<em>Sonic the Hedgehog 2</em> Is Confident, Dorky Fun
Video-game movies have firmly entered the monoculture, and Sonic is here to lead the parade.
When Sonic the Hedgehog made his theater debut , after decades as a famed video-game mascot, the cinematic equivalent of a ball and chain was placed around his speedy little legs. He still looked every inch the big-eyed blue speedster from Sega’s many games, but the movie made him spend all of his time palling around with a local cop in small-town Montana instead of battling alien robots in phantasmagoric, loop-de-loop-filled locations like the . Sonic, who wears a pair of red sneakers and downs chili dogs, can run at the
