hi and welcome back to New rockstars I'm Jessica Clemens and this is our Sonic 3 breakdown Jeff Fowler directs Sonic 3 and stars none other than Ben Schwarz as Sonic Kino shanesy as Tails Idis Elba as knuckles and ke Reeves as Shadow this movie was weirdly emotional and Incredibly goofy I was lucky to have gone to the Los Angeles Premiere and was surrounded by nothing but children still their excitement made me excited and Sonic 3 delivers on Earth shattering fights it might be the closest thing to Dragon Ball Z I've seen since you know Dragon
Ball Z so let's break this movie Down scene by scene for the Miss details you might have missed but first it's not too late to check out nerd ride. shop this holiday season for the latest and greatest in new rockstars merge we've got all sorts of merge inspired by your favorite fandoms over there and right now you can take advantage of a special buy 1 get one 50% offer or buy two get one free support the channel and show off all your favorite fandoms by checking out nerd ride. shop I'm wearing my Star Wars one
I love this Star Wars helmet one I can't name every helmet but I still look good wearing it all right now let's get into it the movie opens at a holding facility for shadow on Prison Island in Tokyo bay Japan prison Island first appeared in Sonic Adventures 2 it's a large Jungle Island used as a prison and research base for gun this is where we see lonely Islands yarma tone who I haven't seen in a minute but he did direct the knuckles episode titled the Flames of disaster so he's within the Sonic family we learned
that Shadows been held in this facility for 50 years in stasis which coincides with the story from the video games and novels after Sonic Adventure 2 Rogue finds shadow in a stasis pod but in Sonic Adventure 2 it was Gerald's grandson Dr Eggman who revived him as part of a plan to take over the world and defeat Sonic so as you can see they kind of stay really close to the original story but tweak Minor Details we see Robotnik sigil as a security system is being hacked this releases Shadow from his stasis pod and he
starts beating every security guard in the room we got a glimpse of this scene actually in the trailer Shadow frees himself from the facility and Sprints across the water to Tokyo he's immediately stopped by a gun in which you know he retaliates over across the pond Sonic Tales and Knuckles decided to have a little race and being overly competitive Sonic immediately wins and finds out at the end of the race there holographs of Knuckles and Tails and this is only the beginning of learning about the vast mechanical devices that Tails will make for the movie
we'll see him also use handcuffs a security breaching thumb drive and holographic disguising morph suits while racing they're playing a cover of 99 Red Balloons as he storms through the forest and up the mountains he realizes it was a trap to deter him away from the surprise birthday party it's be Earth Day He says be Arthur day but it's like be Earth Day and it's his anniversary of being on earth eventually Sonic and Tom step away from the party and come upon Sonic's K from the first movie where he lived alone Tom unveils an illustration
of longclaw and Sonic and their home World hidden behind the MOs then the two share a heart-to- heart about finally finding his family and how he never changed who he was this is the part in the trailer where he goes in my lungs or your heart the part is been interrupted by gun and then we're introduced to Christen Ritter's character director Rockwell I also like that when she introduces herself she comes in and calls them all aliens Mr and Mrs wowski aliens aliens excuse me it's not like we're from different planet oh yeah we are
I guess we are aliens this will come back into play in a flashback later with Shadow and Maria watching a scary movie called beware the alien freak and it foreshadows what he'll be seen as ber soon this is also the moment where she refers to them as team Sonic to which Knuckles is confused and a little disgusted by team Sonic is the team of Knuckles Tails and Sonic which I believe was formed in the early 2000s video game Sonic Heroes in Tokyo we're now at the big shabuya Crossing you can see the media all around
on the walls the Starbucks and one for chow Garden which will be at soon that's when they stumble upon Shadow who has already destroyed plenty of cars in the area they released a full clip of this scene online a week before the premiere and let me tell you these introductions of these four guys are amazing it's so easy all four of their attitudes and characters are just so easily played for laugh Sonic is confused Shadow is angry Knuckles just wants to fight and Tails is frantically trying to deescalate the situation immediately Knuckles leaps to the
fight and is caught off guard when Shadow teleports closing the distance between the two grabbing his fist and twisting it Knuckles growls in pain then throws Knuckles into the air beating him midair then slaming him to the ground executed perfectly that's when Shadow then takes all three of them on and destroys each and every one of them and after that diabolical defeat he gets on his motorcycle kicks his gun laser into his palm and takes off the best version of Shadow is him wielding a gun so we were all excited for this after it was
