Sonic The Hedgehog 3 Movie Trailer Finally Reveals Keanu Reeves' Shadow

I thought Jim Carrey said the 2nd Sonic movie was his last, or am I mistaken? Anyway, great to see him back as Eggman! And love what they did with Shadow. Seems like a good idea to binge the movies at some point, since I haven't watched any of them.

I'm personally glad they chose a star's popularity over a talented voice actor for the role. Keanu's wooden acting cannot be matched.

Can't wait! I loved the first two movies, excited for this one!

Hype!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥
And Gerald is still alive?!

@Anti-Matter: What issue do you have against Keanu? And please don't tell me its because of the many "mature" roles he has done over the years.

Wake the **** up, Sonic! We have a city to escape

Ah YEAH THIS IS HAPPENING

This is looking fantastic!! Oh yeah, this really is happening!!
I have ONE concern though; we didn't see the ARK at all in the trailer. Is it even going to be in the movie? I really hope so, though what we've seen so far is already fantastic

Can't help but feel the Keanu Reeves joke from the first movie basically guaranteed him being cast as Shadow.

@Coolmusic I'm interested but not excited about Keanu. I have no hate towards the guy, but it's clear he wasn't chosen for his acting skills. There's celebrities out there who are very good at voice acting. I would rather have them if I can't have an experienced voice actor.

Keanu is at his best as an action star. It's not a sleight against him, but he has no range or versatility. Not every actor is fit for every role.

@Maubari Very much agree. I would say this looks a tiny bit less of a SA2 adaption than we thought, but only a tiny bit. They could never fit everything in. Plus, there will probably be a 2nd trailer with more.

I still think we will get a Bio-Lizard fight and 'Live and Learn' is confirmed as a song in the film!

They went full fat Eggman. Lol.
Or, at least for one scene. He then looks normal again?

So excited! Looks like a great mash of silly and serious. I think this has the chance to be the best out of the three films, so let’s hope this is good. December can’t come soon enough!

Though, I do think from what was shown in the trailer, it appears to have a bit less elements of the Adventure games, and it honestly looked like they took more elements from that Shadow the Hedgehog game. Not complaining though! Just as long as the film is good.

at long last it’s finally here! Man I’m so hyped!

@Anti-Matter But he is such a nice guy, I mean I don’t know him personally but from everything I have seen and read he is really nice, what roles he plays doesn’t have anything to do with him as a person.

These movies have been the very rare example where I expect them to be terrible but they are quite good.

My biggest issue is Sonic's voice because I can ONLY hear Dewey Duck.

@Coolmusic @Snatcher
I never like him at all.
From his looking, from the roles he got.
And yes, I hate his rated M stuffs.

I just now noticed that Tom has seemingly joined GUN, he has their emblem on his uniform (assuming the uniform isn't stolen or something like that).

@WaffleRaptor01 : Thats understandable, and thanks for the reply. But I was really just curious on Anti-Matter's thoughts here since..well I don't wanna say anything that will get me blocked or my reply removed so I just say that its sometimes hard to understand his perspective of things. Everyone is entiled to their opinions of course.

@Anti-Matter: Whats wrong with his looks? Judging someone by their appearance regardless of what they do is just a bit too harsh.

This looks great. Hope there's a triple bill/midnight screening at my local cinema )

@Anti-Matter Dang.. I get not liking his other stuff but I’m not sure what his looks got to do with it.

I did like the bit where Shadow slams Sonic in to the floor, as Agent Smith did with Neo in The 3rd Matrix film. Was almost like Keanu getting his own back 😂

Fantastic trailer, looks promising. Definitely we go see it again.

@Anti-Matter He may play very serious roles but if youve ever seen an interview with him he is the sweetest, silliest guy around, and I've known people who've met him in real life and say hes absolutely lovely

@Zeldinion Can agree with that. I have read a Wikipedia article on him and some of the stuff he has said is so funny, and there was this silly photo of him running with a paparazzi’s camera, and he looked so happy there. He does seem like a nice guy that you’d want to be friends with Everyone loves him!

@Pastellioli Well anti-matter doesn't, so that statement is incorrect.

