The Sonic the Hedgehog film series keeps getting bigger, bolder and better with each installment, and if the post-credits scene for "Sonic the Hedgehog 3" is any indication, Paramount has no intention of stopping. And honestly? It shouldn't. As I noted in my review of sonic the hedgehog 3 this franchise might as well be the Fast & Furious for kids and millennials who grew up playing the original Sonic video games. If the creative team behind these films want to continue for years to come, we need to stand back and let it happen.

Now that the Sonic movie universe has built in tails (my fav boy)Knuckles and Shadow, the films move further and further away from the living world of Green Hills, Montana and the alien lands depicted in the Sonic video games (Note: There have been nearly 150 Sonic the Hedgehog games since release). The most important man in the series, arguably, is Jim Carrey's hilarious portrayal of Dr. Ivo Robotnik aka Dr. Eggman, a role he established in the first film and almost didn't return to for Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Thankfully, not only did he return to play the role, but he also pulled double duty playing Ivo and his grandfather Gerald.

In one of the film's best scenes, Ivo and Gerald prepare to break into a confidential area blocked off by a laser security net. But after realizing that the special suits Ivo has invented are completely immune to lasers, Ivo and Gerald make the most of their trip down the hall with an elaborate dance sequence. It's hard enough for a production to film a dance sequence effectively, but it's quite another when the two dancers are played by the same actor, and laser beams bounce off them with every move. But according to director Jeff Fowler, the dance sequence, right down to the song choice, was Carey's idea.

Fowler talked about the scene with A polygonnoting that the dance was a way to come full circle from the first film, as well as something Carrey really wanted as part of his return to the franchise. As he explained:

“In our early conversations, that was one of Jim's requests. In the first (Sonic the Hedgehog movie), there's a moment when Robotnik is in his lab and thinks he's alone. He puts on music ("Where Evil Grows" by the Poppy Family) and he just starts dancing. There's a little dance party, and then (his assistant) Stone interrupts. And so Jim wanted us to dance again, of course we didn't. we just had to make him dance, we had to go big, and really go for it.

Go big they did. The dance sequence looks like something Carey would have pulled off during his 1990s heyday; it's an explosion of physical comedy, face contortion and dedication to something harder than anyone could have expected. It was Carey's idea to have both robots dance to "Galvanize" by The Chemical Brothers, which includes the phrase "Don't Hold Back" on repeat, making it the perfect inclusion. The Sonic team brought in choreographers and a dance crew to make it all work. "Of course, Jim wanted to do everything he could, but there was no way he could do everything, especially since he was dancing with himself," Fowler noted. "So there's always going to have to be another person there, dancing with him, who then becomes a substitute person in the line."

Fowler also said that getting it right was a bit of trial and error when it came to installing the lasers, but is extremely proud of the work from all the different teams that helped pull it off. "I think we've all seen sequences with laser nets and grids where people have to navigate them," he said. "But the idea of ​​just dancing through it — it was so Jim Carrey, so perfect and really fun to execute."