I couldn’t stop laughing during the Sonic The Hedgehog 3 Dance Sequence and was happy to learn how Jim Carrey made it happen

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The following article contains spoilers for Sonic the Hedgehog 3so watch out if you haven’t caught the fun family movie yet!

If you have been keeping up to date with 2024 movie scheduleyou probably know about the hit release Sonic the Hedgehog 3 which has received a solid review from CinemaBlend and easily sprinted past the competition at the holiday box office this weekend. While it continues the story of the famously speedy hedgehog and his team, there’s one particular dance sequence that made me laugh, and director Jeff Fowler told me how they brought it to life — specifically with the help of Jim Carrey.

IN Sonic the Hedgehog 3Dr. Robotnick (played by Jim Carrey) meets his long-lost grandfather, Professor Gerald Robotnick (also Carrey), and when the two don special suits to sneak through a laser-filled room, a totally hilarious dance sequence naturally breaks out. I was so taken with the scene that when I spoke to director Jeff Fowler, I asked him how it all came together.

Apparently, it was actually Jim Carrey’s idea in the first place, as he told CinemaBlend:

It’s also one of my favorite scenes. Credit to Jim for that idea. In the first film, he had done the one small scene in his mobile laboratory, where he puts on the music and dances a bit and is then interrupted by Stone. In one of our very early conversations about film three, he said, “I want to dance again.” And I said, ‘Okay, let’s do it.’ So, if we were to do it again, we would go big and literally double down on the dance and have Ivo and Gerald make a duo. But it was so much fun to design it, to plan it. We had a great choreography team. We had amazing dancers. Everyone just brought their A-game and just delivered an amazing sequence.

Honestly, I’m not surprised that it was Jim Carrey’s idea to bring the dance sequence to life as a callback to earlier in the franchise. His moment in the first movie was super fun, but adding a dance crew to the choreographer, intense set design and having thaw The Carreys appearing at the same time made it even more over-the-top – so much so that I would willingly pay to see the movie again just to see this moment. i mean Carrey is notoriously practical with his rolesso it makes total sense that he would go up for the third film.

Carrey’s ideas for Robotnick and his grandfather have paid off. Before the film’s release, some critics said Jim Carrey stole the show from Shadow (Keanu Reeves) and that he was truly one of the film’s biggest draws for his “epic performance”. Plus, Jeff Fowler has said great things about working with Carrey on set before and how he always wants to work hard and deliver in his roles, and this time he delivered double the hilarity.

The film’s ending doesn’t give us a ton of hope that Robotnik (or his grandfather) will return, but Carrey previously said he was retired and then returned for Sonic the Hedgehog 3, never say never. Maybe we are lucky enough Sonic the Hedgehog 4 to see Carrey do another fun dance sequence.