The Sonic the Hedgehog movie first took the internet by storm when the initial trailer horrified audiences with its surreal Sonic character design. The backlash was so severe that the studio famously delayed release to give the hedgehog a digital makeover – a pretty huge and expensive feat. At that point there wasn’t much hope for the movie not to bomb.
But, surprisingly, the final product did alright. It’s brought in over $300 million at the time of writing, which on an $85 million budget is a pretty good success financially, and critically it’s done fine, with a middle-of-the-road 64% critic score and a fantastic 93% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
But perhaps the most unlikely of all the new Sonic fans is a hedgehog named Bandit, whose owner Jake took her to see the movie in theaters.
She rated the movie 12/10 and loved meeting her idol pic.twitter.com/BRd6F6joIW
— jake frost ☃️ (@HeyyItsJakee) February 23, 2020
Jake tweeted a few pictures of Bandit posing with a giant Sonic cutout at the theater, and the snapshots quickly went viral.
Here is some more Bandit! Her as a baby and her sitting in her favorite chair pic.twitter.com/xni3Ky3DnK
— jake & bandit (@Jake_Martin333) February 24, 2020
Some expressed concern at taking such a tiny little spikey-floof into a loud theater, but Jake assured his followers she was a-ok.
For anyone worried, hedgehogs have very noticeable ways of “acting out” when they are uneasy or upset and she was 100% okay during the entire movie. I love her + take good care of her + wouldn’t have done this if it would upset her as she’s my baby 🙂
— jake & bandit (@Jake_Martin333) February 25, 2020
All of the attention has made Bandit a minor internet celebrity, who now has her own Instagram account.
I never expected this tweet to be this popular but since it is I went ahead and made Bandit an Instagram that I’ll be updating regularly as well as here 🙂 bandits_hedgehog_adventures https://t.co/M3bOhOOj4s
— jake & bandit (@Jake_Martin333) February 25, 2020
She’s lookin’ good posing with other video game legends.
Amazingly, it seems that Bandit isn’t alone. TikTok user @swaggysteve69 (oh brother) also took his hedgehog – named Sonic – to see Sonic.
https://twitter.com/steveespinoza69/status/1228835804392247296
No word yet on whether anyone has dared to try to take their cat to see Cats.
Did you see the Sonic movie? What did you think of it?
Let us know in the comments.