By Emilio Frenk.
Director: Tony Leondis
Cast (Voice): T.J. Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris, Maya Rudolph, Steven Wright, Jennifer Coolidge, Christina Aguilera, Sofía Vergara, Rachael Ray, Sean Hayes and Patrick Stewart.
Rating: Poor.
Sony Pictures Animation brings another movie this summer from the genre and the movie is: “The Emoji Movie” and I have to say that the result fo this movie is less than satisfying.
Set in Textopolis, the movie tells the story of the Gene (T.J. Miller) a "Meh" Emoji that has the dream of being placed in a cube with the rest of the emoji´s that live in the smart phone of a boy named Alex.
One day after Alex tries to send an Emoji to a girl that he has a crush on. Gene is selected and the rest of the emoji´s discover that he has the ability to make multiple expressions. This will caught the attention of The Smiler Emoji (Maya Rudolph) the leader of the text center that orders Gene to be deleted, since she claims that Gene has a malfunction.
Now Gene will seek the help of Hi-5 (James Corden) and Jail Break (Anna Farris) who will help Gene to reach the cloud so he can be a normal emoji before he is being eliminated for good.
When I watched “The Emoji Movie” I had no expectations due to the trailers that I saw that looked weak with some jokes that are related to poop but that was it.
I was not wrong and I have to say that this is one of the most idiotic movies I´ve seen in a while and I cannot believe that a Studio like Sony Pictures Animation bet on something that not only represented a risk, but a huge failure.
The screenplay written by Tony Leondis, Eric Siegel and Mike White doesn´t make any sense at all and is not clear who the main protagonist is. Apparently is Gene, but then the filmmakers thought that it was going to be a brilliant idea to have Alex the boy as well.
The plot points are totally useless as the film itself. Tony Leondis with his directing and screenplay didn´t made his homework at all and focused this movie in children and he didn´t care about the adults.
In this space I have mentioned many times that for a movie of this genre to succeed you need half of children content and adult, otherwise you are heading to the direction this movie just headed: Instant Failure.
This movie should have never existed and it was not going to work. Just the fact that something is a trending topic like the use of emoji´s doesn´t mean the movie will work. This indeed proves my point. Honestly the emoji´s look nicer on your phone than in this movie.
I feel bad for actors like T.J. Miller, James Corden, Patrick Stewart, Maya Rudolph and many others shared their voice and talent to this piece of garbage.
I left the theater very upset and normally I can be very tolerant when I watch a movie but here my patience went to a limit.
I was surprised that even children were upset and wanted to leave the movie since they didn´t enjoy a single moment.
This is one of the major insults that I have seen not only in the genre, but for film itself.
“The Emoji Movie” is one of the worst movies that I have seen in the animated genre and please parents I beg you to think twice before taking you´re kids to watch this movie since it will be a waste of your time and money.