After the tone of the previous movies, I was expecting the tone of this film to be a bit more serious and darker, but the millennial writers couldn't help but shove in more annoying MCU-style quips in this film. So much for doing things differently a bit for a change.

I'm half-expecting a laugh track to start playing just cue the audience to know when to laugh.

@Quiet2down I probably should have said that nearly everyone likes him. I rarely see a lot of people talk about their disdain for him. I know that it’s impossible for any person to be liked by everyone, but Keanu seems like that one guy that almost everyone loves a lot.

@russell-marlow Err... maturity isn't the first adjective I think about Sonic and he has always made some quips (especially against Robotnik) since he could talk in SA1.

He's supposed to be a teenager that acts bratty like in the first two movies.

@Pastellioli Nah, you're good. I'm just having fun. I understood what you meant.

@Anti-Matter You would be the one to express a dislike for Keanu Reeves, haha.

@Dr_Corndog
Well, every people have different interest, different likes / dislike things.

@G_and_Thomas My boi, we're talking about SA2 not SA1.

@Quiet2down Got it! Sorry for any misunderstanding.

Trailer looks great. 1 and 2 was great too

I saw a chao garden and now I’m frothing at the mouth

Keanu didn't wow me here but Shadow himself and everything else looks great. I'll be seeing this in theaters for sure.

Was definitely hoping for a hint at Amy appearing (based on nothing other than her being part of the core 4), but the trailer looked great! I'm sure we'll enjoy this as much as the first two!

This trailer confirmed that Shadow will be funny to some degree. Also, Samba De Amigo chao.

This film is going to be amazing.

this is so cool! i cant wait!!

@G_and_Thomas Eh. I come from the Blue Archive community and we have some capital-B brats in our game, and Sonic is nowhere close to the definition. Both versions of him.

Hell, in the games alone, Sonic is regularly playful against self proclaimed authority figures, never taking them fully seriously and always trying to keep the mood light and welcoming. But when it comes time to touch on something sensitive, he regularly straightens up or even tries to be the shoulder the turmoiled character needs, as seen in Black Knight or Rush. Hell, he even took shadow's "death" seriously, saluting his "postmortem" effort with a heartfelt "adios". Safe to say, Sonic has his fair share of mature moments. He's just also mature enough to be a kid too.

If you want a franchise comparison, he's like Dante from Devil May Cry. Someone who seems relaxed at heart.

@russell-marlow it's a kids movie about talking hedgehogs based on kids video games.... not exactly screaming maturity.

@Corvus96 Guess you never played the game about a talking animal wielding a machine gun shouting "damn!"

Some cool trivia:

Shadow the Hedgehog was going to be rated T for Teens, but was toned down by Sega to reach a wider audience.

Scenes which were heavy in violence were edited to reach the lower rating. Some examples include:

1. Maria Robitnik death scene. It was entiryl removed fromt he game in which it would have featured the character being gunned down.

2. The intro was also changed. Originally it was Shadow gunning down police officers. It also featured therm bleeding out as a result.

Lastly, Sonic was actually going to use the word "Piss" throughout the game.

Had the orignal vision went through, Shadow the Hedge would have been the maturest game in the entire franchise. Even with the tone altered, it still is.

But casting that aside, just because Sonic is aimed at a everybody (not just for kids as you put it) doesn't mean it can't do a mature story.

By all accounts Sonic Adventures 1 & 2, Sonic '06, and Sonic Frontiers have mature themes and ideas. Sonic Adventure deals with Chaos who was watched over the chaos as their guardian. Only to be attacked by a Knuckles clan which led him to be angry and wanting to destroy all life.

Sonic Adventure 2 deals with Shadow filled with anger after watching Maria Robtnik killed.

Sonic 06 despite it's technical hiccups was perhaps the most mature a Sonic game could get. Sonic had the right balance of cocky yet serious, Shadow grew as a character who in end the didn't care if the world hated him. He would still choose to fight for humanity till he drew his last breath. That was the promise he made to Maria and he wasn't going to break it.

Even taking it outside of the games, let's look the closet Sonic Movie we had before then. Sonic OVA. Sonic had the right balance of co** and yet serious. Just replay the final fight between him and Metal. During the fight he's playful yet serious. He knows the stakes are high if fails, yet he's still upbeat.

