Paramount showed the first footage from the upcoming live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie at CinemaCon today, revealing that the movie appears largely set in our world and not the futuristic world of the games and animated series.

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Not only did the footage show the CG-animated Sonic in action and interacting with humans, it also revealed Jim Carrey as Doctor Robotnik -- yes, the movie seems to mostly refer to him as that rather than Doctor Eggman -- who doesn’t look as much like his game/cartoon counterpart as fans might expect. He's not particularly egg-shaped and he isn't bald (at least not in most of the footage shown, more on that below).There were two pieces of footage shown, the first devoted mostly to Sonic and the other to Robotnik, with the latter sizzle reel cut as if it were Robotnik’s movie and not Sonic’s. The Sonic footage opened on a country road as James Marsden’s small town cop, Tom Wachowski, sits parked, his radar gun waiting to catch speeders. And that’s when -- whoosh! -- a blue streak zooms past. Tom can’t believe his eyes.We see Sonic’s POV as he races down the road and through the woods. We hear him say “Gotta go fast” as Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise” plays. Tom finally catches Sonic as the latter is hiding inside a shed. Sonic just says, “Uhhh, meow?”We see Tom driving with Sonic in the passenger seat of Tom’s vehicle as Sonic explains that he’s here to save our planet. There are shots of futuristic (presumably alien) ships in the sky and then Sonic confronting other hovering weapons while making a Fitbit wisecrack.Tom and his wife (played by Tika Sumpter) have to smuggle Sonic into an office building, hiding him in Tom’s gym bag. But Sonic won’t stop talking, complaining that the bag smells like Right Guard deodorant and an old ham sandwich. The movement inside the bag and Sonic’s chatter get the attention of two bystanders as the Wachowskis wait for an elevator. They think they have stuffed their child inside the bag. Tom advises them that it’s not their child but there is *a* child in it.The footage ended with one quick shot of Jim Carrey as Robotnik. He looks like, well, Jim Carrey with a big, waxed handlebar mustache. He’s not bald, and is dressed in all black (trenchcoat, boots).After that Sonic footage ended, Jim Carrey came out onstage to jokingly present an alternate piece of footage positioning it as a Robotnik movie, right down to a title logo. This footage begins at the Pentagon where the military brass are discussing an energy surge that knocked out power in the Pacific Northwest. Despite their reservations, the military brings in Dr. Robotnik to help them on the matter.He arrives on a hi-tech chopper, flanked by a suck-up assistant. Robotnik quickly puts a uniformed major (played by Neal McDonough) in his place, and then we see Robotnik greeting Tom at his home (“Good morning, my rural chum.”). The two then have an exchange where Robotnik says Tom was bottle-fed but he replies that he was breastfed actually. “Nice,” replies Robotnik. “Rub that in my orphaned face.”C+C Music Factory's “Everybody Dance Now” plays over a series of shots of Robotnik, with Jim Carrey doing his slapstick routine. Robotnik gets a latte from his assistant, roughs him up a bit, but the assistant is clearly in awe of him.It’s not until the very end of this footage that we glimpse Carrey’s Robotnik looking a bit more like his video game counterpart with a bald head and a giant, bushy mustache. He’s in a post-apocalyptic, desert landscape. (It should also be noted Carrey really isn't doing any sort of accent or "voice" for the character.)While the footage's effects were not final, there was an awkwardness of the Sonic the Hedgehog design in "live-action" but it wasn't as unnerving as I'd expected. (Still, this design and its final presentation will surely continue to be divisive.) I'd be lying if seeing Sonic and James Marsden together didn't instantly remind me of the movie Hop where James Marsden hangs out with the Easter Bunny's son. The footage also left me with the impression the Sonic movie is meant more for 8-year-olds than 18-year-olds.In a chat before the CinemaCon presentation, Sonic voice actor Ben Schwartz told IGN his approach to the character was “the idea of this little kid that's going really fast, and has a little bit of sass, and a little bit of attitude, I bring that to the character in comedy.”Schwartz added, “When I looked at Sonic and I played Sonic Mania again right before, it's like this little kid that's so excited and moves so fast, and the script really shows that. And so, I wanted to bring that to life.”Schwartz also acknowledged “there were so many great voice actors that have played Sonic in the past for TV, so I just really wanna make them proud, and make the fans proud. 'Cause there's a very strong, lovely fan base for this. So I hope they dig it.”Sonic the Hedgehog zooms into theaters November. Until then, you can check out the top 10 video game movie opening weekends