Blog:The Emoji Movie (my version)

NOTE: This is my opinion.

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The Emoji Movie (initially titled Emojimovie: Express Yourself ) is a 2017 American computer-animated science-fiction comedy film directed by Tony Leondis, written by Leondis, Eric Siegel and Mike White, produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. It is based on emoji faces, smileys, and graphics used in electronic messages.

The film premiered on July 23, 2017 at the Regency Village Theatre and was theatrically released in the United States on July 28, 2017.

Plot
Hidden inside a smartphone, the bustling city of Textopolis is home to all emojis. Each emoji has only one facial expression, except for Gene, an exuberant emoji with multiple expressions. Determined to become "normal" like the other emojis, Gene enlists the help of his best friend Hi-5 and a notorious code breaker called Jailbreak. During their travels through the other apps, the three emojis discover a great danger that could threaten their phone's very existence.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Many of the characters are either unlikable or have their roles slightly messed up:
 * 2) While Gene's intentions are admittingly decent, considering he still causes Textopolis to be at risk of deletion, he still acts somewhat like an antagonist.
 * 3) Hi-5 is admittingly a funny comic relief, but he has a loathsome personality as he does multiple horrible things:
 * 4) When Red Wagon asks if she can also come with Gene and Hi-5, Hi-5 pushes her away saying "Talk to the hand, Red Wagon!" which doesn't even make sense.
 * 5) In the Candy Crush scene, he does not listen to Jailbreak's warning about being careful because Gene could die if he is lined up with the yellow candies, and instead just does what he wants.
 * 6) While he does offer to let everyone else get back up, he later hits it back into the trash can, which is just cruel. While it could be argued that no one cares about the annoying trolls, other innocent characters also got deleted, such as Akiko Glitter.
 * 7) The "Hey, my eyes are up here, pal!" joke makes no sense.
 * 8) Awful ending: Everyone starts doing "The Emoji Pop" after Hi-5 demands that everyone do so, which is just cringeworthy to watch.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The movie is actually somewhat entertaining, as the plot can come off as somewhat interesting.
 * 2) Smiler is a decent villain, as she actually has a decent evil attitude.
 * 3) At least Gene saved Textopolis in the end, which makes him seem somewhat less of an antagonist.
 * 4) *In addition, the way he saved it was actually somewhat clever.
 * 5) As mentioned on BQ#1N#2, Hi-5 is a decent comic relief.

Critical and audiences response
After its release, The Emoji Movie was universally panned by critics and audiences alike, who criticized the script, humor, blatant product placement, tone, voice performances, lack of originality, and plot; many also called it "unfunny and a waste of time," and compared it unfavorably to mh:greatestmovies:The Lego Movie, the Academy Award-winning mh:greatestmovies:Inside Out and mh:greatestmovies:Wreck-It Ralph. Several major outlets called it one of the worst films of 2017 and also the worst animated movie.

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 0% ; it has since then been changed to a 7% rating, based on 131 reviews, with an average rating of 2.67/10. The site's critical consensus displays a single no symbol emoji ("🚫") in place of text. It has a 3.3/10 on IMDb and Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, has a weighted average score of 12 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike"; it is the lowest-rated animated film of all time on Metacritic. The film also received a 1.2 rating on Letterboxd. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale.

Chris Stuckmann earned this movie an F grade, explaining why he said he went to see and it sucked.

Trivia

 * Jordan Peele was asked to voice Poop; he refused, and he has cited this offer as the reason he decided to start a directorial career, starting with Get Out. It was given to Patrick Stewart.
 * Ilana Glazer was originally cast for the role of Jailbreak, but for unknown reasons, she was replaced by Anna Faris, who previously voiced Sam Sparks in the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs films, who coincidentally is also the love interest of the protagonist.
 * Coincidentally, both T.J Miller and Anna Faris also play roles in Yogi Bear; similarly, T.J Miller and James Corden played roles in Gulliver's Travels, released around the same time as Yogi Bear (both were even released on the same day in some countries).
 * The film was fast tracked into production by the studio after the bidding war. Unlike most other animated films, The Emoji Movie, surprisingly, took two years to make, as there were concerns that the movie would become outdated due to the evolution of phone technology, even though in the Audio Commentary cut on Blu Ray, DVD, and digital (HD copies only), the creators stated that it visually looked like it took 4 years to make.

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