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There are certainly worse movies, but i think the hate was justly rooted in something deeper. The movie represented everything wrong with Hollywood, banking on cheap, uncreative, and cliched ideas while trying to justify its existence by throwing buzzwords, references, and celebrity voices. It was the ultimate demonstration of the disconnect between studios and audiences.

My main gripe about the movie is that the message is "Be yourself! :)" but Jailbreak reverts back to being a princess emoji at the end instead of having the appearance and personality she had forged for herself.

“Out of nowhere, an ad of Candy Crush right in the middle of your viewing experience. Such disrespect for art, truly disgusting.” “This video is brought to you by NordVPN” *LMAO I love it*

The film does have one really creative moment where the parents have a conversation inside the photos in the phone. Like, the photos are actual sets they can walk around in, and interact with. I though that was neat.

It says a lot about how much everyone hated this movie that my history teacher from the time, who was a very chill guy overall, said he saw it over the weekend and went on a rant about how much it sucked with the entire class cheering him on.

This movie was doomed by concept alone. I remember quite vividly, walking with my sister, an actual child at the time, in Walmart, and saying, "Oh did you hear? They're making an emoji movie." She looked at me like I had sprouted antlers. "That's _stupid."_ Couldn't fool her. She saw right through Sony's hollow, How Do You Do Fellow Kids, cash grab.

A show I felt handled trolls VERY well was an episode of Wander Over Yonder. "Don't feed the troll" worked literally as well as figuratively with not providing mean people with the negativity they feed off of

The other thing with the scans is that Gene has no reason to not express himself as much as he wants, he only has to "meh" in the brief time it takes to get scanned.

It’s been 5 years and I still can’t believe somebody actually made a mainstream movie based off of *Emojis.*

No, we're not harsh enough. Double down, don't settle for mediocrity.

I particularly liked where he said "It's Emojin' time" and then he just Emoji'd all over those guys.

My sister said if you explain the plot in the right way it sounds like a really good dystopian horror movie.

The LEGO Movie is also basically a commercial but unlike the emoji movie, it holds up because it's easy to get immersed in the lego world. Making the legos just be the setting and world we're in works because they can fade into the background while the story and characters take precedence over them.

So for the question of "why are there trolls inside the phone?" i'm going to guess that the people who wrote this movie assumed trolls and bots are the same thing.

According to CinemaSins, the best part of the movie takes place in the _Just Dance_ app. _Just Dance_ isn't a smartphone-compatible game.

Man, that Twitter scene really hits different now.

Problem is, the movie tried to hide its disgusting product placement with something that everyone used: emojis. Emojis are free, compatible and easy to use, but Sony decided to use that as a leverage to target kids (let's be honest, most of the viewers were kids) to buy/play whatever games/products the respective companies were willing to pay them to be blatantly advertised. Not only was the movie subpar in general, but its shameless corporate decision to market their movie as a kid-friendly flick but shove a whole bunch of shady advertisements only adults will pickup is what made people hate it.

I'm still so surprised that, literally an entire year after this movie came out, we got what might just be one of the greatest animated movies of all time in Into the Spider-Verse. And after that, it's like the gates for stylized animated movies were just flung right open. If that's not one hell of a redemption arc for a studio then I don't know what is.

I can't believe they thought emotions having emotions was a good idea.

When I first watched this movie I actually forgot like three different types that the main emoji was a 😐 emoji. I keep thinking he was a 😁 emoji

Gonna be honest, I didn't think it was THAT bad, just incredibly mediocre and lazy. Otherwise it wasn't horrible, just a generic movie.

I think the irony in this movie is that Sony actually had a pretty decent opportunity to make a movie about mental health and how kids often use their phones to escape from their problems. Instead of actually making a good movie that talks about those issues in a healthy way, we instead just got a bunch of corporate shilling with a generic kids movie story to boot.

