I'm sorry. Do I need to be more specific?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitlelyq6t7p0?from=Main.SonicTheMovie
Read it. All of it.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BLAMEpisode
This article has a nice little insight for you.
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Sonic The Movie, sort of. While actually considered pretty good by a surprising number of fans, it has zero relation whatsoever to any other expanded media, or even the games (besides the characters) and
might have meant to have been part of a series. We'll never really know."
I swear this series is hardly Sonic at all. It just seems so thrown together. Believe it or not, SatAM has more in common with Sonic than the OVA. It has the basic Sonic v.s. Robotnik plot, the robot army that terrorizes the citizens of Sonic's home...
I still don't get why this is considered THE Sonic the Hedgehog movie when it has hardly any correlation with the goddamn source material. I can just as easily hit the restart button on SatAM, add in locations from the games that should have been there the entire time such Green Hill, Hill Top, Marble Hill, Labyrinth etc. etc., make cone head Robotnik have a bigger stache and a more well rounded head, replace Swatbots with Badniks, and make Robotropolis into a Chemical Plant/Metropolis Zone/Scrap Brain inspired world, and sure enough it would be the same show, but still be Sonic.
As far as I'm concerned if SatAM had done that the entire time, it wouldn't get the flak it does today. But now we have you guys defending a so called movie (read my lips: failed anime pilot) that had less correlation to the games than SatAM.
End of post. Argue with me all you want. I still feel that the OVA is an overrated piece of BS.
And yeah guys. If you think that I'm obsessed with SatAM being the best Sonic, you're wrong. I myself would love to have a reboot with more elements from the classic games and build upon the potential the show had. The pilot had a nice bond with Sonic and Tails, and that is something I would love to see happen in a reboot of the series.