On Tuesday (April 30th) Paramount Pictures released the first trailer for its live-action Sonic The Hedgehog movie. If you don't know, Sonic is a legendary video game character, and for some reason suits at Paramount decided to resurrect this Sega IP.
The movie stars Jim Carrey, playing a slimmed down version of Sonic's nemesis Doctor Robotnik, James Marsden, and Tika Sumpter. Voicing Sonic Ben Schwartz.
And that skepticism was seen all over Twitter after the trailer was released:
\u201c[Sonic the Hedgehog movie pitch meeting]\n\nJim Carrey: [chanting] teeth, teeth -\nDirector: teeth, TEETH\nParamount execs [pounding the table]: TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!\u201d
The most baffling things about the trailer, however, is the song choice used for the trailer. For some reason, Coolio's mid-'90s smash hit "Gangsta Paradise" — which was on the Dangerous Minds soundtrack — was featured throughout the trailer:
\u201c1999: Sonic the Hedgehog is so cool\nMe: We get a live action movie in 20 years\n1999: Wow!\nMe: Ace Ventura is Eggman\n1999: no wait\nMe: The first trailer is set to Gangsta's Paradise\n1999: hold up a minute\nMe: The first thing he says is gOtTa gO fAsT\n1999:\u201d
— Robert Scarpinito (@Robert Scarpinito) 1556637193