9:19 HOLY SHIT I NEVER REALIZED SHE HAD A BODY

Sorry that one part is just " my grandma just died..." and the other one "🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥" like i cant sop laughing 🥲 5:37

If this movie was released today there is no doubt that the nerd emoji would’ve played a role here

I watched The Emoji Movie drunk one night in hopes of getting laughs because even some of the worst movies I'd ever seen were funny while drinking. I have never been so angry and furious, character motivations and so much more just drove me to fury. I don't think I'd have been as upset if I were sober, but even then I'd not say it was good. It was unpleasant, but not the worst thing ever. Just irritating.

I feel like this movie could have done better if they it more like Sausage Party (Emoji Party)? Maybe have a message about social media addiction, how emojis are essentially a symptom of not being able to communicate with people the "traditional" way, and you could also make jokes about a lot of our apps are pretty much just legal spyware with how much data they collect. However, I think that may be too on the nose for their sponsors.

I feel that this movies downfall was the fact that this entice movie was an hour long add, it explains how to use Candy Crush, shows how strong the firewall is, and also has just dance ( where the characters have to play the game ) and lastly, they go through the music apps, and explain how many nice songs that are in the app.

No, the context of the time is important. Sony Pictures Animation was then at the peak of mistreating its creators, especially folks like Gendy Tartakovsky over his Popeye film. Some time after Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Sony just gave up and made a mountain of trash. If not for the backlash, you never would have gotten the Into the Spiderverse that we got.

In my animation classes, we talk about the balance between familiarity and novelty. I feel like we can tell when a movie is purely made for a cash grab when it’s made based on familiarity alone. Without the originality and creativity of novelty, there is no heart or unique voice behind it.

3:19 "Like can you imagine that? watching this video and then BAM! outa nowhere an ad for NordVPN right in the middle of your viewing experience, such disrespect for art"

I remember watching the Emoji Movie for the first time. I had begged my mother to let me rent it from the local CVS Redbox. I sat on her bed by myself and I loved it. The only part I didn’t like was the candy crush ad because it felt boring. Then I remember watching people review it and saying it was bad so I felt like I had to think it was bad. Even on rewatches going in knowing its bad I can’t help but like it.

Five years ago I had a gigantic hate towards the film, but fast forward to now I forgot it even existed, outside of some people bringing it up.

What I've never understood was, how is "princess" an emotion? It's an occupation, and while they're ate princess stereotypes, there are also ones that lie way outside the rules. You know who was a princess? Star Butterfly. You know who was also a princess? Xena. Kinda two very different princesses

You know what could have been a fun idea? If all emoji were a people, instead of a person. So you have a community of Smile emoji, one for Meh emoji, one of thumb-up emoji etc. And the emoji don't have a single emotion, that's just what appears on screen. When you send an emoji, you're actually sending an individual from that community to another phone. And each phone communities will be richer or poorer depending on the user and which emoji they use the most. So on one hand you can have your protagonist go from rich to poor and poor to rich by having him sent to different phones, and on the other you can show the personality of the phones' owners by showing which emoji they use more/less.

I have always loved The Emoji Movie, and nobody can ever change my mind!

I think the hate with the emoji movie is more to do with the fact that executives are more than happy to waste the talents of animators in order to make a quick buck. The people at Sony animation are clearly talented but it's unfortunate they were forced to work on a obvious cash grab.

We weren't hard enough.

