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The Emoji Movie (2017), PG, 0 stars


Let's get this over with. The EMOJI movie is basically inspired by the LEGO movie in which studio executives were craving for a movie that can be making money from an actual product or a source from a product. I can picture their evil smirking faces with dollar signs in their eyes thinking they will have no problem for kids and families to watch and spend all their hard-earned money watching this wasted digital use. I will say to both kids and families that to please keep your hard-earned money because this could actually benefit your education and maybe create some new future memories such as a vacation or a family outing. This animated movie is the epitome of a creative nightmare that is at the bottom of the barrel.

We travel inside the world of a smartphone that belongs to a teenage boy named Alex (voiced by Jake T. Austin). The Emojis live in a city called Textopolis where each of the emojis are created to function as they were provided by their inventor and engineers. Gene (voiced by T.J. Miller) is supposed to be the "meh" emoji like his "meh" parents, Mel and Mary (voiced by Steven Wright and Jennifer Coolidge). He has multiple expressions, which makes him an outsider.

We follow Alex and as he gets a text from his crush, Addie (voiced by Tati Gabrielle), Alex tries to send her an emoji and selects Gene. As Gene makes a confusing expression, he wrecks the text center. Gene is sent to Smiler (Maya Rudolph), a smiley emoji who concludes that Gene is a malfunction, therefore, he must be deleted. Afterwards, Gene is chased by the bots but he is rescued by Hi-5 (voiced by James Corden), a once popular emoji that had his fame spiraled downward. Hi-5 helps Gene finding his hacker so he can restore his popularity again.


This movie stinks. It is a catastrophic product that reeks of predictable, excremental humor and then some. Here is what I thought coming into this: I was hoping that it could surprise me like The LEGO Movie did because I thought that 2014 movie could have been a wasted opportunity. This movie is a wasted opportunity and a waste of money because the money could have easily gone into donations that could supply children with educational needs and some more charity like providing food to the homeless. Here's the biggest problem with this movie and it is in the climax: Alex wants to express her feeling for Addie on the cellphone. So, Alex uses emojis to save himself and most importantly, Gene. (Well, maybe I spoiled a little bit of the movie but it does not matter.) So, kids, the message is, according to the movie, texting actual words and sentences are dumb.

This movie borrows from the first terrible drafts of Inside Out and Wreck it Ralph into a terrible movie of epic proportions. Now, I know you are wondering if the poop emoji who is voiced by Patrick Stewart (why?) is in the movie a lot. Well, no, because he is more of a side character but obviously, the script gave him to recite some of the most obvious jokes that a character this is named poop can make. There is no visual revelation, no fresh ideas of the digital world, no humor, no imagination and no memorable characters. It's an empty piece of paper that the screenwriters wrote dialogue that looked like it was done without any rewriting or great structure in a day. It is useful looking at a white wall for two hours and maybe thinking about your day, your week or your year than watching this. Parents should stay away from this and kids should stay away. It is without question one of the worst animated movies I've ever seen.

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