Sonic★the★Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie)

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Synonyms: Sonic OVA

Japanese: ソニック★ザ★ヘッジホッグ

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Type: OVA

Episodes: 2

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 26, 1996

Producers: Sega

Licensors: ADV Films

Studios: Pierrot

Source: Game

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Duration: 30 min. per ep.

Rating: PG - Children

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Score: 6.89¹ (scored by 12,827 users)

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Ranked: #4876²

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Popularity: #4886

Members: 19,854

Favorites: 234

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Living in the wreckage of a rusty old airplane on the shimmering shores of South Island, Sonic the Hedgehog and his buddy Miles "Tails" Prower have not a care in the world. The president of Planet Freedom urgently summons the duo, but trouble is afoot when Sonic and Tails instead find the good-for-nothing Dr. Eggman lounging about his office as if it were his own.

While Sonic would prefer to scramble Eggman and move on with his day, the doctor claims not to have new plans for world domination. He instead pleads for help: the generator powering Eggman's home city of Eggmanland has been hijacked and overloaded by a mysterious menace. If left unattended, it will explode, taking both Eggman and Sonic's homes with it.

Reluctantly agreeing on the off chance Eggman is telling the truth, Sonic and Tails set out into the abyss—where an unknown yet uncannily familiar enemy lies in wait.

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Sonic★the★Hedgehog was released in English as Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie on VHS and DVD by ADV Films on September 7, 1999. The company later re-released the film on DVD on January 13, 2004, including both the Japanese and English dub.

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Alternative setting:

Sonic X, Sonic: Night of the WereHog

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Characters & Voice Actors

Sonic the Hedgehog

Main

Kikuchi, Masami
Japanese

The Echidna, Knuckles

Main

Matsumoto, Yasunori
Japanese

Robotnik, Ivo

Main

Takiguchi, Junpei
Japanese

Metal Sonic

Main

Kikuchi, Masami
Japanese

Prower, Miles

Supporting

Shiina, Hekiru
Japanese

Sara

Supporting

Kanai, Mika
Japanese

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Fujiyama, Fusanobu

Sound Director

Naka, Yuuji

Production Assistant

Campbell, Charles

ADR Director, Recording Engineer

Akashi, Seiko

Art Director

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"Look-a-like" by Riu Konaka (こなかりゆ)

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Apr 23, 2023

AzafuseKingTora

Recommended

Most people are familiar with Sonic, he's one of the most Iconic videogame characters of all time and like everything with 30 years of history and counting, there's bound to be strange things and I'm not talking about the beaten to death, arguably overhated 2000's games. In this case I'm talking about this fun little OVA that's product of it's time.

The story is very simple but that's all it needed to be, Eggman wants Sonic's data, gets Sonic's data and Sonic fights Metal Sonic. While I'm a fan of the deeper, darker stories from the comics and the Adventure era, this was meant to ...

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Feb 21, 2021

Ciaran_Zagami

Mixed Feelings

Honestly if your seriously considering watching this movie you should already know what it is

It's not good, everything here is pretty bad. The animation is rough and the voice acting is pretty awful. The story is your typical sonic story, lots of weird side characters a strange romance with a female human. The destroyed city near the end of the first half is pretty awesome looking though

But it all manages to blend together into a really enjoyable mess that is best enjoyed with friends.

If you like so bad its good movies this is out and out perfect.

About the only thing I can praise unironically is ...

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Jan 2, 2023

Noahboy

Not Recommended

I watched the English Dub film version of this and found it to be pretty disappointing overall. There are some things I like about it, like the 90s anime aesthetic and Hyper-Metal-Sonic, but those are bogged down by what feels like a lot of filler and lack of focus on its main plot. It constantly cuts to the president's daughter, Sara, who gets really annoying. I swear to god, she gets more screen time than Metal-Sonic, and they of course try to sexualize her for laughs, which comes across as gross and unfunny. I just wanted to see Sonic and Metal-Sonic duke it out, so ...

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