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The Emoji Movie
U (INDIA)
2017
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The Emoji Movie
Positive Reviews
3
Negative reviews
79
Average Rating
1.2
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nakedly
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1.5
As far as expanding on smartphone related IP, this is an even weaker starting point than Sony Animations recent The Angry Birds Movie.
Av Club
2.0
The plot borrows heavily from Toy Story, The Lego Movie, Trolls and others of their ilk, retreading the same thematic and narrative ground without eve ..
Den Of Geek
1.5
Its not even close.Indeed, the most distressing aspect about The Emoji Movie is that a spectacle this self evidently soulless no longer feels like a n ..
Indie Wire
0.5
Is meh the sound the world will make when it finally sputters out It doesnt matter because we are clearly #sooverit.
Austin Chronicle
1.0
Beneath its trippy surface lurks an insidious philosophy hazardous to impressionable minds.
Time Out
1.0
86mins A film as mindless and disposable as most smartphone apps and nowhere near as addictive Sonys animated The Emoji Movie is a calamitous comedy t ..
Screen Daily
0.5
Beyond that, hes neither lovable nor funny as it turns out, his personality is actually deeply meh.
Screen Daily
2.0
Thus, the emoji that can best describe this film is its very central character meh!
ETimes (TOI)
2.0
Thus, the emoji that can best describe this film is its very central character meh!
ETimes (TOI)
2.0
Thus, the emoji that can best describe this film is its very central character meh!
ETimes (TOI)
0.5
It is one of the darkest, most dismaying films I have ever seen, much less one ostensibly made for children.
Vulture
0.5
Wear a hat.But I cant really vibe with a flick as nakedly, brazenly despicable as The Emoji Movie.
Paste Magazine
0.6
The Emoji Movie is a demonstration of artistic abdication at its most venal, but will the kids like it
Rogerebert
2.3
But in the end, while The Emoji Movie manages to find some ingenious ways of explaining the daily life of an Emoji, its inability to deliver emotional ..
IGN
1.0
During working hours, they wait around on an enormous Celebrity Squares style vertical grid until theyre selected by the phones owner at which point t ..
Telegraph
0.5
As films like Pixels and Epic Movie have previously demonstrated, mere references are no substitute for clever humor.
The Young Folks
1.5
Its characters are weak, its story lame, and its purpose unclear.
Cinema Blend
0.0
Any kid will recognize just how phony it is to halt would be adventures to hear lectures about believing in yourself and how even more phony it is whe ..
Ny Daily News
1.5
The juicebox crowd is no doubt the demographic most likely to get some joy out of the films many emoji related puns and gags, but The Emoji Movie lack ..
Screen Rant
1.3
They just took Wreck It Ralph and rolled its video gamescape over into cell phone apps, stickers, games and emojis.But that cluster of screenwriters f ..
Rogers Movie Nation
1.2
The Emoji Movie isnt sloppy, spending a few bucks to bring its cartoon realm to life, but its as creatively bankrupt a picture as can be, merely creat ..
Blu Ray
0.6
Its a movie thats too bland for adults, too cutesy and juvenile for teens and pre teens, and too confusing for kids. In other words, its a movie for n ..
Mark Reviews Movies
2.0
This weeks films The Emoji Movie U, 86 mins England Is Mine 15, 94 mins Not many viewers of Toy Story seriously believe toys spring into action when n ..
The Times
0.0
Whod have thought it: a film based around the most shallow and crass of communication methods that is itself shallow and crass.Worse, it knows its sha ..
The Times
0.5
You can blast away all day long and never feel like youve gone too far.
Eric Ds Nider
1.0
Still, the animation is candy colorful, the pop music soundtrack is catchy and the dopey puns almost pass for wit.
News Review
2.0
Such shortcomings as routine animation and a plot that seems like it was being made up as they went along will annoy accompanying adults more than the ..
Radio Times
1.5
With its light tone and Day Glo colors, its target here is very young kids.
Screen It
0.5
It is a soul crushing disaster because it lacks humor, wit, ideas, visual style, compelling performances, a point of view or any other distinguishing ..
