Kyle Vansteelandt
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When I think of animated atrocities, I usually think of them as very low budget wit badly rendered animation, bad voice acting, and one dimensional characters. The emoji movie may have a high budget of 50 million dollars with high production value, an all star cast, and colorfully cute animation. But don't ever let that fool you. The story treads into far familiar ground of "Wreck-it-Ralph" and "Inside Out"; for the wreck it ralph, nobody seems to like the main character for doing something they shouldn't be doing, so he goes on a quest through different places (in wreck it ralph, it's different games. In the emoji movie, it's different apps) to earn their purpose with some help of his friends, without the main character in sight of the other characters main home they will all be gone (in wreck it ralph, the staff are going to pull the plug out of the game to cancel it. In the emoji movie, the owner of the phone named Alex is going to shut down his phone and wipe out all of the apps), until in the end, he has to be himself. And for inside out, a human character is using the little emotional characters (in inside out, it's emotions that express's the person's feelings, than the human malfunctions with unfitting inappropriate feelings. In the emoji movie, it's emojis that is a modern invention on a cell phone that also expresses emotions, but the phone owner uses the emojis as a sign of what they are feeling, and the actual emoji is also a malfunction by making wrong faces). There is also a romance aspect in the film. That is how unoriginal the emoji movie is. But that's not all: The comedy is nothing but just abysmal filler. Every single moment of comedy is anything but positively funny; they are trying very hard to make this a laugh-out-loud comedy, but they've failed miserably because all of the humor is poorly executed; it's stale, dumb, embarrassing, annoying, utterly simplistic, unacceptable for a children's movie, some of the comedy escalated way to fast, and most of the comedy is rude humor that goes to the extreme which makes this an offensive bad-natured cartoon. The pacing seems a little off; with Gene, Jailbreak, and High five, there is an explanation about why Gene the Meh emoji is out on an adventure to fix himself as a real meh, but it's to forget why he is going on this adventure because one: the explanation was a little too fast and two: the movie tries it's best to be charming and entertaining which is very distracting. With the meh parents, the pacing is a little slow because of how the parents were talking which declines the high energy. All of the emoji characters has to stick with one feeling, even in terrible or satisfying situations, and that is very ridiculous. The crying emoji cries even when something great has happened, the laughing emoji laughs even when something catastrophic happens. Gene and his parents are meh emojis and they are the movie's main focus. The cast who voices them are supposed to be these characters, and these characters have no depth at all. How did that all turn out? it makes this movie so monotonous, flat, and dull. High five (James Corden) is an annoying supporting character; he spends the whole movie being a complete chatterbox that has a sugar addiction and barely helps out at all. The main antagonist is Smiler and she is one godawful villain; just like every character in the film, she is one-dimensional, annoying, bland, and the voice actor (Maya Rudolph) has to stick with one emotion to the character. Patrick Stewart voices the poop emoji. That concept destroys the magnificence of Sir Patrick Stewart and you will never be able to take him seriously anymore. Most of the dialogue really needs to be improved and so is the entire movie, and the only way to fix that is to not make this movie at all! It is a horrendous example of a family film. To conclude: my only reaction to the emoji movie was the exact same face of the meh emoji. Not because that it's "meh", but because it's preposterously disposable, soulless, stale, and annoying. Not recommended to anyone at all!
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MegaFuze
Here, my childrens is hell, the home of satan and uncreativity, this movie steals the stories behind other fantastic movies. The fact that they randonly thought of making a movie of a bunch of retarded lemon faces makes me question a lot of things. Such cash grab Idea, being one of the worst movies in history. It is funny how people thinks that childrens are just trying to be cool by being stuck in they're devices and using annoying emojis 24/7 dabbing, and doing more questionable things. just dont watch it, its better watching other movies than this (well at least in my opinion), But if you like it, well i wont judge ya, im not mad at the ones who likes it, just mad at the ones who just thought that making a movie of emojis was a great idea.
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Jonathan Curcie
The Emoji Movie was a fantastic, magical, and incredible cinematic experience. The character development between Gene and Jailbreak was on par with La La Land. The whole film reminded me so much of my great experiences with similar documentaries. I feel as though this masterful piece of art would appear on the Discovery Channel. The plot of this movie was absolutely astounding. I can relate to Gene in so many ways such as how I do not fit in with my Emojis. I was overjoyed with pleasure upon seeing the skilled performance of Patrick Stewart as Poop. I thought the role suited him perfectly. The jokes within this movie were as kwality as those found in movies such as Shrek 5. I would love to watch this movie again. I was saddened and disappointed in Rotten Tomatoes for giving this movie such a poor review. I feel personally attacked by reviews such as those. In my definitely factual opinion, I would easily give this movie a 10000000000000000/9. I feel as though I underestimated this movie. As the great JacksFilms once said "As funny the 50th time, as the first time.". The only criticism that I bring my self to say about this movie was that there were 0 "dab" emojis.
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