. So if that's interesting to you, check that out. We also have a Patreon, patreon.com slash Get Played. where we do all sorts of crazy stuff back there. We just kind of retooled what we're doing, and we've been saying this a lot. I've been saying this and say, and I've been saying this and have been saying that we're saying it,

but the Patreon can be anything. So, you know, we did, like, for example, we'll do, we did an episode about a bad Sonic game with Jordan called Sonic Unleashed. We did an episode where we built an arcade, like our dream arcade and sort of populated it with the exact things we would want in it. And we did a review of Avatar, Fire, and Ash.

Like, the Patreon can be anything now. So it's all, it's whatever we want. It's more get played, and that's a good thing. That's right. And you can check out Strip Law on Netflix on February 20th. And all the episodes will be there. And you can check them out. And you don't have to tune in just for me.

There's probably an actor or a comedian that you really like in the show. And they're hilarious in it too. So check it out. I had a blast doing it. I think it's going to be really great. All right. Emily, you got anything? No, sir. Okay, Matt Lieb.

Yeah, but I'm not telling you. Whoa. Matt with the secret plug. Spicy. Slide into his DMs. Well, I will be hitting the road, signing copies of Predator Bloodshed, the new Marvel Comics mini series.

225, I'm going to be at Collector's Paradise in North Hollywood, 5 to 8. On 226, I will be hosting a Predator double feature at the Frida Cinema in Santa Ana. That starts at 7 p.m. 228, I will be at Books with Pictures in Eugene, Oregon, noon to three. And on 228 and 3-1, I will be joining the Doe Boys on stage in Portland and Seattle, respectively. Come on out, the Do Boys, a very funny food podcast. You can get those tickets at birdfuck.com.

Okay. I'm at Abadaka. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. Okay, tune in next week when our movie will be the 1985 TV movie adaptation of Death of a Salesman. Maximum Fun. A worker-owned network. Of artists-owned shows.

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