11 Upcoming Movies That Have Ignored Massive Mistakes

2. Pointlessly Going The Live-Action Route - Sonic The Hedgehog

The Mistake

When Paramount first announced that they were developing a Sonic the Hedgehog movie, many quite rightly assumed that it would be a big-budget CGI animated movie, because why the hell wouldn't it be?

Then they dropped the bombshell that it'd in fact be a live-action film with CGI elements - and while Sonic himself would be rendered digitally, Dr. Robotnik would be live-action...and played by Jim Carrey.

While the Sonic design itself looks rather hideous either way, every gut instinct about this project says that live-action is absolutely the wrong format for it.

The Lesson(s)

Hollywood is littered with terrible live-action-CGI hybrid adaptations of family properties, with perhaps the most hideous examples being Alvin and the Chipmunks and also The Smurfs.

Both franchises failed to convincingly meld their tangible and VFX elements together, and the result was consistently nothing more than chintzy, low-effort garbage which, predictably, was eviscerated by critics (though performed relatively well commercially).

At least in the case of The Smurfs, Sony eventually realised their mistake and released a fully animated reboot, but the damage had already been done, and the movie grossed barely half of The Smurfs 2 (while similarly being panned by critics).