revealed in the trailer Shadow also had a bike named dark rider in the games as well and I'm sure that's what the name of this motorcycle would be Sonic doesn't listen to the team and decides to chase after Shadow dodging traffic and running alongside his motorcycle which does remind me of Sonic adventur 2 where they first raced it's actually really cool watching the scene play out because Shadow is using his powers to teleport himself with the bike they race up the side of the building and this is the Tokyo Sky Tree and the camera turns
vertical to track them and it's just so nice from a distance you can see both their colors the red and blue intertwined as they're racing up the building this is where we get Shadows Accura slide then he launches himself off the bike back down toward Sonic waiting at the top of the building and when they Clash their powers immediately Wipe Out the power in Tokio when Sonic comes to he repeats a very famous line from Back to the Future 1.21 gigawatts but I need a nuclear reaction to to generate the 1.21 GW of electricity 21
GW they then realize Shadow's just too powerful and regroup nearby to find a different plan of attack they meet up at the Chow garden and the song playing is Lollipop by the tempura kids I've gone over this place in our trailer breakdown before but in short Chow Garden the pixelated like one that we're seeing right here was also featured in Sonic adventures 2o you could raise these little creatures called Chows and they're slightly different in color and performance later when the little girl notes that Tails looks like detective Pikachu we see the kids wearing more
distinct Chows the dark Chow cheese and the Red Chow there they meet with Commander Walters who appeared in the last two movies and like his name yes he's the commander of gun Commander Walters then tells Shadow's history to team Sonic he tells them how Shadow landed in Oklahoma from a meteor and was immediately taken in and monitored at the facility that's monitoring him Commander Walters is working there as a simple Soldier Shadow has an unprecedented amount of chaos energy within him and during some trial his power was too strong to contain and he exploded the
facility killing a lot of people now when we see the flashback later From Shadows perspective it's a little different we're introduced to Aila Browns Maria and during a day rollerblading through the facility and unpacking her belonging she finds Shadow and holding and they immediately become friends she even pulls him away from his experimental test to watch movies or dance or skate around the facility sometimes she'll steal scientist badges sneak up to the top of the facility and have heart tohe hearts with Shadow Under the Stars until one day gun arrived to shut down the entire
operation and when Gerald Robotnik Maria and Shadow are running away a gun agent misfired and hit a canister of Shadow's chaos energy thus exploding and killing Maria and giving Robotnik and Shadow an endless supply of Revenge in the actual game she gets shot by a bullet but in the movie they were like we'll just make it an explosion this as a whole works like Shadow's original storyline from the games but misses a little bit like some major points for one J Robotnik oversaw project Shadow a government sanctioned secret project that created Shadow who was originally
meant to help cure a disease that Maria had the second change in story line is that Commander Walters for me at least I assume would be the version of the commander from the games they resemble one another but they also grow into being the heads of gun however the commander from the games was actually the same age as Maria and his family also lived on the ship where she died he actually blamed Shadow for her death when gun showed up and shot her and that's also a major plot Point call it an accident but the
gun agent literally shot Maria in the games this time it was just a accident it wasn't really an accident these story lines along with the black Doom aren't approached in this movie but it doesn't take away from Shadow story it's just small little differences it's also not surprising they did a good job of sticking to the game's origin to this degree when Jeff Fowler the director of the movie worked on the original Shadow video game this video is sponsored by plarium special thanks to Universal Studios licensing if you play raid you already know what I'm
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they try to save Commander Walters who offer Sonic the key to the most destructive weapon gun has in its Arsenal and then he dies I'm pretty sure 100% that he just dies right here also it was kind of a worthless kill and I kind of chuckled at it but I guess he's gone he's gone for good they follow the mass motorcyclist to the edge of the pier and lo and behold is Agent Stone surprise surprise I wasn't surprised I knew it was agent Stone who else would it have been he tells them this wasn't Dr
robotnik's plan or doing because he's also been incapacitated this is where he reveals the crab Robotnik made similar drones like this in the video games the crab kind of menacing ones for a man out of commission though he's really been creating a lot of new gear so is he really incapacitated I don't think so inside the crab is a rough living and a rough looking robot nck and he's been binging Latin soap operas it's actually staring Christo Fernandez and we've seen him in Ted lasso you might have also seen him in venom the Last Dance
