
This movie unlocks the never-before-seen secret world inside your smartphone. Hidden within the messaging app is Textopolis, a bustling city where all your favorite emojis live, hoping to be selected by the phone's user. In this world, each emoji has only one facial expression, except for Gene, an exuberant emoji who was born without a filter and is bursting with multiple expressions. Determined to become "normal" like the other emojis, Gene enlists the help of his handy best... (Full plot summary below)
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This movie unlocks the never-before-seen secret world inside your smartphone. Hidden within the messaging app is Textopolis, a bustling city where all your favorite emojis live, hoping to be selected by the phone's user. In this world, each emoji has only one facial expression, except for Gene, an exuberant emoji who was born without a filter and is bursting with multiple expressions. Determined to become "normal" like the other emojis, Gene enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 and the notorious code breaker emoji Jailbreak. Together, they embark on an epic "app-venture" through the apps on the phone, each its own wild and fun world, to find the Code that will fix Gene. But when a greater danger threatens the phone, the fate of all emojis depends on these three unlikely friends who must save their world before it's deleted forever.
Leave your thoughts about The Emoji Movie.
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderHating The Emoji Movie is easy, not to mention fun, necessary, and appropriate. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfA soulless endeavor and a painful viewing experience. Your kids deserve better. |
| AV ClubVadim RizovThere was probably never going to be a version of this film that would prove even remotely plausible as a movie someone felt passionately about making for artistic reasons; as far as expanding on smartphone-related IP, this is an even weaker starting point than Sony Animation’s recent The Angry Birds Movie. |
| PajibaRebecca PahleNo matter how bad you expected The Emoji Movie to be, believe me when I tell you, from the bottom of my heart, that it is so much worse. |
| Entertainment WeeklyDarren FranichThere's a justifiable self-loathing running through The Emoji Movie, a fragile attempt to (sigh) deconstruct the meaning of Emojis while also (sigh) demonstrating the profound possibility that Emojis are the language of the future. |
| The Age (Australia)Jake WilsonIf I'm not dreaming, I've just seen one of the boldest mainstream American movies in ages. |
| Kaplan vs. KaplanDavid Kaplan"The Emoji Movie" won't win any prizes for animation, but at least it's an adventurous idea that will appeal to a variety of people. |
| El Nuevo DíaJuanma Fernández ParísThe small-scale achievements in this film are a model worthy of admiration; In terms of the balance that can be achieved between creativity and commercialization in a production that seeks to generate family entertainment. [Full review in Spanish] |
| Film ThreatMatthew PassantinoThe Emoji Movie is so painfully lame and an 86-minute reminder that Hollywood could do better because your children deserve better. |
| VarietyOwen GleibermanThere have been worse ideas, but in this case the execution isn’t good enough to bring the notion of an emoji movie to funky, surprising life. |