Blog:Star Boogie

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Star Boogie is a 2007 American-Japanese live-action/animated sports comedy film starring baseball player Albert Pujols and featuring Sonic the Hedgehog characters. The film was produced by Joe Medjuck, Daniel Goldberg, and Ivan Reitman, and directed by Jeff Fowler. It is based on a series of advertisements for Fielding Pujols, which featured Pujols and Sonic playing baseball. Wayne Knight, Theresa Randle, and Yuji Naka appear in supporting roles, while Jason Griffith, Dan Green, and Lisa Ortiz headline the voice cast. Star Boogey was the first live-action feature film to be based on a Sega video game and was released theatrically in the United States on December 8, 2007, by Paramount Pictures.

Star Boogie presents an alternate history of what happened between Pujols' new contract in 2004 and his first career World series ring in 2006, in which he is enlisted by Sonic the Hedgehog and his friends to help them win a basketball match against a group of aliens who want to enslave them for their amusement park.

A standalone sequel, titled Star Boogie: A New Legacy, was released on August 21, 2021.

Plot
Jugernut (Danny DeVito), an evil alien theme park owner, needs a new attraction at Moron Mountain. When his gang, the Nimcobots, heads to Earth to kidnap Sonic the Hedgehog (Jason Griffith) and his friends, Sonic challenges them to a baseball game to determine their fate. The aliens agree, but they steal the powers of MLB baseball players, including Joe Beimel and Doug Brocail -- so Sonic gets some help from superstar Albert Pujols.

Why It’s A Boogie

 * 1) The idea of a Sonic film about the Sonic characters meeting a real-life baseball player (Albert Pujols) and going on a baseball game, and going on a boogie as the characters face a legitimate threat against them all together is a pretty original and good idea for a Sonic the Hedgehog movie, and it was very nicely executed in this movie.
 * 2) The movie has a nice sense of humor.
 * 3) The animation is very detailed and smooth for both Sonic and new characters that rivals Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Some can argue that the traditional animation looks better here than in "Star Boogie: A New Legacy."
 * 4) The title "Star Boogie" is a brilliant title for the Sonic movie, and it fits the Sonic universe pretty well.
 * 5) The baseball sequences are incredibly well-made and choreographed, making the entire baseball stadium all in green-screen to fit.
 * 6) The Sonic X episode Unfair Ball shows the inspiration of the movie.
 * 7) Likable and entertaining characters such as Albert Pujols himself (Even though his acting isn't too good, see BQ1) and the entire cast of Sonic the Hedgehog characters.
 * 8) *Blaze is a decent addition to the cast.
 * 9) Catchy music soundtrack, most notably the Star Boogie theme, as it spawned an internet meme where it was mashed-up with other music.
 * 10) *Hey there rookie, come on do the boogie!
 * 11) * The song "I Believe I Can Fly" in the prologue is a very phenomenally fantastic song.
 * 12) *2-Unlimited's "Get Ready For This" appears here as well.
 * 13) A great guest appearance by Yuji Naka that later became another internet meme.
 * 14) The director, Jeff Fowler, did a well job for directing this movie.
 * 15) Decent acting for live-action characters and voice acting for animated characters (for the most part).
 * 16) It was faithful to the Sonic franchise and the Fielding Pujols commercials with Sonic the Hedgehog and Albert Pujols that promoted the movie.
 * 17) There is a nice Easter Egg cameo of Flicky, one of the animal characters of the Sonic series with an inside joke referencing Naoto Ohshima.
 * 18) The Robotz are awesome villains.
 * 19) The post-end credits scene where Sonic says "Game Over" is really funny!

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Albert Pujols' acting is not that good (unsurprising since this was one of his first acting roles). Foreign dubs salvage his performance, though.
 * 2) There are way too many close-up shots.
 * 3) The CGI aged very poorly.
 * 4) Some of the dialogue is bad.

Reception
Star Boogie received mixed reviews from film critics, who were divided on the out-of-place merits and concept of combining Pujols and his profession with the Sonic the Hedgehog characters, while many additionally praised the technical achievement of blending digitally live-action and animation (particularly the baseball scenes) and the faithful Sonic action. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes holds the film a score of 44% based on 82 reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "While it's no slam dunk, Star Boogie's silly, Sonic the Hedgehog's speedy and vivid animation will leave younger viewers satisfied – though accompanying adults may be more annoyed than entertained.". Metacritic scores a film a 59/100 "mix or average reviews." Roger Ebert gave Star Boogie a "thumbs up," which his partner, Gene Siskel, also gave the film, although his zeal was more subdued. Todd McCarthy of Variety praised the film for its humor. He also praised the Sonic characters' antics and Michael's acting. Although Janet Maslin of The New York Times criticized the film's animation, she later went on to say that the film is a "fond tribute to the Looney Tunes characters' past."

Star Boogie was a box office success. At the end of its run, it grossed $90,418,342 in the United States and over $230,000,000 internationally. It becoming the highest-grossing baseball film of all time as well as the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2007.