- What are those teeth?! Why is he wearing melted dentures?!
- I hate it. I hate it so much.
♪ (dramatic chord) ♪
- Oh my god! - Oh my god.
Is this Sonic the Hedgehog? - Oh, is it Sonic?
This is the Sonic-- I haven't seen this yet.
I've been meaning to watch it. - Oh my god. Oh, NOOOOOOOOOO!
- I have not seen this. I just saw all of the cries
about how terrible the design was.
- ♪ (Coolio, "Gangster's Paradise") ♪ - This song.
Why this song, though? - I was so excited for this
when I first saw it. And then they got "Gangsta's Paradise,"
and I'm like, "Oh, this is gonna be the [bleep]!"
- I've been seeing this [bleep] all over the internet.
And now, he's haunting me at goddamn FBE.
- I haven't seen this trailer before, 'cause I knew they were
gonna mess it up. I'm just like, I don't even
wanna be disappointed today. - He looks a little strange,
almost like a human. - What the [bleep] is this?
Why do we need live action everything? Let's leave a [bleep] cart--
I'm getting too heated. - (man) Just need someone
who can figure out exactly what we're dealing with.
- They better have his sidekick, Tails, in this.
If they don't, I'ma be upset.
- Oh my god! Is that Jim Carrey?
- (gasps) He is in it? Oh my god!
- I was about to just throw in the hat, throw in the towel,
not be part of this at all, but Jim Carrey showed up.
- (Robotnik) Are you in charge here? - (Major) Yes, I am.
- (Robotnik) Nope! - See, I think Jim Carrey looks great.
I think he's gonna surprise us a lot. - (Robotnik) In a sequentially-ranked
hierarchy based on level of critical importance,
the disparity between us is too vast to quantify.
Agent Stone? - (Stone) The doctor
thinks you're basic. - Ugh, that line was so cringy.
- (Major) Listen, pal, I don't know if you realize who--
- (Robotnik) I'm sorry, Major. What was your name?
- (Major) Benni-- - (Robotnik) Nobody cares!
- Wasn't there a lot of backlash on how Sonic looked in this?
- (Sonic) Meow? - I don't think it's that bad.
- I mean, he's not that bad. - Oh, and this is where
it all falls apart, REALLY falls apart.
What are those teeth?! Why is he wearing melted dentures?!
- (Sonic) Ah, come-- - Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no.
(gasps) That is not Sonic. - Basically, it looks like
I'm gonna have to save your planet. - [Bleep] this.
- Yo, this is weird.
- (Sonic) Is that all you got? - (Robotnik) No,
but thank you for asking.
- Whoa! Transformers! - How do you make a movie about Sonic?
I just feel like this is very weird. There wasn't a need.
I don't remember anyone asking for this.
- I have so many emotions that I can't process right now.
- And then they got the genesis line in there for all
of the old-school '90s kids. - (Sonic) Look at this.
- The legs get me. The frickin' legs are human legs.
- I'd rather watch a cartoon one in the original animation.
- I can't wait to see what the new version looks like,
and I hope they have to pay so much [bleep] money to fix it!
- You know what's really bad though is how long it's gonna take
to redesign him and how much money it's gonna take.
- Sonic the Hedgeho-- Wait, where's Tails?!
- (Tom) Stay in there and be quiet.
- (Sonic) How much longer? I can't breathe in here.
- (woman) Do you have your child in that bag?
- No, it's a [bleep] blue animated creep.
- (Tom) No. I mean yes, it's a child, but it's not mine.
- And then there's just a casual child abuse joke.
- How could you not love Jim Carrey, though?
I don't understand how you couldn't love him.
- Anyone who saw that and let it go by
deserves to be fired. I'm not trying to be mean,
but come on! You need to lose your job.
- There's just a few things about it that are weird.
The teeth. The teeth and the eyes.
Those are the big things. - I'm a Sonic fan,
but I'm not a huge Sonic fan. And also, I think it's just
for a younger audience. I don't think it's really made
for my age group. Although, the "Gangster Paradise" decision
confuses that. - "Sonic the Hedgehog the Movie: What if we were back in the '90s
but also simultaneously in hell?" True.
- Follow. Retweet. Like. Comment. Yes.
- It's looking that bed. I think they had
one funny line from the trailer. - "You nailed it, Sonic movie.
I don't see any difference." Also, I'm blind.
- it's not THAT bad. It's not like he, before,
looked awesome. - They should have made
his hands bigger instead of just making them white gloves.
It's so uncomfortable. He has little human hands.
- If you saw a live-action Sonic movie with the Sonic
on the left and everything else in live action as it was,
would you think the movie is better? I just don't know if it would work.
And I think that's the biggest thing
is they went for the realistic feel.