The Emoji Movie is a cinematic masterpiece, truly the absolute pinnacle of human creation everything pales in comparison to this work of art. The plot is beautiful it has me gripping my seat for the full length of the runtime every time that it blesses my screen. When they found themselves in Candy Crush, I felt nothing but pure euphoria as Candy Crush is easily the greatest thing to bless the video game industry. The Just Dance scene made me get up in the theatre to boogie to the beat as I hoped that my efforts would be enough to get them through. Every time the scary evil emoji, Smiley came on-screen with her killer robots I was terrified, I was extremely scared and hoped that they would not get the good guys. The protagonists are the greatest to ever grace the big screen, with Gene, Jailbreak, and Hi-5 synergizing to form the greatest team of heroes since Paw Patrol. Gene is very relatable showing the audience that they can aspire to be whatever they want and that it is just everybody else holding them back from reaching their potential. Gene is an amazing character and the way he gets back up every time he fails is truly a work of art, his becoming a yellow piece of candy in Candy Crush was also very funny. Hi-5 voiced by James Cordon is absolutely hilarious, James Cordon is already a very, very funny man who gives me uncontrollable side-splitting laughter. In this movie, he is somehow even funnier everything he does is hilarious, and he clearly deserves to be in the V.I.P section at the start of the movie, and anybody who cannot see that is an idiot. Jailbreak is just another addition to the great characters seen throughout the film, her goals are mysterious and unclear, yet she helps Gene and Hi-5 on their honorable quest. She is an amazing hacker and super cool emo girl which makes the plot twist of her being the Princess so much better. The plot twist was the greatest ever seen in cinema on a level that has never been seen before. There as so many more amazing characters that I could write about such as Gene's parents but if I were to write about every good character in this piece of true cinema I would be here forever. The best part of this movie is the truly hilarious side-splitting humor, I touched on this briefly when mentioning the greatest comedian ever James Cordon, but I fear that I did not truly do the humor justice. Therefore, I will continue to write about the genius behind the comedy in this movie which is only to be truly comprehended by the smartest of all individuals. An interaction between the Poop emoji and his son is a notable example of this, Poop: Okay, Son, what should we do after the potty? Poop's Son: Should we wash our hands? What should we do? [They both start laughing] Poop: We're number two! Even while writing this, I am laughing, the genius behind that joke is perfect and every aspiring comedian should be taking notes. This is but a glimpse, a small window into the comedic genius and beauty behind the comedy throughout the film. The Emoji Movie is truly God's greatest gift towards humankind, we are truly not worthy of such a perfect gift as The Emoji Movie.

Saberspark: "Were we too harsh?" Me: "NO"

They could've fixed the inconsistency with the emojis and how they function simply by establishing that the world exists within a server that connects to all phones, rather than just the one. It would better explain how the Meh emoji could accidentally create a unique face that gets sent to other devices. Maybe change up the story to make Meh into a glitch similar to Penelope from Wreck it Ralph, and the conflict could be the Smiler emoji trying to use Meh as a backdoor to access the server and take control of it, or maybe some virus entity is trying to reach the root of the server to destroy it. Still a pretty cliche story, but has greater stakes since destroying the server would not only delete the Emoji world, but would also have an impact in the real world as well.

The inconsistencies with the trolls could've easily been solved by making them viruses. I know the scene is for comedy but I think it's just proof there was no care at all to make the writing seem smarter than it could be within the walls of its own rules and logic.

Good segue into your ad. I loved the art at the beginning. I'm becoming a fan. I like that you are genuine in your passion for this art.

I remember back when I was 3rd/2nd grade that my school who had alot of movie nights, had The Emoji Movie premiere during one of the movie nights. So I was one of the unlucky ones who had watched the full movie, and I don't even remember a single thing that happened in that movie but remembered that I had no fun while me and my mom were there.

I remember when this movie came out I had NO intention of watching it, but my 5 yr old nephew was SO excited to see it and really wanted to watch it with his "favourite titi (auntie)" that I didn't have the heart to say no. I spent the whole film cringing internally and exchanging pained glances of boredom with my brother and mother, (my nephew's tio and abuela, who he'd also convinced to come watch the film via 5 yr old cuteness and hard to resist puppy eyes). It was an hour and a half of my life I was never getting back but it was worth it for my nephew's happiness. He's 9 now and thinks the emoji movie is 'stupid and dumb', but likes to joke saying, "Titi loves me SO much they watched the emoji movie with me." The movie might be garbage and makes the animator in me die a little but atleast I got a sweet bonding experience/joke out of it 😭

I remember when the emoji movie came out my dad had a subscription to this magazine with reviews of the latest films. When the emoji movie came out, instead of printing one star out of 5 they just put a sad face emoji instead

This is the film that Channel 5 (British TV network that is currently owned by Viacom) decided to play during Her Majesty's funeral! Whether that makes the film better or worse is entirely an exercise for the viewer.

