Saw the movie earlier today, it's alright but I genuinely think the first one had a better identity of it's own with how it tried to depict Sonic and Robotnik's origins differently.
Main issue I have with it is how it focuses on putting in as much game fanservice as possible rather than trying to explain/expand on possible lore stuff alluded to in the first movie, like Longclaw's fate. Unless I missed something, Longclaw was implied to have been captured by Knuckles' tribe and they went on to fight somewhere else, but Knuckles being the last one of his kind is never elaborated on properly, neither is that whole owls vs. echidna's bit to give Sonic something to wonder about Longclaw's past, Tails mentions a home planet and that never gets asked further about by Sonic when he brings it up and their friendship bonding is as basic as you expect it to be from the games' continuity.
I also legit thought that when Sonic and Tails got captured by GUN and 2 black woman went to save them that the movie got hijacked for 15 minutes and turned into a stereotypical black people comedy movie routine ala Big Momma's House. And who were those 3 Arbiter-looking dudes passing through the portal on the mushroom planet Robotnik Home Alone'd before he encountered Knuckles? Don't seem like echidna's to me.
TL'DR: Decent follow-up to the first film and alright if only caring for fanservice to the games rather than hoping for actual plot.
Legit sad we got Edge instead of Metal Sonic tho