- "Left is original screenshot. Right is my rework to make Sonic
more stylized." I mean, I could see why people
were actually mad at how Sonic looked. But yeah, the one to the right
looks more like Sonic. - That's what I'm on board for.
EdwardPun1, hi. Take charge of this.
- Oh my gosh! That makes way more sense.
The proportions are way better. The one on the left literally looks
like a furry costume. - This is the viral tweet
that everyone's been talking about. People actually think this is what
the studio and the director are gonna use as reference
when they do their promised redesign. - "Why are his teeth so human?"
Yeah! Why did they do that? - Oh my gosh.
It looks like he has veneers. (laughs) That's awesome.
- (laughs) I hate it. I hate it so much.
I haven't seen this one. I hate it.
- "Sonic the Hedgehog movie pitch meeting.
Jim Carrey, chanting, 'Teeth, teeth.' Director, 'Teeth, teeth.'"
- "Paramount execs, 'TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!'"
I don't know if it went down exactly like that,
but I do feel like this is kind of a perfect Cliff Notes version
of that meeting. - When I played Sonic,
you could barely see his face, so there was no teeth.
Thoughts in my mind. - Sonic does have teeth!
I don't know why they're so detailed here.
And I don't know if making them less detailed makes it better.
- "I'm sorry but saying, 'If you're fine with Detective Pikachu
you should be fine with Sonic' is disingenuous from just
a character design standpoint." - "Pikachu still retains
the deep yellows and reds of this character and maintains
its infamous silhouette. Sonic is washed out, a blob."
I don't know if he's so much as washed out, but the Pikachu,
they really nailed. - Pikachu looks like Pikachu.
Sonic does not look like damn Sonic. I can tell you that.
- It's just the right balance of realism and cartoon.
- Sonic just looks like everyone at Paramount went to a ranch
and did a bunch of ayahuasca and came back going, "Eh,
that's good enough." I don't necessarily agree
with that comment. With a company like the Pokemon company,
it has to be up to Nintendo and Pikachu Pokemon quality.
There are certain things that have to be done.
When it comes to Sonic, Sonic has been struggling
for years to find his identity. I think they're just trying to see
what sticks to the wall. - "So this is what Sonic looks like."
- (Plankton) What? It's just an ordinary-- oh my goodness!
MY EYES! - (Chandler) Why? Why? Wh-why?
Why-why would they do this? - ♪ Tell me why ♪
- (Robotnik) WHY?! WHY! - Those are my thoughts exactly!
- (Sonic) What's this? - Oh my god. Tails.
Is tails in the movie?
- (Sonic) Why am I crying? - Yeah, I feel the same way.
Honestly. Mood. - Oh my god.
the internet is so quick with these things. It's crazy.
- My heart bleeds for everyone. It bleeds for the Sonic fans.
It bleeds for the production company. It bleeds for Sega.
I feel like everyone lost in this exchange.
- (FBE) So, obviously, as you see, there's been so much
negative response to the trailer that Jeff Fowler,
the director of the film released the following statement.
- (gasps) Oh! Wow, I can't wait to see this.
- "Thank you for the support and the criticism.
The message is loud and clear. You aren't happy with the design,
and you want changes." - "It's going to happen.
everyone at Paramount and Sega are fully committed to making
this character the best he can be #sonicmovie #gottafixfast."
Oh my god! - See? That's what I'm talking about.
Social media works! No more teeth! No more teeth!
- I can't imagine literally anybody doing this, being like,
"Yeah, you're right. Wow. After looking at it again,
it is kind of [bleep]." I would have just been like,
"It was artistic choice." - When should a creator create
and when should the audience speak up about the creation
to the point where the audience is now the creator?
And I think that that's something that is a very dangerous thing
in this landscape. I hope that that Jeff
and his team not only succeed at the reattempt at this.
I hope that they do it in a way where it doesn't hurt themselves.
- (FBE) So, as you've seen, the new Sonic movie has received
a lot of negativity online with the trailer on YouTube
getting over 200,000 more dislikes... - (gasps)
- (FBE) ...than likes as of the time that we're filming this.
- That's the difference? It's not even the total.
That's the difference. (croaks) Oh my god.
- (FBE) So, after watching the trailer, do you think
that people are overreacting? Or is this as bad
as people are making it out to be? - I mean, I definitely can't say
that people are overreacting when I just had a 10-minute,
like, Britney Spears meltdown. - It's as bad as people
are making it out to be. If you just listen to the audience
and do what they say, then everybody wins.
I think this is as bad as people are making it out to be.
There are so many Sonic fans out there,
and there's so many games establishing what he looks like.
There's a cartoon establishing what he looks like.
I feel like they did not consult
with any fans beforehand to learn what fans actually wanted.