8:56 Everyone's reaction when this movie got made.

I watched this movie as a kid. It was the first time I ever thought "this is embarrassing, I'm too old for this" while watching a movie.

Katy did a brilliant job with the intro. The way she read it really caught my attention, and when the script turned to the emojis I died laughing

14:44 I had always thought they had like hacked into the phone and are just fucking with his shit WAIT A MINUTE

2:15 29 years ago XD?

I'm surprised you didn't mention the film it got compared to the most, The Lego Movie. I think that was a turning point because it made people realize that a film having product tie-ins doesn't need to be bad. If done right they can work organically with the story.

Hearing "Poop Emoji" in a dead serious dystopian narrator voice had me holding in a hard laugh, like I wasn't supposed to laugh or else 🤣

I'll admit that when I was a kid, when I saw the movie in theaters, I liked it. I even got it on Blu-Ray. But now as an adult, I realized how terrible it was, not to mention how similar it was to The LEGO Movie. And I still like The LEGO Movie to this day. I still have The Emoji Movie Blu-Ray, it's just sitting on my shelf, collecting dust throughout the years.

I like to think they made Spider-Verse as an apology.

I love how a movie meant to be relatable is mainly enjoyed by kids who dont have phones

“Were we too harsh on the Emoji Movie?” Considering what happened before the movie’s release, no. No we were not.

I love that LOTR intro you did for the video lol. Great video btw

This was better timed than Saber realised. He uploaded this 2 days after the Queen died and as counterprogramming to her funeral Channel 5 in the UK showed the Emoji Movie and Stewart Little, and were applauded for doing so.

I remember hearing the discourse online about this movie. In one of the few instances of "I'll see for myself" out of me, I actually gave the movie a watch (pirated, of course). I went in with as blank a slate as I could, gave the movie a chance. But from scene to scene, I just got more and more bored. More insulted. This movie wasn't the abhorrent amalgamation of sin some reviews had made it out to be, but it was just as pandering and insulting. Hell, the movie even starts off shitting on its target audience, gen Z, in the first 3 minutes. I never fully finished watching it. At the last five or so minutes when the dance party happened, I just shoved the phone i was watching it on across the table. I was freaking done. So, were we too harsh on The Emoji Movie? No. No we were not. It got everything it deserved.

The thing to me about this movie is the fact that they had this whole thing going with hacker girl, how she doesnt want to be a princess, she wants to be a hacker, thats her passion or whatever, but then having her return to being the princess emoji at the end of the movie is… just… off.

My sister said such heartbreaking, mind changing, world changing words about this movie. “I wish they would make another emoji movie but with the meme emojis, like the vibe check one” I feel like I’m super based that I wanted to watch Coraline instead of this movie 💅

The title: :D The thumbnail: I AM GOING TO PUT THE EMOJI MOVIE ON A PIKE

I like to believe the presence of trolls within his phone means the kid installed some sort of malware and he’s just constantly being spied on.

I really do believe that a movie featuring emojis could've worked. Like maybe we could've had a movie about two people who speak different languages but still want to be friends, so they communicate through the emojis. Until eventually they learn each others languages & can fully communicate with one another. …or something like that, btw I didn't just pulled this out of my ass, I remember a reviewer named Cellspex mentioned something like that in her video about the movie.

