Here is my top 10 list of things wrong with this trailer.
10. Sonic is ugly and Robotnik comes off as cool. This makes it look like Robotnik is the good guy trying to save the world from this movie.
9. Sonic can out run missiles but not a tranquilizer dart.
8. Jim Carrey is a decent performer but he plays the same character in EVERY movie. He does not come off as the character of Robotnik. Also being evil turns his hair red for some reason.
7. Sonic says he has to save their planet. This implies Sonic is an alien. I suppose this would explain why he inhabits a world with no beings like himself, but it's stupid. I would prefer a world like Detective Pikachu where Sonics and humans live together.
6. The original Sonic games contained a sort of environmentalist message. Robotnik turned animals into robots, and by defeating the robots, instead of simply exploding they released little birds and animals held captive inside. In the cartoon he is shown to have a machine that threatens to turn the protagonists into robots as well. Here, the robots are just generic weapons which is boring. Robotnik has no motive other than to capture Sonic, which reduces him down to a Team Rocket tier villain.
5. There are no chaos emeralds. In fact other than rings there is nothing making it clear this is the Sonic universe. And rather than using the rings as a source of energy, he uses them as... magic portals? What the fuck?
4. Teeth.
3. Sonic looks WEIRD without any clothing. All he wears is shoes. Of course this is Sonic's original design, but as a cartoon it doesn't look weird. Since he looks like a human in a Sonic costume, it looks WEIRD and PERVERTED.
2. Gangta's Paradise is a song about being a gangster. It doesn't belong at all. Sonic has a rich history of music to choose from, they don't have to get the rights to this song. As far as I'm concerned they should have used
this. Or if they want something more mainstream at least pick something that fits the tone of the movie. For example Detective Pikachu choose the song "I Need a Hero."
1. Sonic is not an electric type.
I think they might actually be intentionally marketing this as so bad you have to watch it. I doubt that was their original plan for the film, because the footage doesn't seem to have any irony to it at all, but I think that trailer was edited in such a way that they must have seen the internet backlash to the original images, realised the movie really is as stupid as people are expecting it to be, and they're now trying to market it on the back of that. I'll be honest, that trailer really makes me think it might be worth going to watch it with friends.
I think you might be right. At the start of the trailer he says "gotta go fast" which it a phrase that has become an ironic meme. My guess is they are going to lay on the irony pretty thick but it probably won't be as clever as they want it to be.