Random Movie Review - The Emoji Movie

In what is often seen as a rare occurrence where both critics and audiences actually agree, everyone hates this film. As for me, I also don't like it. I don't hate it, but I know that it is one of the worst films I have ever seen. But if I'm being honest, I kind of knew that it was going to be bad as soon as I heard of its existence. I mean sure we all wanted to know what a world inhabited by either emotions, video game characters or LEGO figures would look and feel and we got that from major studios such as Warner Bros. and Disney. Sony Pictures meanwhile wanted a piece of that action and basically gave us a film like those films, but about something that although very popular is one that many of us were not wanting to see. What made those other films work is that they are based on very popular things (yes emotions are popular too) and they actually had very good stories and great use of pop culture that doesn't take away the appeal we have to the main characters. So in what can possibly be the only time we reviewers can actually use emojis, let's see how 💩 this film really is:

So we meet this kid called Alex (voiced by Jake T. Austin) who has a crush on fellow classmate Addie (voiced by Tati Gabrielle) and one time during class, attempts to express his emotions via emojis. Within his phone is a world called Textopolis in which all the emojis live and reside in. One emoji in particular called Gene (voiced by friend of Deadpool, T.J. Miller) starts his first day as the 😒 emoji and is picked by Alex. But as it soon becomes apparent, his ability to be any emoji makes him a risk which soon becomes clear when he becomes a completely different emoji to just being 😒. And so he begins a quest to become a true 😒 emoji in which he meets one of the least popular emojis on the phone known as Hi-Five (voiced by James Corden) who wants to gain some much needed recognition and Jailbreak (voiced by Anna Faris) who wants to escape the phone altogether. But the only way for them to get what they want is to travel to the cloud which on Alex's phone can only be accessed via the Dropbox app and they have to go through a series of apps to get there while trying to avoid authorities called upon by the so called original emoji Smiler (voiced by the always funny Maya Rudolph) who wants to be rid of Gene's malfunction and to also prevent the phone's data being erased.

I know I may have spoiled it a fair bit, but to be honest I don't think any of us care about that. Yes it is a bad film based around a trend that is popular, but should have been left alone. Its too similar to some of Warner Bros. and Disney's far better and more recent works, you can get some laughs but not many and Patrick Stewart as a 💩 emoji is an incredibly bad move which no one would ever want to believe is real. Though I suppose it did do what Ralph Breaks the Internet didn't do much of in that popular apps like YouTube, Instagram and Facebook were explored rather than just a passing cameo. But sometimes that's actually OK. But yeah overall a pretty bad film, but certainly one where emojis can be the only way to express your feelings about it. 😠😡😣😤😥💩2/10