I like the funny historic part at the beginning

Looking back at it the whole "Girls only get to be princesses as emojis" really was a kinda weird approach of female empowerment, because I am a woman myself and I don't think I ever looked at a regular emoji (or smiley) in my life and actively associated it with the male gender by default. Emojis/smileys have always been inherently gender neutral because they literally just convey a damn emotion or a certain concept. Ironically this movie *itself* was the one claiming that every neutral looking face is automatically male and something needs to be explicitly female coded to be able to represent a woman. Because apparently something is only female if she wears makeup? I will not pretend like I remember what emoji selection existed in 2017 but at the very least regarding the regular emojis available the lack of female representation was a non issue because emojis didn't represent men either. Or was this about the professions? Where there already alot of profession emojis in 2017? 6 years is a century for technological development, I can't tell anymore

It is fascinating how Sony Pictures Animation went from making The Emoji Movie one year, then made Into the Spider-Verse the next year.

No. The fact that my country decided to air THIS abomination as it's first movie to be aired in cinemas across the country is enough for me to burn it with the flames of hell.

It's weird in retrospect how I have never seen this movie, but I have fond memories of it solely from memes and people like Jacksfilms spending 2017 clowning on it.

The timing on that NordVPN sponsorship was Pacha-Perfect.

I'll still never forget that Sony cancelled a wonderful looking Popeye movie, one that was going to be directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, to focus on making THIS! Honestly, that's where my hate started, and this was long before The Emoji Movie was even released. Then I saw the Nostalgia Critic's review of it later on, and just the fact that they scrapped something way better for THAT just because "money" made me angrier. I'd honestly would've rather had a beautiful movie that might not have made as much as they want, but had a giant amount of love put into it (as well as it potentially gaining a cult following) than a bad movie with WAY too much money put into it that shamelessly put product placements everywhere, was all over with their message and was just "Ripoff Inside Out but w/Phones" anyhow.

There is a severe lack of artistic value in movies. Did you really forget one of the MAIN reasons to completely trash this movie. Popeye was cancelled because of this movie, something that could have been an artistic masterpiece. I don't care how 'good' someone perceives it, the simple reason that Popeye was canned is reason enough. It wasn't just because it was a cash grab, it was because art was never created and lost forever.

A possible explanation for the trolls given the constraints of a phone: they could represent notifications to whatever the user of the phone may post or the like.

saber spark: i hate that they threw a ad in there. also saberspark: makes a ad appear out of knowhere

Wow, hard to believe 2017 was 29 years ago. Time really flies huh.

I like how Saber apparently forgot the whole part where the multiple emotions thing is genetic and he got it from his father, who also has multiple emotions but has hid it his whole life. (Which also pretty much throws out that whole theory Saber had about not showing emotions being a social issue)

At my school the guy who made some of the characters for the emoji movie (tony siruno) did a presentation and he brought up the emoji and added unfortunately at the end of it

Inside Out meets Wreck-It Ralph meets The Lego Movie

If they ever thought of having a sequel to the Emoji movie, it would most likely have TikTok and memes brought up in it. That makes me wonder though how many sins CinemaSins would give to the sequel then since, in the first one, he only gave it 279 sins(which is still not enough sins for that cringe-fest).

It was a nearly 90 minute long commercial for apps and product placement that was sugarcoated with a poorly written story - If anything, it got the right amount of criticism for its existence if you ask me.

I literally laughed out loud when you casually segue from Candy Crush to Nord VPN. Comedic timing confirmed!!

On a real note though, when I first heard of “The emoji movie”, I really didn’t think of it being that dumb of an idea, especially since other brands like LEGO, Sonic, and many others have gotten their own movies. I know Emojis are not like a toy company or video game, but it makes sense that they get their own movie since there’s such a huge part of social media or just our world in general i guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The thumbnail is everything

"Were We TOO HARD on the Emoji Movie?" No, we were not, next question.

First of all, I just wanna say that fart joke in the opening title was _perfectly_ timed. As for the Emoji Movie, the word "meh" perfectly sums it up. It's not the worst movie I've ever seen, but its probably the most thoughtless and cynical. There's not a single unique or creative idea to be found, in either the visuals or the writing. None of it is bad or incompetently made, but it's all so generic looking; every scene looks like it could have come from a commercial for an app, or maybe for car insurance. Mr. Enter summed it up well: character you design when you don't know how to draw telling a story you tell when you dont know how to write. Patrick Stewart as Poop was amusing, though. I could tell he certainly had fun voice acting.

