♪ (playful intro) ♪
- (FBE) So today, we're gonna have you watch your kid watch
a brand new trailer for the new movie Sonic the Hedgehog.
- Oh, okay! She's gonna love that.
- Holy moly. Sonic the Hedgehog. I remember that growing up.
- I've seen previews for it. I don't know.
I hope it's gonna be good, you know what I mean?
But you never know. - I don't even know
if he'll know Sonic. That'll be interesting.
I've tried to introduce him to old video games that I used to play.
- She actually did tell me that she was excited for that movie.
So, I think she'll be happy to see this.
- (FBE) So today, you are going to be watching a movie trailer
for a brand new movie. - Ooh, I love movies.
- He does love movies. - I'm Sonic...
- (gasps) Sonic! - Wow, look at those graphics.
- I'm Sonic, a little ball... - Oh! I wanna see this movie so bad.
- I'm Sonic, a little ball... - Sonic the Hedgehog? (chuckles)
- (Sonic) ...a little ball of super energy...
- Whoa! - Yes!
- I've played the game of this. - (Sonic) On my planet,
people were always after my powers, so I came to yours.
- First, they made it kinda ugly. They made him have a square head
and stuff, so they had to restart it. - Wow.
- (Sonic) It gets a little lonely... but that's okay.
I am living my best life on Earth. - (laughs) He took one of the signs.
- The graphics are amazing. Look at this little karate thing!
- This is really cool. - You know what's interesting is none
of this in this trailer matches with anything from the other trailer.
- (Sonic) Uh-oh. Uh... - (Tom screams)
- (Sonic screams) - (laughs)
- (Tom) Why are you hiding out in my garage?
- (Sonic) They're coming for me! If they steal my power,
they could conquer the universe. You have to help me.
- No, I don't. - (Sonic) Please.
- That's James Marsden, right? Okay.
Oh! There he is! - He knows who Jim Carrey is.
He watches-- - Ooh, is that Jim Carrey?
- Ooh! Yeah. - Is that Jim Carrey? Holy moly.
I love Jim Carrey. - Uh-oh. He's the evil
doctor robot guy. - (Robotnik) I'm going to give you
five seconds to tell me where it is. - (Sonic) Wait, don't hurt him!
- (Robotnik screams) - (laughs)
- (Sonic) Road trip! Woot, woot! - (Tom sighs) This can't be
happening to me. - (Sonic) Oh my god. Stop the car
right now. (Tom) What?! What?!
- (Sonic) The world's largest rubber band ball?! We gotta see it!
- I wanna see a rubber ball. - (Sonic) Eh, you're right.
It was lame. Gift shop was cool, though.
- (chuckles) ♪ (upbeat music) ♪
- (Robotnik) Whatever this creature is, I'm going to uncover the source
of its power. (electricity zaps)
- (chuckles) ♪ (upbeat rock music) ♪
- Dance party.
- (Robotnik screams) - Was that Jim-- that wasn't
Jim Carrey, was it? No. Is that Jim Carrey?! That's what's up!
That's her favorite. She must not know that's Jim Carrey,
'cause she LOVES Jim Carrey! - (Sonic) Let me show you
how it's done. - I love Sonic.
- (Sonic) I've always wanted to do this. Nailed it!
- ♪ Ay, oh, let's go! ♪ - (Sonic) Here comes the boom.
- Anyway, it looks cool. - (Sonic) Here comes the boom.
- (Tom) How are you not dead? - (Sonic) I have no idea!
- Why are you dancing when you're on a mission?
- (Robotnik) Give me a big fat break! - (Noelle giggles)
- It looks like it's a fun movie. I mean, I think the family
would really enjoy it. - (Sonic) Aww, this one is cute.
Let's keep him. Whoa! Come on!
- It's not cute! It's destroying the car.
- (Sonic) Come on! You've got car insurance, right?
- Convertible! - Well, we know what impresses her.
- (Robotnik) Why would you throw your life away for this
silly little alien? - (Sonic) Good times.
- (Tom) He's my friend. - Yeah, she loves
this type of stuff. - I can't wait to see this.
- Now I'm gonna have to go buy her Sonic everything, right?
- (Sonic) This is my power, and I'm using it to protect my friends.
- Good animation. Good action sequences.
- I like it. I think it's gonna be good.
- Sonic the Hedgehog. - (Sonic) So, you're supposed to be
Tom's best friend that he won't shut up about.
- (dog panting) - (Sonic) Well, I don't see
the appeal. (gasps) That is very gross!
- (laughs) - ♪ Let's go! ♪
- I'm definitely gonna go see this movie.
- It's a movie that I definitely, definitely, definitely wanna see
probably the first day it comes out or something.
- (FBE) So, what do you think that your mom would say if she
saw you watching the trailer right now?
