{"id":1072344,"date":"2026-01-22T11:18:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=499955"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:18:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:18:57","slug":"sonic-3s-incredible-laser-dance-sequence-was-all-jim-carreys-idea-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/sonic-3s-incredible-laser-dance-sequence-was-all-jim-carreys-idea-of-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonic 3\u2019s incredible laser dance sequence was all Jim Carrey\u2019s idea, of course"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the standout moments of Sonic the Hedgehog 3<\/em><\/a> sees Jim Carrey pulling double duty as two Doctors Robotnik \u2014 Ivo and his grandfather Gerald \u2014 merrily dancing their way through a classic Hollywood trope: the laser security grid. That sequence was not only technically challenging to pull off, Sonic 3<\/em> director Jeff Fowler tells Polygon, it was a scene proposed by Carrey himself \u2014 which sure sounds like a thing Jim Carrey would do.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn our early conversations, it was one of Jim’s requests,\u201d Fowler recalls. \u201cIn the first [Sonic the Hedgehog<\/em> movie<\/a>], there’s a moment where Robotnik is in his lab, and thinks he’s by himself. He puts on some music [\u201cWhere Evil Grows\u201d by the Poppy Family<\/a>] and he just starts dancing. He has a little dance party, and then he gets interrupted by [his assistant] Stone. And so Jim wanted to dance again. Of course, we had to not just have him dance, we had to go big, and really go for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carrey even requested the song that was ultimately used in Sonic the Hedgehog 3<\/em>, The Chemical Brothers\u2019 \u201cGalvanize.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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