I think that The Emoji Movie had zero chance of being good, and I'll explain how and why. Emoji are not narrative characters. They are only characters in the sense that "!" and "?" and "&" are characters. They're pictorial representations of abstract concepts, from clouds to handshakes to Belgium. An angry emoji is meant to represent anger. A smile is meant to be smiling, and so on. If you decided something like "What if the devil emoji actually baked cupcakes in its spare time, and enjoyed the music of Mozart?", that would ordinarily be a little bit of character development and a good thing in any medium... Except here, it wouldn't work. Why? Because in developing the emojis, you erode what they stand for. For instance, if I showed you a picture of Naruto, what would you think? Now, I'm not going to make a claim here about how good or not Naruto is as a series- that isn't the discussion. You would know the character and tell me all about him, or you would legitimately not know the character and you'd be unable to say anything. But that's what a narrative character is. Emojis are the opposite. If you have an emoji that's a hamburger, you know what a hamburger is, and it's pretty unambiguous. This is the reason why anything that hypothetically got adapted into a movie, whether it's Final Space, or Bluey, or anything else has at least the _possibility_ that it could be good, so long as the character exist to be characters, and to have a role in their own stories. They have fundamental chances, however small, to be good. I don't think The Emoji Movie had even this. I'm going to risk putting my foot in my mouth here, because while you can argue something like Batman appearing in The LEGO Movie may have been corporate shilling, and Batman got his own spinoff movie, well... Batman's a character, isn't he? That's kind of why it works, because despite all the "I'm Batman!" jokes, well... Yeah, they actually had to do stuff with him in spite of how we likely all know a lot about the character. So, apologies for a long post, but that's my opinion on how and why I don't think The Emoji Movie could ever have had any chance of being good, on account of character development working against its core concept. Doing a movie on almost anything would ordinarily never hurt it to try and flesh out and develop its characters, whether it's Paw Patrol or Bob's Burgers or whatever else. But here, it does, and I would claim it's extremely conceited and arrogant for anyone with a creative soul and artistic integrity to have ever thought The Emoji Movie could have worked.

Saberspark: how dare they use a ad in the middle of a movie Also saberspark: this videos sponsored by nordvpn

I honestly don't see why people disliked this movie so much, I've seen it myself and it's not even that bad, there's nothing that makes the movie too dislikable so why did everyone reject it....?

The movie was the embodiment of "Children are dumb, and don't have any taste anyway." Or a 10-degree riff on those "parody" movies that were basically a series of "thing that you heard of recently! Laugh!" references. Not only do kids deserve better, so do the adults who have to take them to these things.

In all seriousness, its less about the movie itself and more what it represented. It represented the bottom of the barrel laziness of Sony to make a movie based on emojis of all things and trying desperately to appeal to the youngins without thinking about making a good movie first.

Inside Out meets Wreck-It Ralph meets The Lego Movie meets Trolls meets Toy Story meets Sausage Party meets Soul

Inside Out meets Wreck-It Ralph meets The Lego Movie meets Trolls meets Toy Story meets Sausage Party meets Spongebob meets WALL-E meets Tangled meets The Lorax

The troll part could have been framed differently, and maybe been somewhat more believable. If instead of supposedly being literal trolls, it would make more sense if they were chat messages by trolls. Wait, why am I trying to fix this dumpsterfire?

I took an online class with an animator from Sony. Obviously they couldn't say anything because of NDA. But we asked if they were working on the Emoji Movie. The utter pain in that poor individual's face was enough of an answer.

If you’re under 0 years of age, this movie is a must watch!

It's Pixar meets Dreamworks meets Illumination meets Warner Bros

I mean Hotdiggetydemon pointed out that many negative reviews were destructive rather than constructive. Plus he did write up an idea for how they could’ve made a film about Emoji’s work.