@heehee2007

Sony going from Emoji Movie to Spider-Verse is the textbook example of a glow-up

@mackielunkey2205

I don’t think enough praise goes to the directors of Across the Spider-Verse, I was a little skeptical being that they were first-time Sony Animation directors, but they added a whole level of depth to each major aspect of the movie.

Joaquim Dos Santos- Worked on Avatar, improved the action aspect.

Kemp Powers- Worked on Soul, improved the quiet/conversational aspects

Justin K. Thompson- Was a production designer on Into the Spider-Verse, improved the aesthetic aspects

@DannoDraws

I grew up with open season and always remembered it fondly, only recently rewatching it and realizing how painfully hard it is to get through. Stellar video king đź‘‘

@casualfanatic4217

This is what happens when you let creators, you know, be creative. I’m waiting for Disney to remember this

@teddyobrien4801

The Emoji Movie had to have been a fundraiser for Spider-Verse.

@drereviews8868

The only thing I fear is that the spiderverse trilogy/series will be the only thing they have after it’s complete. I really hope they’re able to thrive w/o solely relying on these films and that audiences can have something to look forward to in a post spiderverse world.

@MasonProductions12

I think that the reason Sony has succeeded is because they toke risks, unlike Disney currently who’s only doing what’s safe and it’s failing

@MasterOfViewership

The Spider-Verse franchise is so amazing that we don't deserve it

@jonathansuber1551

Lord & Miller taking over the horrible bland and uninteresting Miles Morales story and adapting it for theaters completely changed how people view miles. They make him a extremely interesting understandable and relatable character as opposed to the blank slate that he was in the comics. The change was such a fantastic adaptation that when people think about miles they think about him from the movie not the comics

@steveplaceholder6522

It's crazy to think we live in a world where Disney is considered a low tier animation studio(I find the movies meh to good) and Sony/DreamWorks are held in such high regard

@Thyga.05

I feel like Spiderverse was a wake up call for Sony. They finally figured out that putting an effort into their product actually pays off

@ethejumper6568

Timestamps:
1:49 Open Season
2:23 Surf´s Up!
3:34 Open Season 2 (Great Footage Choice)
3:53 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
4:49 Open Season 3
5:06 The Smurfs
6:23 The Pirates with an Adventure of Scientists & Arthur Christmas
8:09 Hotel Transylvania
9:10 The Smurfs 2
9:38 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
10:16 Hotel Transylvania 2
10:36 Goosebumps
11:36 Open Season 4 (but it´s basically Open Season 2 again): Scared Silly
11:46 Surf´s Up 2: Wave Mania
12:31 Smurfs: The Lost Village
12:44 The Star
13:07 The Emoji Movie
14:29 Popeye Movie (Cancelled) and so on and so forth
16:02 Peter Rabbit, Hotel Transylvania 3 & Goosebumps 2
16:10 Into The Spiderverse
18:38 Angry Birds 1 & 2 Movie
18:54 Mitchells vs The Machines
19:16 Wish Dragon & Vivo
19:24 Hotel Transylvania 4 (Let´s pretend it doesn´t exist)
19:34 Across The Spiderverse
20:17 Ending

@juandalepringle420

Sony has gone through the biggest 180 of anything ever

@genericweeb3816

I honestly cant articulate how much i love spiderverse. Its perfect in my eyes. And im forever grateful to Sony Animation not just for making it, but crucially not milking the shit out of it

@joegreenwell5476

That’s so cool that Sony Animation has a slate for family animated filmed and adult animated films. It gets me so excited to see what could come from them and the creators they team up with.

@Ch1ssl

I disagree with the Dreamworks point. Yeah, 2 movies doesn't mean they're going to head into a renaissance, but it does suggest a change. In the interviews for TLW and Bad guys, the creators talk about the support they received from the dreamworks execs, and suggest more movies of that quality are in DreamWorks' future. 
It seems like after several years, Universal has finally figured out what they want to do with DreamWorks, where they want to build up Dreamworks as a higher quality and more experimental studio, while Illumination is their cash cow.

@onepresence9460

We’re definitely entering to a Renaissance Era for Sony Pictures Animation. They are giving creators and artists more freedom with their projects. Both Spider-Verse movies and The Mitchells gives me a good hope for the future of this studio (Even though i already love Hotel Transylvania and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs). 

Speaking about the future, i heard that Sony Pictures Animation will start investing into more PG-13 and R-Rated animated feature films. That’s pretty exciting. 2 of them will be directed by Genndy Tartakovsky: Fixed and Black Knight. I don’t know much about Black Knight, but i heard that Fixed will be 2D animated! Finally a 2D western animated movie in theaters. 

With that in mind, i hope they give another chance to Mr. Tartakovsky to finish Popeye and Can You Imagine.

@jeepmega629

In this time of original ideas being rejected and animation not being respected as much as it should, we need Sony more than ever.

@honeycomb170

Sony Animation probably has the most bazaar underdog story ever told

@A113-p9e

Damn. Sony really went on an arc like Miles in the first SpiderVerse.