it also Stars Sophia peress from NBC's The Brave what's also very funny to me here is that they cast Kristen Ritter and Christo Fernandez and we were all like oh man who will they be we just all thought of these big big schemes and then she ended up being the director of gun and he's playing twin brothers that are also enemies in a tel Nolla it's just kind of funny to me that we had these big expectations and it wasn't that big but still fun I digress Robotnik around here has maybe the funniest lines in
the movie and the character is just so fun Jim car is having too much fun playing it at this point I think he's improvising 99% of the time I love that he's still addicted to those little electric strands Sonic has he's been taking hits off those since the first movie Stone cuts his hair and fixes his clothes and during this we can hear The Prodigy Fire Starter do you remember that song am I the old one here it it's just so good and there's a lot of old songs in this movie while he's looking for
inspiration for his new outfit he offers Elvis 1976 which of course is the Vegas Elvis and yes he does kind of resemble him and though he still looks very ratty he's good to go also the added weight in the suit makes him look more like Eggman than ever before once ready they take a magic ring portal to robotnik's egg drones to figure out who stole them and who blew up Chow Garden this leads us to the old gun facility the old facility that house Maria Gerald and Shadow little does team Sonic know that shadow and
Gerald are waiting for them and they all perfectly fell into their trap before the Trap is revealed they do this scene I really love they split up agent stone with tail Sonic with Eggman and Knuckles alone and Knuckles is afraid to go down the dark tunnel alone because he's afraid of ghost they flash back to watching the 1995 Casper movie and it genuinely scares Knuckles to the point he says this there's no such thing as a Friendly Ghost and that's just so funny to me this is where Gerald and Robotnik see each other for the
first time Robotnik is still very skeptical that this is really his actual grandfather so he asks him a series of questions to figure it out one of the questions is producing a formula for the speed of light times the speed of sound divided by the speed of the bus in the movie Speed that famously Stars Sandra Bullock and you guessed it Kean Reeves yes our very own shadow we learn here that Gerald Robotnik was imprisoned after the death of Maria and had promised gun a machine the Ultimate Weapon in exchange for his freedom this weapon
was the eclipse Cannon a machine also from the video games in Sonic Adventure 2 Eggman destroys half the moon using the eclipse Cannon to use the cannon you need two keys one currently with Sonic and the other within gun's headquarters in London and it's immediately clocked by us in the audience that Gerald is doing all of this to get to the key and not doing it out of the love for his grandson at all it's just the most straightforward strategy while Shadow has tail Sonic and Knuckles TI up it's revealed that Robotnik are now working
together and safe to say under different ideas and goals but still working together because like Eggman says double your villains double your fun that's when Shadow drops a piece of equipment and this was also seen in the second official trailer I think Sonic calls it a little marble this ball creates a mini black hole and like most of the mechanical things created by Gerald Robotnik it harnesses a bit of Shadows chaos energy the black hole starts engulfing everything in sight but luckily Sonic has a ring that can portal them back to Montana just in time
back in Montana we see Tom and Mt sitting in a living room full of clutter Tom's building a miniature tajma Hall while Maddy's been baking loaves upon loaves of sourdough bread they found an extensive amount of new hobbies due to the fact that team Sonic is AFK they're so bored they've been overdoing every hobby you can think of and I just think that's kind of really sweet it's like two parents when their kids go to college while Tom's building a little Taja Hall you hear a little soft version like a piano version of Sonic song
Green Hill Zone around this time in the film we learned that the Robotnik are getting very close which makes Stone jealous and a very funny Montage they sell celebrate every holiday and do family favorite activities through VR sets and leave Stone completely out of it it's still very funny but it's also really sad Stone shows up with two coffees in the VR montage and I assume these are the lattes with steamed Austrian goat milk that he loves so much this is a running bit through all three movies and it comes up again at the end
of this one in London now we see all the historical landmarks Big Ben the ferris wheel oh how fun at one point Sonic walks across ABY Road like the Beatles and says John Paul George and the other one and everyone hates on Ringo for no reason Tails has devised a plan to break into gun's headquarters to get the key before the Robotnik this plan involves Maddie and Tom going undercover as MD's sister Rachel and Tom has her husband Randall and gun uniforms this is really funny to me as well because in the trailer I was
like oh I brought Natasha Rothwell to return as Rachel how fun and they kind of did but they also didn't Tom and Maddie reach the security room and the thumb drive isn't working and this scene is just really funny to me because Knuckles offers to punch it to make it work something that he's going to do later and causes more problems though Tom offers to blow on and just stick it back in and that ends up working because you know it's an old '90s trick this is an old video game movie we get it inside
