The Emoji Movie (2017)

Don't listen to the negative reviews

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

The Emoji Movie (2017) is arguably the best movie of 2017. It tries to be comedic and funny, while also having emotional depth. The final product has neither. What it does have is a poor script and cheap animation. The characters have little to no depth, and the scenes are not well placed. In the very beginning, there is an emotional scene between Gene (T.J. Miller) and his parents (Steven Wright and Jennifer Coolidge), before we know anything about the characters or what is happening. Most of the jokes fall flat. Also, this movie is basically a giant ad. Scenes include Candy Crush, Just Dance, and even Dropbox. Even the emojis themselves could be considered creative product placement.First, there are so many plot holes that the movie does not even remotely make sense. The emojis have to be scanned every time Alex (Jake T. Austin), the boy who owns their phone, wants to send one. Wouldn't it be easier for them just to have a picture taken and used every time? Alex can already see their pictures on the keyboard, so clearly they have them. Also, Gene and his friends are afraid of being "wiped" from the phone. Emoji come preprogrammed on every phone, so this would not even affect them. It also brings up many unanswered questions, such as: Why doesn't Alex just wipe the phone himself? What happens if he wants to use Jailbreak's princess emoji? Does the same world exist on everyone else's phones? And, shouldn't all phones with this software be having the same problems? In the beginning, when Gene panics and makes multiple faces while being scanned, it makes a strange-looking combination emoji. Then at the end, doing the exact same thing makes a cool-looking, animated emoji. There are too many flaws in the logic of this movie. Although other animated movies, such as Wreck-it Ralph, Trolls, Toy Story, and The Lego Movie, have successfully made a movie out of a product, those movies at least had depth and a good storyline. The Emoji Movie, on the other hand, simply states "This character is happy, that one is sad, and this one doesn't like the other two." Instead of gradually revealing the character's traits, this movie explicitly states them. One of its major flaws is that none of the characters change or learn anything except for Gene. The movie tries to have a theme of self-acceptance, but comes across as having no moral whatsoever.Overall, The Emoji Movie is an uncreative approach at making a movie out of something we see nearly every day, emoji. Possibly the only good thing about it is that it is available on Netflix. I don't recommend watching it, unless you have absolutely nothing else. Actually, even if you have nothing else, you might not want to watch it. This cheaply made Sony Animation movie is not worth wasting your time on.

I saw this movie to see how bad it was and it was a terrible, terrible mistake. This movie is basically what would happen if you put Inside Out, Wreck it Ralph, crap, garbage, and an iPhone in a blender, then put it it in the oven, took out the result, nuke it, then put the ashes back in the oven, and the emoji movie comes out. Do not watch this movie! Ever!

Need I say more!? The Emoji Movie is shockingly bad cinema; it's at its most cynical, most worthless and talent-less and non-creative husk from Hollywood's creative toilet. The story is EVERY goddamn hero's-journey based Disney PIXAR movie ever freakin' made except there's no surprising twist to the formula, no subversion of expectations (besides being more worthless from its already cynical circumstances); it copies Roger Rabbit, Toy Story, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, The Muppet Movie, Wreck it Ralph, The LEGO Movie, except its lack of originality makes it absolutely abysmal stuff right from the get go. Also, they aborted a potentially GREAT Popeye movie for THIS!? I can't believe it!The fact that this joke of a film was commissioned over one of animation's greatest heroes whom eats Spinach makes the existence of The Emoji Movie all the more painful in itself. They pushed the Popeye movie aside for this is just unacceptable: in every sense of the word; they commissioned a film based around phone icons over a cinematically PROVEN property like Popeye, which they could have subverted the values of the 1930s with a more modern twist, shows that Emoji movie was not only too 'easy' and too lazy an idea because it's ONLY a currently relevant thing that somehow got turned into THIS cinematic suicide.In the end this steaming turd won the Razzie for Worst Picture anyway; so there's that. It deserved it.P.S. Hopefully Sony Pictures animation can redeem itself with Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse. Doesn't seem they can set the bar any lower than The Emoji Movie though.

Whether you know about emoji or not, whether you're adult or child ... this is a great fun movie, the bad reviews are unjustified, watch it as you'll not be disappointed !!!