10 Truly Awful Video Game Movies Sonic Might Be Worse Than

10. Super Mario Bros.

This really is the movie Sonic The Hedgehog should have its sights on. If it’s around the same level as Super Mario Bros, it could definitely become a cult classic; especially given the meme heavy era we live in.

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There’s no denying that it’s bad, but like Street Fighter, Need For Speed and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (all of which just missed out), it’s the good kind of bad.

At this stage, given a lame 00s era script, what seems to be a woefully misused Jim Carrey and hideous design, the good kind of bad is the best Sonic can hope for, and even that might be a stretch.

The Mario games have never really made narrative their central focus. With the move into 3D there’s certainly been better storylines, but overall the games (like Sonic) are about level design first and foremost. This left the film needing to construct a story from scratch and it was found wanting. The brothers were American now, and the plot involved dinosaurs, because why not?

With Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo in the main role (plus Dennis Hopper supporting as King Koopa), they certainly had the cast, but not much else.

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