the Robotnik have already infiltrated wearing new wardrobes to bypass the lasers that's when this ridiculous breakdown dance happens and I feel like I should have saw this coming it's also very pleasing to watch this dance scene when the lasers and the shape of the room are the exact same shape as the Emerald luckily director Rockwell arrives revealing it was a trap and inside the Vault they have these sort of gravity and anti-gravity floors that capture the robot Nicks and Sonic just as they enter the room and then Knuckles punches his way past the Shields and
into gun's headquarters Knuckles when launching off Big Ben is showing off his flames of disaster punch we saw him use this in the series Once inside he gets the remote to turn off the gravity floors but instead decides to smash it and the remote then malfunctions forcing everyone to stick to the ground or just fly up in the air to save Tom and madd's life from crushing debris Sonic uses all his power and strength to break away from the floor and then he smashes into the giant debris headed straight towards them in doing so his
electric static from his powers turns off the anti-gravity floor allowing director Rockwell to get the key back on her way out Tom decides to do one more undercover job as Commander Walters to retrieve the key from director Rockwell successfully he grabs the key but then of course Shadow arrives and he punches him who he thinks is Commander Walters directly in the stomach with his energy chaos punch now Shadow recognizes Commander Walters from 50 years ago because remember he's the one that put sonic into stasis believing he was too unstable with Tom lying on the floor
somewhere between a coma and death Sonic finds him and his distraught Shadow has truly become the monster he feared and Sonic like Shadow Wants Revenge Shadow Stone and the robot Nicks escape with the key in the eclipse Cannon ship that rises out of the river Tims in London Shadow's chaos Energy starts the machine and they launch into space this is when our robot Nick Eggman learns that Gerald's actual plan was to blow up Earth along with themselves in an act of Vengeance for what had happened to Maria our Robotnik thought it was for world domination
not Extinction for this part in the movie also the Robotnik have their game accurate wardrobe Gerald's in his white suit and Eggman is in his red one back with Sonic in the team he iMed immediately forces Knuckles to tell them where the Chaos Emerald is the strongest person he knows has it and surprise surprise it's Adam Pal's Wade and he's using it for hockey practice on top of the sheriff building being a little weirdo as you may remember Wade and Knuckles became very close after knuckles's TV show so it makes sense the Rapport was strong
enough to let him keep the emerald safe it's also just not surprising to see him using this overwhelmingly powerful tool for target practice Sonic swiftly takes the chaos emerald and as we know he becomes superp Sonic and we saw Sonic become Supersonic in the second movie by harnessing the power of the cast emeralds he becomes just much faster stronger and able to withstand way more damage Now setting up the eclipse Cannon the ship gives the same look as eggman's sigil the mustache branches out and he has his little eyes in the game the eclipse Cannon
broke off to look like Eggman as well I like the different appearances they created for the movie from the game but the same gist you guys get it the Sonic then shoots through the spaceship grabbing Shadow through the other side leaving the Robotnik to fight over saving the planet or destroying it our Robotnik Eggman turns into a pran mantis while Gerald turns into a score there's actually a weird amount of animal version Robotnik in the Sonic franchise like scorpus the first boss from Sonic spinball from the Sega Mega Drive and then there's Hopper a robotic
grasshopper created by Dr Eggman for Sonic 3 though sometimes he's given the name Hopper they also refer to him as mantis so I assume these both come from that he pulls out this big mechanical hand then and it resembles the big arms that was a modified Machine by Dr Eggman from the video games as well he calls it the Nano Fist and he says something along the lines of I haven't seen one of those since I hate watch Greenland Lantern in 2011 as some remember Green Lantern would use that giant fist to knock back some
guys while Sonic and Shadow are fighting it out hard Shadow ends up knocking the emeralds out of Sonic literally it looks like that scene from Spider-Man no way home when strange bunches Spider-Man out of his physical form Shadow and Sonic then RAC for the chaos emeralds colliding causing a huge beam of chaos energy explosion we see Sonic has returned as supersonic form but Shadow has returned as Super Shadow His bands are glowing a little bit of gold his fur is basically White and the red highlights are still showing super Shadow appeared in Sonic Adventures 2
