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The Sonic Cinematic Universe is a film franchise based on the Sega video game franchise Sonic the Hedgehog, that was originally going to be made by Sony Pictures Entertainment, until they put the film in turnaround and sold the rights to Paramount.

Why The Cinematic Universe Speeds It Up

 * 1) It stays true to the source material, with really good/decent/neat references, such as examples include the town being named as Green Hills, the mushroom land being a reference to Mushroom Hill Zone, the board that Sonic uses as a table for table tennis is named as Hill Top, which is a reference to Hill Top Zone.
 * 2) The score from Tom Holkenborg is great, and manages to actually feel like it was composed entirely by Jun Senoue.
 * 3) The visual effects and animation is impressive, from Marza Animation Planet, Blur Studio, MPC, Trixter, etc, examples include the neon colored blur from the anthromorphic characters.
 * 4) Sonic's design, while not completely faithful compared to the live-action Smurfs designs and the live-action Yogi Bear designs to name a few, stays true to the original counterpart.
 * 5) The Paramount Pictures logo has a creative variant where the stars are replaced with the trademark gold rings.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Somewhat poor grasp of the source material. For example, (while not a big deal) Sonic's arms have no accurate skin color at all. They instead are covered in blue fur.
 * 2) Executive Meddling for the first film: Initially, when Sony Pictures Entertainment acquired the rights to make a live-action animated film as a joint venture between Columbia and Marza in 2014, they were originally going to make it into a crossover with all the characters in the franchise, written by Evan Susser and Van Robichaux, however in 2017, when Paramount acquired the rights to make a Sonic movie, Sony's original plans and ideas were thrown away which is saddening given that Sony's original plans and ideas had surprisingly even better grasp of the source material than the final product.