Given the choice of seeing a man pal around with a hedgehog or a different, older man pal around with a dog, audiences narrowly chose what was just as narrowly the correct choice: the one with the surprisingly less wretched CGI animal.
Over the weekend, Sonic the Hedgehog made another $26.3 million, holding on the top spot over $24.8-earning newcomer Call of the Wild. The latter actually performed above expectations in coming so close to #1, but given that it also cost a reported $135 million, it’s not great. If only there had been a way to cut the film’s visual effects budget… some kind of, say, animal to fill the function of a fully computer-generated dog…
Birds of Prey dropped to third with $7 million, and Brahms: The Boy II seems to have just barely defeated rival boy sequel Bad Boys for Life, both taking in about $5.9 million.
The Invisible Man is the only wide release hitting theaters this weekend, but hopefully that can stop this reign of over-emotive CGI fur by providing something better to look at—like an empty space where a human could be.
