While there’s some good spatial reasoning between characters and their surroundings, the backgrounds of The Emoji Movie are positively flat.
Though there are a couple of sequences that flash some depth-enhanced thrill, with travels through the data stream and a poignant Instagram set sequence throwing in a little more flash than the majority of the film.
As such, there’s not a tremendous amount of depth to the picture that’s being presented to the audience, which is really a shame, as there’s a lot of potential with the location of Textopolis and its surrounding environments.