- I think she would think that she would say, "Okay,
you've proven to me you should see this."
- Well, I'm gonna need more proof. I need more proof.
- (FBE) Well, we actually have a bit of a surprise for you.
We had your parents watching you react,
and we're actually gonna have them come in now
and film the rest of the episode with you.
- Okay. That's fun. - (Ramona) So, what do you think?
- I think I really wanna see it, Mom. - Do you?
- I'm surprised he knew Sonic, but I'm more surprised
that you didn't know Jim Carrey. - Oh my god.
- (FBE) Before we jump in, we wanted to ask the kids
if they are familiar with the character Sonic the Hedgehog.
- Of course I am. I used to watch the show a lot.
- I've heard of him. I've never really played the game.
- You've played before. - Mm-hmm.
- So, you've seen him in games. Have you seen him anywhere else?
- Uh... no. - He's from a video game,
where he's... like, there's an evil doctor guy,
and Sonic doesn't like the evil doctor guy,
and he's just a really fast blue hedgehog.
- (FBE) Well, as your parents probably know, Sonic was actually
first released in 1991 as a video game and is one of the most well-known
gaming characters of all time. - Yes.
- Yes. He was on Sega. - He was on Sega. Yeah.
- My cousins had a Sega Genesis, and that was the game to play.
- That's the beginning of high school for me.
And so, what did we do when we weren't at school?
We were playing video games. - Oh, yeah. Did that--
actually, when you bought the Genesis, Sonic came with it.
So, that was the game that you played.
- I didn't even know Sonic was old.
I thought Sonic came in 2010. - (chuckles)
- (FBE) What are your thoughts on how they're taking
a classic character from a video game and making a story and a movie
surrounding it? - I think that's a...
I mean, it's a cool concept, but I mean, it's probably a big risk.
But it looks really good. - That's a great idea in concept.
I've just never actually seen it... come together.
- I love stuff like that! It's frickin' amazing to see.
And the graphics are so beautiful and so clear, you know what I mean?
- (FBE) So, this movie features a character that has
supersonic speed powers and uses them for good.
If you had supersonic speed powers, how would you use them?
- Uh, I would save people? - You're going for the hero route.
- I would save the world from danger and no one would know my true powers,
so I'd wear a disguise, so when I save the world
no one knows that it's actually me. - I would be good with basketball,
because usually, I could dribble and I could go across all the kids
and shoot. - I would run around and around
in a circle until I was so dizzy. - I'd stop by Starbucks
every five seconds. (chuckles) - (laughs) That might be
kind of scary actually. - Mom! (laughs)
- (FBE) Having grown up around the time when Sonic
was first released, can you talk about what it means
to now be able to share this character with your kid
in a whole new way? - It's always good to share
your childhood with your kids. Back in '91, I was, you know,
a teenager still. - Back in '91, I wasn't even here.
- Right? So, you know, I wasn't young, but I wasn't old.
I was kind of in the middle. - But now you're old.
- But now I'm old according to him, so there you go.
- I think it's good. I think it's exciting for the kids,
because the parents can kinda relate. - I love it. I just feel
like if I love it or my husband loves it,
automatically, he's like, "It's lame."
If he discovers it on his own, I think you're a little more
likely to like it than if we say, "It's such a good movie.
You should try to watch it. This character's amazing!"
And then he's like, "Mm, maybe." - You always wanna share,
you know, what you did as a parent with your kids
whether they like it or not. It's gonna give us an opportunity
to talk, enjoy each other's company, and it just opens up so many
more doors for parents even though we're kind of forcing our childhood
on our kids. - We saw a teaser earlier
in the year, right? And then, she remembered the show,
and then I told her, I have a game console that's just--
you just plug it straight into the TV. And it was so cool to sit there
and explain to her what each thing does.
And I looked so cool, because I knew the rings
were the portal thing. And if you got 100,
you got another life. We had a good time.
- Yeah. - It was really fun.
- (FBE) So finally, you guys, do you think you'll catch
Sonic the Hedgehog with your family when it hits theaters
in February of 2020? - Yes!
- Yes, of course. Definitely. - Yes.
- You wanna go? - Yes.
- Yeah, I think I'm-- I wanna go. - Probably.
- Yeah. - We see everything.
- Yeah, I'm pretty excited. - Yeah!
- We might go for her birthday. Her birthday's a couple days
after it opens. - Yeah.
- Take me to the movie. - (laughs) I will take you
to the movie for sure. You wanna go
on a movie date with mama? - Sure.
- All right. - Can we have churros?
- Absolutely. - I will catch that immediately.
I will ride a bicycle, a hover board, a skateboard to see it.
- You won't have to, 'cause I'm gonna drive you.
You're gonna get there quick. We're gonna be the first one
in line, okay? - Okay.