When Metal Sonic was the verge of submerging in to a pit of lava, Sonic stopped being cocky, and became concerned. He legit tries to save the machine that was designed to kill him. Because at the end of the day that is Sonic.

However, the difference here is, this is how Japan treats the character vs how America treats the character. Sonic films have alot of lowbrow humor and dumbed down jokes. This is a choice, not a requirement.

If the movie doesn't have the following Shadow line, I'm walking out:

"WHERE IS THAT DAMN 4TH CHAOS EMERALD?"

@Coolmusic oh, gosh, Anti-Matter strikes again... At this point he should just disown everything that has mature stuff, he'd just have a house & select books then. I wonder if he threw out his Switch because that has mature stuff up the yin-yang just in the e-shop, you'd think he'd toss out the PS5 which is known for having mostly mature titles.

@Pillowpants, I also have yet to see both movies, & the last episode of Knuckles even though Wade irritates the [Redacted] outta me with his constant whining on how his life sucks.

I'm certainly not as big of a Sonic fan as some people are but I enjoyed the previous 2 movies a fair amount.

But watching this trailer got me very hyped which I wasn't expecting! I think the films are finally becoming more Sonic as opposed to a fast blue hedgehog in the real world, if that makes sense.

@AmyTheBrawler-64 Shigeru Miyamoto? I mean I agree with everything you said, but it's going to be tough getting him banned from Nintendo.

@WaffleRaptor01 To be fair, I don’t think playing Shadow the Hedgehog — the internet’s favourite one-dimensional edge-lord — really demands much ‘range or versatility’.

In that respect you could argue it’s a perfect casting.

@Maubari The ARK is there, it's that thing rising up from the Thames. It's just not a massive space colony this time, more of a regular space station/ship.

@DripDropCop146 no, no, lol. Anti-Matter, he had me blocked so I can't read what he's saying. He's currently hating on Keanu just for playing mature roles like John Wick for example, I mean I understand if you don't like mature stuff but don't use that as an excuse to hate on someone for ridiculous reasons.

That user spreads negetive vibes all around every time & if I bet I read a comment of his, my handprint would be part of my skull from face-palming so hard like that one episode of the Amazing World of Gumball where facepalming was causing damage to Anais' skull from her x-ray scan.

I'd post a picture of what I was talking about but I don't think this site can do that other than gifs.

@Anti-Matter Why are you so against mature stuff?

@beltmenot
Rated M stuffs are evil and I hate them all since I have traumatic experience with those stuffs (video games, movies) in the past when I was kid.

@Anti-Matter That is actually very understandable.

@russell-marlow Sonic has always been quippy since Sonic Adventure 1, well before the MCU.
His first line in Sonic Adventure 2 is a quip about the helicopter he is being transported in having no food or movies.
I understand not liking it but it's been part of Sonic's character for a long time so it wasn't going to change here.
It's looking like this film won't be far off the tone of SA2.

@Orpheus79V Ohh yeah, you're right!!
It's possible that the ''nose'' Eclipse Cannon isn't even visible at the angle that we've seen.. or that it's able to retract itself into the colony!

@Maubari Yeah there's a shot later in the trailer with Tails flying out of it and you can see some of looks like moustache looking protrusions in the back. That's what convinced me this is meant to be the film's equivalent to the ARK.

I'm not surprised they'd make the ARK a bit smaller here. Given the relatively grounded world of the films so far, a moon sized colony being secretly built by the US government in the 70s might be too out there - so far the more fantastical elements have come from the "aliens" and not humans. The question is, what is it doing beneath London exactly?

@Frailbay30 "Had the orignal vision went through..."

But it didn't...did it....
Its cartoon hedgehogs that are sometimes snarky and sometimes more "teenage" themed. Still aimed at kids. That book you wrote is way overthinking it.

@Corvus96 Spoken like someone who's never played any of the more story-driven early 3D games. I guess if it's made for kids it should have brain-dead humor and no tension whatsoever.

@russell-marlow played them all, as they came out too. Snarky and teenage themed is pretty spot on. Maybe you haven't played the adventure games in a couple decades.