and other video games this is Shadow's state after harnessing the chaos emeralds though respectfully we knew this was also going to happen we've seen superp Sonic already you got to give a Super Shadow this fight is the Dragon Ball Super Saiyan like Goku versus Vegeta brawl that I was talking about Sonic speeds to Shadow with his fist and Shadow captures it unamused Knocking him a few times before Hulk smashing him to the ground they keep battling their combined speed taking them from their volcano setting to Mountain Plains to Egypt they're fighting in Leaps and Bounds
across the globe eventually leaping to another planet and when Sonic has shadowed down for the count he refuses to end it this is when we get that moral flashback moment to Tom reminding him how he led with his heart and it's not in Sonic's nature to act out of Revenge this is a real what is grief if not love persevering moment because Sonic and Shadow both lost folks very close to them and the pain never really went away but they'll always be remembered Sonic and Shadow then get ready to save the world with Sonic saying
his famous catchphrase got to go fast back with the Robotnik our Robotnik Dr eggman's been taken down hanging to the edge dangling over an opening that'll have him falling to earth when Gerald then kicks his fingers from the deck releasing him down out of the ship he's luckily saved by Tails and Knuckles then with Sonic's little static hair he pokes Gerald's butt and he goes flying into the chaos energy used to make the ship run that's now three deaths Maria Commander Walter and Gerald and one in critical Health AKA Tom lots of death in this
movie lots more than the other two they see Sonic and Shadow returning and at this point the song Live and Learn by crush is playing and this is the song from Sonic Adventure 2 they've only got so much time to move the ship so the eclipse Cannon doesn't shoot through Earth Sonic and Shadow withhold the first blow from the cannon while Knuckles tailes and Dr Robotnik try to find a way to stop it they're able to move the cannon slightly so it bypasses Earth but it still slices through a moon which is exactly what Eggman
does in Sonic Adventures 2 the Power of the blast was too much for Sonic to withstand so he starts falling at Rocket speed back to Earth Tails launches himself out of the ship to save him and Shadow tells Robotnik they need to find a way to stabilize the ship that's running on his chaos energy while Robotnik tries to stabilize Shadow will pull off his rings and push the ship Shadow's rings work to limit his chaos powers usage and he can take them off when he needs maximum power this is coded in the lore of the
game it's not really specified here but I think we can all assume it does the same thing otherwise why would he remove them tails is barely able to make it to Sonic fainting due to the speed of the fall but luckily Knuckles flies down and saves the two of them shooting them through the last ring portal Robotnik makes a farewell live stream video to Stone saying he was a great friend and how much he loved the steam Austrian goat milk lattes and this scene feels exactly like in Sonic Adventures 2 when Eggman gives his Spiel
before using the cannon he put himself on big screens around the world and was just broadcasting his crimes we did a flipped version of that now because he has a heart then he bids Ado as the ship explodes creating a Milky Way where Shadow and Robotnik once were back at Sonic's Earth Day party they finally have a time to celebrate and all seems well and just when you think the movie's over it's not like our introduction to Knuckles and Shadow the next movie's newest edition was revealed in the mid- credit scene Sonic has raced himself
to New York there's an army of Metal Sonic surrounding him Metal Sonic has made appearances in loads of things he's a crazy character very dangerous created by Dr Eggman and since his creation his one purpose to destroy Sonic he can imitate his moves and Achieve similar speed and sometimes he's acknowledged as eggman's best invention Metal Sonic also uses an arm Cannon which is very very cool but it's surprising to see an army of metal Sonics versus just the one which leads me to believe that there might be a bigger Metal Sonic at play here or
maybe in the next movie they'll be less dangerous than we suppose I refuse to believe they'd allow 25 plus metal Sonics throughout Sonic 4 with equal strength to Sonic there has to be one strong that just rules them all luckily Sonic doesn't go 1 v20 with them because he's saved by Amy Amy jumps in to save the day with her hammer and Amy we know who Amy is we were waiting on her to arrive which gears us up for an even more exciting Sonic 4 down the line then when you really think it's over we
get another scene in a dirt hole in the ground like a meteor had just Fallen we see Shadow's shoes and him picking up one of his Rings proving to us he'll be back Sonic 3 was genuinely exactly what I expected it was surprisingly much more connected to the game story than I imagine the movie delivered in Big Brawl fights and really knew what its younger audience was looking for and Jim Carrey was truly making me die of laughter I've been waiting for the rest of the team to show up though I'm really happy that we
got Amy let me know if this surprised you guys in the comments below let me know what you're expecting from the next movie let me know if you like this movie more than the other movies let me know if you just liked it follow me at Lulu Clem and subscribe to all three channels in the new Rockstar Network for more breakdowns and news coverage of everything you love thanks for watching got to go fast
