Sonic 3: The Jim Carrey Show is back [critique]

The third Sonic gives Jim Carrey his best (double) role since Fools for Irene.

Sonic 3yay? But yes. The proof is two good ideas. The first good idea of ​​this third film is to relegate Sonic to the background. The unbearable digital elf endowed with an irritating humor in the first degree definitely serves no other purpose than being a simple loss leader. If we pretend to be a little interested in the plot, Sonic 3 features Shadow, an evil double of Sonic kept frozen for fifty years (on an island called “Prison Island”, convenient) and who will obviously escape to sow chaos in a kids-friendly rereading ofAkira (Otomo's film is visually cited numerous times).

Which is already not bad, especially in the fighting scenes worthy of a shonen between Shadow and Sonic super saiyan version on the Moon. It's less good when it's Sonic in line with the first film: ground-level jokes and vanilla speeches on the MIF which protects and cures everything. Nothing too bad, but nothing, really.

The second good idea is to have given the lion's share to Jim Carreyin a dual role: that of Professor Robotnik and his own grandfather. Carrey facing himself, the only one who can match him one would say, making Sonic 3 the heir of Crazy for Irene And The Disastrous Adventures of the Baudelaire Orphans. Or the vivisection between the yin yang performance of the Farrelly masterpiece and the funfair cosplay of the Silberling (we also see images of the beautiful Casper from 1995, by the same director, in Sonic 3). All in a mutant Austin Powers atmosphere – we also think very hard ahead Sonic 3 how Mike Myers cloned himself throughout the trilogy – even at the Crazy family.

That would also be an idea for the future of the Sonic franchise: keep some fighting scenes digitally to satisfy Sega's rights holders' office and create new doubles of Jim Carrey, ad infinitum. Let's come back to earth a little, to our Sonic 3 : how can you resist when Carrey (still impeccably dubbed in VF by Emmanuel Curtil) asks his henchman for a new suit more suited to his big belly, like “Elvis, around 1976” ? This is our Carrey, John Constantine of US comedy, always haunted by a horde of specters (Kaufman, Hank/Charlie Bailey, the Mask, the Riddler…) and ready to summon them. We just need to give him the opportunity. Any one.

Sonic 3by Jeff Fowler, with Jim Carrey, Jim Carrey, Krysten Ritter… Released December 25.