- It it didn't feel like it was made for Sonic fans.
And it just-- there's something about humanizing Sonic almost too much
that does feel a little creepy. - I mean, I think they messed up.
I think they messed up big time, 'cause you can't lose
the most iconic features off of a character
that makes it a character and think that everyone's gonna be chill with it.
- (FBE) So, as you saw in one of the memes that we just showed you,
Detective Pikachu is also a film based on a video game getting
the live adaptation treatment. - Yeah, that one looks good.
- (FBE) The director of photography of the Pikachu film actually stated
that quote, "If all we're talking about is how these two films look,
our film is better than Sonic the Hedgehog.
And I'm sorry. I don't care who I upset
by saying that, but I think it looks better."
- Damn! Threw it down.
- (FBE) why do you think that people are more excited
and hyped up about Pikachu and not about Sonic?
- I think it's more or less that for Sonic, they just flat-out
made him look completely different, whereas for Pikachu,
they went with what the hardcore OG fans would want.
- The Pikachu one looks like Pikachu, and there's nothing
to really criticize yet about that movie.
But Sonic, when you look like you have human damn legs
and these weird features that do not represent Sonic,
you're gonna get some angry people. - The Pikachu movie is definitely
including adults more more so than Sonic,
because, you know, Sonic, it didn't really have adult jokes.
The Pikachu movie kind of had some jokes that I was like, "Oh.
Ooh, okay, you know, the 10-year-olds can't watch this."
- The Sonic trailer makes it very apparent that they're only
trying to appeal to children, and it is kind of insulting
to anyone's intelligence who actually is a fan of it
and wanted to see it. And then they're like, "Oh,
they thought Sonic fans were 10 years old."
- (FBE) This is not the first time that we've seen negative opinions
based on a trailer. Earlier this year,
several online users were upset with the live-action adaptation
of Aladdin. And particularly, the public really hated
the blue CGI version of Will Smith's Genie.
- Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah. See, I don't know what it is
with all these blue people, you know? Sonic and then the Genie,
they can't get it right. - (FBE) In that instance,
Disney backed up Genie, stating that they were, quote,
"Confident that audiences will fall in love with the Genie."
But in this instance, the director heard the critics
and has decided to make changes. What are your thoughts
on how the public is now able to literally shape the way
that a film can look in ways that we never used to be able to do?
Do you think that this is a good thing or is it a bad thing?
- I mean, it would've been funny if the director was like,
"I'm confident that people will fall in love with this version of Sonic."
But it is interesting, because on YouTube, obviously,
the comments shape the content, and we always pay attention
to what people want and people don't like
about the content that we make. And we adapt.
So, it's interesting that that's kind of creeping
into traditional media in the same way.
- It could be a good thing and a bad thing, because you always
wanna give like people what they want. But at the same time,
if someone went through the trouble of making a whole movie
and like people don't like it, it's like you're kind of
criticizing their hard work. And they probably thought
it was really good. So, I feel like it's kind of
a letdown for them. - I don't know if fixing Sonic
is gonna make people go see it. If a million people say,
"Change Sonic," and they say, "Okay, we've heard you
loud and clear. We're gonna change Sonic,"
they change Sonic, and those million fans go,
"That's not the Sonic that we want still.
Change them again," it's gonna be going back
to the drawing board every time. - I like it, because I pride myself
as a YouTuber in knowing what my audience wants.
I listen very closely to what they like
and what they don't like. And I feel like a lot of studios
possibly are a bit more distanced than many YouTubers are.
When I have to shape my work around what my audience wants,
I imagine a huge studio like Paramount or Disney
to do more than that.
- (FBE) So finally, do you think that you gotta go fast
and see this movie when it premieres in theaters?
Or do you think you'll slam on the brakes
and skip this one altogether? - I see bad movies all the time.
And so, I will see this movie no matter what it looks like,
because I need to see what the thought process was
from start to finish. - Sure. I'll go. I'll go real fast.
- Slam on the brakes for sure. I'll let the Rotten Tomatoes people,
you know, go at it first. And then, we'll watch it
on the airplane. - We gotta go fast.
Gotta go fast back through time and make sure we prevent it
before it happens. - Probably skip.
- I think we'll wait wait till it's straight to VHS.
- I don't think I'll skip it, because I'm very curious.
- I'ma slam on the brakes. - I think I'm gonna skrt skrt
off the [bleep] road and pray to God it tips
and tumbles down a mountain. - Everything about it just seems
like a cliche action movie for kids, and that's not something
I would be rushing out to the theater to see.
But... I might see it if they redesigned Sonic
and it looks-- well, I mean, I might.
I gotta go see it to see if the redesign lives up
to the expectations of the fans.
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