Everything about The Emoji Movie is as bad as you would think it is. The people who came up with this movie should either be arrested for making this awful thing or be never allowed in making movies ever again.
I admit that I had no intention of seeing this film, but because my little cousins thought, for some weird reason, that it would be good, they dragged me to it. I desperately tried to keep an open mind thinking, "This may turn out to be like The Lego Movie. It sounds like garbage, but it may surprise me."
You can guess how quickly those hopes were dashed.
I could go into detail about the "plot", but if you've seen any of these "be yourself" kind of movies, then you have already seen The Emoji Film. The movie is predictable from start to finish, with no major surprises. It's inconstant as well when it comes to Gene and how he can't control his many emotions. Yet later on, he does so without any problem at all. What was the point of that?
Speaking of Gene, the characters are not interesting at all, and I never cared about any of them. Gene is just a boring main character, and he's not interesting at all. The so called "comedy relief" of Hi-5 is more obnoxiously irritating than funny. Then there's this lady named Jailbreak who acts somewhat like one of those feminazis on Tumblr.
The voice work is also pathetic too. Despite the great cast they had at their disposal, the actors sound so bored and uninterested in delivering their lines. Then again, the dialogue is ridiculous and most of it sounds like stuff no person would ever say like, "Play it cool, just send an emoji." Who talks like that? I really got to wonder how they got these people to even be a part of this mess, especially Patrick Stuart. Were they that desperate for a paycheck that they sacrificed their dignity to be in this?
The only thing I'll say to this movie's favor is the animation does look decent. Textopolis does look colorful and has some good attention to detail such as the old style emojis. It at least has some effort put into it, unlike this film.
What makes The Emoji Movie so bad is not just because it's a movie about emojis, it's because this film does everything so lazily and doesn't care at all. The script is wretched with awful dialogue for everyone. The story is nothing interesting at all. It's unoriginal in every aspect and has nothing notable about it.
The only amazing thing about this movie at the end was that nobody laughed, and most people left the theater (not that there were a lot of people) before the halfway point. Even my cousins, who begged me to take them to see it, realized how bad it was because they asked if we could leave a little after the halfway point, which we gladly did. They were at least nice enough to apologize for wasting time on seeing this boring, irritating, mess of a film.
And to think that THIS is what canceled the Popeye animated movie; which looked like it had more love, care, and good jokes. Way to have your priorities straight, Sony!
I admit that I had no intention of seeing this film, but because my little cousins thought, for some weird reason, that it would be good, they dragged me to it. I desperately tried to keep an open mind thinking, "This may turn out to be like The Lego Movie. It sounds like garbage, but it may surprise me."
You can guess how quickly those hopes were dashed.
I could go into detail about the "plot", but if you've seen any of these "be yourself" kind of movies, then you have already seen The Emoji Film. The movie is predictable from start to finish, with no major surprises. It's inconstant as well when it comes to Gene and how he can't control his many emotions. Yet later on, he does so without any problem at all. What was the point of that?
Speaking of Gene, the characters are not interesting at all, and I never cared about any of them. Gene is just a boring main character, and he's not interesting at all. The so called "comedy relief" of Hi-5 is more obnoxiously irritating than funny. Then there's this lady named Jailbreak who acts somewhat like one of those feminazis on Tumblr.
The voice work is also pathetic too. Despite the great cast they had at their disposal, the actors sound so bored and uninterested in delivering their lines. Then again, the dialogue is ridiculous and most of it sounds like stuff no person would ever say like, "Play it cool, just send an emoji." Who talks like that? I really got to wonder how they got these people to even be a part of this mess, especially Patrick Stuart. Were they that desperate for a paycheck that they sacrificed their dignity to be in this?
The only thing I'll say to this movie's favor is the animation does look decent. Textopolis does look colorful and has some good attention to detail such as the old style emojis. It at least has some effort put into it, unlike this film.
What makes The Emoji Movie so bad is not just because it's a movie about emojis, it's because this film does everything so lazily and doesn't care at all. The script is wretched with awful dialogue for everyone. The story is nothing interesting at all. It's unoriginal in every aspect and has nothing notable about it.
The only amazing thing about this movie at the end was that nobody laughed, and most people left the theater (not that there were a lot of people) before the halfway point. Even my cousins, who begged me to take them to see it, realized how bad it was because they asked if we could leave a little after the halfway point, which we gladly did. They were at least nice enough to apologize for wasting time on seeing this boring, irritating, mess of a film.
And to think that THIS is what canceled the Popeye animated movie; which looked like it had more love, care, and good jokes. Way to have your priorities straight, Sony!