History Anime / SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie

* CurbStompBattle: Sonic is almost effortlessly beaten by Metal Sonic in their first fight, and only survives because Metal Sonic loses track of him. Interstingly, their second fight was ''also'' turning into a curb stomp battle before Tails interferred. If Tails hadn't stepped in and corruputed Metal Sonic's programming, Sonic would have been killed.

* CurbStompBattle: Sonic is almost effortlessly beaten by Metal Sonic in their first fight, and only survives because Metal Sonic loses track of him. Interstingly, their second fight was "also" turning into a curb stomp battle before Tails interferred. If Tails hadn't stepped in and corrputed Metal Sonic's programming, Sonic would have been killed.

* CurbStompBattle: Sonic is almost effortlessly beaten by Metal Sonic in their first fight, and only survives because Metal Sonic loses track of him. Interstingly, their second fight was also turning into a curb stomp battle before Tails interferred. If Tail's hadn't corrupted Metal Sonic's programming, Sonic would have been killed. This is one of the only instances this troper can think of where Sonic was compeltely outclassed by his opponent.

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An hour-long anime {{OVA}} starring [[SonicTheHedgehog everybody's favorite]] [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative blue hedgehog]]. It was originally released in Japan in 1996 (initially as the two half-hour VHS tapes ''Journey to Eggmanland'' and ''Sonic vs. Metal Sonic''); the English dub by ADV was released in 1999, the day before ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' hit the shelves.

* ChekhovsGag: Robotnik's extremely-slow-moving turtle missile. [[spoiler:It pops up later just in time to destroy the CD Robotnik has with Sonic's DNA data that he could use to make another Metal Sonic.]]

* ShoutOut: One of the derelict aircraft on Sonic's island looks suspiciously like [[StarTrek the USS Enterprise]]. Also, Sera's wedding dress is reminiscent of [[SailorMoon Neo-Queen Serenity]]'s outfit.

''Sonic The Hedgehog'' is widely regarded as that rarest of rarities — [[VideogameMoviesSuck a good videogame movie]], though the voice acting in the English dub is [[YourMileageMayVary debatable]]. It only has a superficial resemblance to the events of the video games yet the plot, art, and characterization still do an excellent job of capturing the ''spirit'' of the classic games. In any case when it was made the Sonic canon had far less development to clash with. Certainly it's surprisingly well-received among [[UnpleasableFanbase the fanbase]], despite having no links to anything else. It currently holds a 68% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes via the RT community (no official critic reviews, however).

* CoolOldGuy: Old Man Hoot, but YourMileageMayVary.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: The ending song, "Look Alike", is sung (and spoken for a bit) in, for the most part [[hottip:*:[-The singer pronounces memory as "memorai" in one verse, which isn't entirely grammatically sound.]]-], well-pronounced and grammatically correct English.

** Mind you, the film isn't nearly as dark as it sounds. In fact, it pretty much goes out of it's way ''not'' to take itself seriously in both the Japanese and English versions.

* CanonDisContinuity: While never outright stated, the movie seems to be doomed to this status, due to its lack of direct connection to the games, the fact that Sega never ''ever'' brings it up in the documentaries, and the current lack of re-releases (although this could be due to ADV Films, the company that dubbed it, going bankrupt after its 2004 re-release) and its obscure, generally unknown status as a whole.
** "Look-a-like" was released on the compilation album True Colors in 2009, so SEGA hasn't completely forgotten about it.

An hour-long anime {{OVA}} starring [[SonicTheHedgehog everybody's favorite]] [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative blue hedgehog]]. It was originally released in Japan in 1996 (initially as the two half-hour VHS tapes ''Journey to Eggmanland'' and ''Sonic vs. Metal Sonic''); the English dub by ADV was released in 1999, the day before ''SonicAdventure'' hit the shelves.

* DeathCourse: The path to Robotropolis, though Sonic and Tails make short work of it.
-->'''Sonic''': I bet Robotnik purposefully picked the route with the most traps for us!

* GetAholdOfYourselfMan: Sonic attempts to knock some sense into Old Man Hoot by [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold attaching a crab to his foot]], [[RalphWiggum it has limited success]].

* RalphWiggum: Old Man Hoot didn't even realize his ''rocket was on fire''!

* PowerCreepPowerSeep: In ''[[Sonic3AndKnuckles S3&K]]'', Knuckles could glide through the air. Here, it gets upgraded to the ability to jump ridiculously high, hover in midair, and possibly fly outright.

* CanonDisContinuity: While never outright stated, the movie seems to be doomed to this status, due to its lack of direct connection to the games, the fact that Sega never ''ever'' brings it up in the documentaries, and the current lack of rerelease (although this could be due to ADV Films, the company that dubbed it, going bankrupt after its 2004 rerelease) and its obscure, generally unknown status as a whole.

* BLAMEpisode: Sort of. It makes sense as a standalone story, but it really has nothing to do with the source material or any other adaptation.

* {{Expy}}: Sera is pretty much a human Amy Rose, presumably Amy herself didn't make an appearance becuase her being the president's daughter and Eggman's 'interest' didn't work quite as well, in the creator's minds anyway.

* [=~Chekhov's Gag~=]: Robotnik's extremely-slow-moving turtle missile. [[spoiler:It pops up later just in time to destroy the CD Robotnik has with Sonic's DNA data that he could use to make another Metal Sonic.]]

* [=~The President's Daughter~=]: Sera.

* GetAholdOfYourselfMan: Sonic attempts to knock some sense into Old Man Owl by [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold attaching a crab to his foot]], [[RalphWiggum it has limited success]].

* GetAholdOfYourselfMan: Sonic attempts to knock some sense into Old Man Owl by [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold attaching a crab to his foot]], [[RalphWiggum it has limited success]]

** More like PokeThePoodle — Metal's just being petty because he knows it'll irritate Sonic.

** Resemble? It looks like it's intended to be NYC!

* GetAholdOfYourslfMan: Sonic attempts to knock some sense into Old Man Owl by [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold attaching a crab to his foot]], [[RalphWiggum it has limited success]]