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The Emoji Movie

2017

Anthony Leondis

Animation, Voice: T.J. Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris ...

3.5

3,969

Animation. Kids. Comedy It 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Charles Bramesco The Guardian	"A big thumb down (...) Children should not be allowed to watch 'The Emoji Movie' (...) A film that feels as if it was dashed off by an uninspired advertising executive (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"The bad news is that 'The Emoji Movie' really is meh. There 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."	NEG
United States	Jordan Hoffman New York Daily News	"'The Emoji Movie' is a big steaming zero-star pile of crap (...) [It] shows how low Hollywood will sink for easy money"	NEG
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A very, very dumb thing (...) If not always imaginative or digestible, the look of the settings and characters should keep kids awake for 86 minutes"	NEU
United States	New York Post	"'Emoji' movie sucks (sadface!) (...) Please restore my eyes to factory settings (...) A new exercise in soulless branding, aimed primarily at little kids."	NEG
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"'The Emoji Movie' is very, very, very bad (we’re talking about a hyperactive piece of corporate propaganda in which Spotify saves the world)"	NEG
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"Lacks humor, wit, ideas, visual style, compelling performances, a point of view or any other distinguishing characteristic that would make it anything but a complete waste of your time."	NEG
United States	Katie Walsh Los Angeles Times	"'The Emoji Movie' isn't terrible, it isn't offensive or outright bad. It just is, and there could be far worse ways to spend 86 minutes (...) Maybe, it'd be the better choice to spend those 86 minutes outside, or reading a book"	NEU
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"The rationalization this movie uses for the anthropomorphization of the emoji is weak, to put it mildly (...) The whole thing remains nakedly idiotic"	NEG
United States	Vadim Rizov AV Club	"'The Emoji Movie' is 'Inside Out' crossed with a Sony commercial and dunked in toxic ooze"	NEG
United States	Scott Mendelson Forbes	"'The Emoji Movie' is surface-level entertaining (...) [It] is neither good enough to transcend its existence, nor is it bad enough to represent a nadir in pop culture cinema."	NEU
United States	Emily Yoshida Vulture	"'The Emoji Movie' had nothing to sell aside from itself (...) It’s attempting to sell a sense of childlike wonder and fascination with an ordinary, everyday object: your smartphone."	NEG

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