I don't remember if the original movie was better but I do remember there was a spate of remakes of 80s action movies that completely missed the mark in this way. Like the 80s RoboCop is extremely clear that the corporation making the RoboCops is completely evil, and the merger of corporate power and the state is horrifically dangerous, and being a cop takes away your humanity and makes you a machine for the evil side.

Then they remade it and it was just a movie about a cool cop who's a robot and he shoots the bad guys.

Sonic seems to be really keyed into their fanbase and seems to be the only media capable of being in on the memes without ruining them.

I could even see a "Shadow the Hegehog fucked my wife" reference made.