'Honest, one of my biggest sources of pride from this whole processВ was that the fans were able to be involvedВ in this movie. They felt heard by our response,' Fowler says. 'I would not wish this experience necessarily on anyone, even though, at the end of the day, I really love that we engaged the fan base. The very public criticism has been painfulВ but fruitful for the director. This is the anti-'Cats'В scenario.'Д«oom! 'Sonic the Hedgehog': Defies video-game odds with a record $57M box officeДЇans revolt over 'Sonic the Hedgehog': All anyone could see were those too-human teeth in the first trailer ItВ looks like this willВ pay off as 'Sonic' is a nearВ lock to win the weekend box office. 'The fans said, 'This isВ not the Sonic we know,' and amazingly, Paramount redid it. 'Sonic' filmmakers learned you have to appease the hardcore fans,' says Jeff Bock, senior box-office analyst for Exhibitor Relations. Robotnik and James Marsden as Sonic'sВ small-town cop sidekick. The revised SonicВ (voiced by Ben Schwartz)В reappeared in a November trailer to (gasp!)В acclaim andВ will officially arrive in theaters Friday alongside humans Jim Carrey as the villainous Dr. Remarkably, director Jeff Fowler and Paramount Studios heard the criticism, delayed the film's release and retooled the pivotal character. Like the very blue Genie inВ 'Aladdin' and the freaky felines of 'Cats,' Sonic sped right into a social media backlashВ of loathing from fans when the too-realisticВ computer-generated creation (with conspicuously human teeth) was unveiled in 2019's first trailer. Sonic the Hedgehog,В the beloved Sega video-game character withВ lightning speed, had to survive hisВ harshest foe to make it to the big screen:В Twitter. Watch Video: Jim Carrey dazzles in 'Sonic The Hedgehog'

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