He’s great in it. Can’t blame the man, he gave wonderful performances.
That said, cash speaks.
To be fair, the trailers show him becoming an ally and dealing with his daddy issues. I can’t imagine them doing much more with the character, so this might end up being a sendoff.
In the games, Eggman has become an ally several times, but he always goes back to his plans of world domination. He wants to rule the world, so he’s not going to let anyone destroy it first.
Ah, last Sonic game I played was 3d Blast, so I’m not up on all the drama.
I actually loved Carrey in those movies, his berserk energy was perfectly suited.
Script, or check?
Maybe fun? That passage reads to me that he’s at the point of his career where he can pick and choose his work, and will only agree to it if he can goof off doing whatever the fuck he wants.
He does seem to be having a blast playing Robotnik in the first two
He’s even said as much:
I throw the spaghetti against the wall, see if it sticks, see if it’s al dente. I know the material, and then, of course I want to try it a bunch of different ways. Give the director so much to work with, so many levels of emotion, so many levels of cartoon. I’ll do them all night if they let me.
To me that is him finding it so fun he just wants to try each part every which way he can and find what works, because he’s truly enjoying trying it out because he wants to try it a bunch of different ways, not because he’s being told to.
Not “I have a specific thought about how this works”, or even “I know what the director needs from me”, but “This is so fun I want to be wild with it and see what I can do!”. Which to me is what makes Carrey awesome as Robotnik.
Tbh, he’s been at that point in his career for a long, long time.
I always knew Carrey was an Adventure 2 fan.
Still not as fearless as Nicolas Cage.
You have much less inhibition when trying to claw out of enormous debt. Glad that Cage has got his feet back under him.