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Sonic the Hedgehog 2
(2022)
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Composed, Co-Orchestrated, and Produced by:

Co-Orchestrated and Conducted by:
Edward Trybek

Co-Orchestrated by:
Jonathan Beard
Henri Wilkenson

Additional Music by:
Dallin Burns
Ching-Shan Chang
Jack Roberts
Tyler Westen
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LABEL & RELEASE DATE
Paramount Music / La-La Land Records
(April 5th, 2022)
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Commercial digital release. The CD is limited to 2,000 copies and available initially for $17 through soundtrack specialty outlets.
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Buy it... if you enjoyed Tom Holkenborg's score for the preceding film so thoroughly that you can forgive a largely synthetic follow-up just to hear additional development of the same thematic base.

Avoid it... if you cannot tolerate obviously sampled children's action scores or hoped that Holkenborg would be allowed to return the style of the music to that of the video game.
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FILMTRACKS TRAFFIC RANK: #2,017
WRITTEN 5/7/22
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2: (Tom Holkenborg) After becoming the highest-grossing film ever to be based upon a video game adaptation, 2020's Sonic the Hedgehog was destined to spawn a tiresome franchise to the delight of mindless audiences. When Sonic the Hedgehog 2 arrived in 2022, it quickly dethroned its predecessor as the new, highest-grossing video game adaption in big-screen history. That distinction wasn't earned with intelligence, the plot of the sequel continuing the battle between the titular, anthropomorphic blue hedgehog and his evil nemesis, Dr. Robotnik. But, as expected for the seemingly obligatory merchandising interests, a number of additional characters from the game concept must be introduced in the sequel as well, with two more such devious creatures sharing the spotlight with Sonic in Sonic the Hedgehog 2. While in some cases they are adversaries at the start, these bizarre little entities of varying superhero powers team up to defeat the villainous human and his robotic terror. With a familiar cast and crew, the movie was primed to provide Paramount with ample options for milking in the future. The soundtrack for the sequel is squarely the domain of parody, a variety of song placements on screen joined by snippets of film score references ranging from Christophe Beck's Ant-Man and the Wasp to Randy Newman's The Natural. Figuring in between that mashup is Tom Holkenborg, who returns to provide another score for the concept. The electronica and vintage synthesizer enthusiast had originally wanted to steer the first film's music towards Masato Nakamura's cheesy music for the famed video game, but the filmmakers opted for more traditional, symphonic music. Holkenborg still managed to sneak some vintage Yamaha tones into Sonic the Hedgehog, but that opportunity did not await him in the second venture. In fact, absolutely none of that personality survives. Whereas the composer was more centrally involved in the initial picture's score, his team for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is much larger, adopting the more traditional Hans Zimmer methodology of tossing a group of ghostwriters at the task while defining the themes and production parameters of the score. Listeners hoping for more loyalty to the game's music will instead receive an even more generic film score this time.


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TRACK LISTINGS
Total Time: 57:23
• 1. Piece of Shiitake Planet (2:50)
• 2. Blue Menace (2:28)
• 3. Mind if I Drive (2:06)
• 4. Sonic's Home (1:18)
• 5. A Wachowski Family Special (3:15)
• 6. Sonic, Meet Knuckles (2:48)
• 7. Papa's Got a Brand New Stache (1:53)
• 8. The Master Emerald (2:40)
• 9. So You Think You Can Pivonka (2:14)
• 10. Goodnight, Tails (2:09)
• 11. Ages Ago (2:50)
• 12. You Know Nothing About Me (2:54)
• 13. Operation Catfish (3:34)
• 14. Eureka, I Found It (2:45)
• 15. Gotta Go Fast (1:46)
• 16. Entering the Labyrinth (1:59)
• 17. You Don't Have to Be Alone Anymore (3:10)
• 18. Sinister (3:37)
• 19. Team vs Robotnik (3:36)
• 20. Okay, We're Not Friends (3:38)
• 21. A New Order (2:51)
• 22. Dad (1:02)

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