The Wrap
1.5
Yes, it fulfills its primary function of keeping kids in their seats.
Film Journal
0.5
Your time is valuable. So is mine. Youve clicked on this presumably because either for a fleeting moment, or perhaps longer you flirted with the idea ..
Hindustan Times
2.0
With its relatively brief running time of 85 minutes, The Emoji Movie provides passable entertainment for the children.
Hindustan Times
1.0
The ruthless mercenary details take the Emoji Movie beyond simply embarrassing and incompetent into something more manipulative and contemptible.
The Guardian
1.0
The Emoji Movie could in theory have been witty and sophisticated, like The Lego Movie or even the Angry Birds movie juxtaposing its apparently dumbed ..
The Guardian
1.0
A bleak, witless, creative wasteland of a movie that plays out like Pixars Inside Out dumbed down for morons.I dont think Im overstating things here w ..
The Guardian
4.0
The animation may be sub par by Pixar standards but how richly expressive can emojis be
Smh
0.5
Language is only as brilliant or as stupid as the person who speaks it, and Emojis can be hilarious or poignant or smart, can even be (as this movie p ..
Ew
1.0
Unfolding as a blandly generic journey of self discovery through a land of garish apps, the result plummets short of its aim to be a Wreck It Ralph fo ..
Flim List
0.5
But the cynical, painful and dispiriting cinematic experience delivered to us in the form of The Emoji Movie deserves the brunt of our wrath.
Film Inquiry
1.0
You might simply ignore the whole thing if this film didnt sully the good name of so many gifted actors.
Empire
0.5
Susan Grangers review of The Emoji Movie (Columbia Pictures/Sony Animation) For technology luddites and those who have never encountered a smartphone, ..
Susang Ranger
3.0
But most audience members old enough to actually own phones will probably realize that much of The Emoji Movies plot is predictable (it feels like a m ..
Common Sense Media
1.2
It probably is but The Emoji Movie is so painfully lame and an 86 minute reminder that Hollywood could do better because your children deserve better.
Flim Threet
5.0
Verdict: Hitting all the right emotions with emojis. Once upon a time, there was a man who had an idea. He asked himself, What if toys could talk What ..
Book My Show
1.5
This film is exactly what its posters would lead you to believe it is: an animated narrative film about emoji.
The New York Times
1.0
The Lego Movie was far better than we had any right to expect.The Emoji Movie manages the seemingly impossible feat of being a little bit worse than i ..
The Irish Times
2.5
At its best, this seems like a second rate version of Pixars Inside Out.
ReelViews
1.5
Given the right combination of inspiration, intelligence and gifted artists, any dumb thing can be turned into an enjoyable film.
Hollywood Reporter
0.5
The Emoji Movie is not just a critical flop, but also a metaphor for a Hollywood that is struggling to find the line between branding that audiences l ..
The Atlantic
1.0
It gives us nothing new.Not every animated movie has to be a Zootopia or a Toy Story 3.
Pajiba
1.5
But for a film that wants to imagine the world inside smartphones, this story just feels so unimaginative and low stakes.
Los Angeles Times
1.5
There have been worse ideas, but in this case the execution isnt good enough to bring the notion of an emoji movie to funky, surprising life.
Variety
1.0
If the title of the film made you wary of the quality, nothing can prepare you for the onslaught of mediocrity that the film offers you.
Firstpost
2.5
Its not the worst thing ever made, but it is seemingly afraid to commit to being a coming out parable.
Forbes
0.5
Looking back, it seems so obvious. We should have seen The Emoji Movies utter awfulness coming. But as with so many other things in 2017, hindsight is ..
Vox
1.0
A younger audience might enjoy the films bright visuals and juvenile humour, but theres no discernible message to be found, and I find it hard to beli ..
Hey U Guys
2.0
The jokes you make about The Emoji Movie are funnier than anything in it.
Now Toronto
1.9
But in its transparent effort to ape the Oscarwinning Pixar film, Emoji Movie just manages to underscore how artificial and superficial our tech depen ..
Deseret News
2.0
The result of this ambitious excavation: perhaps the most convoluted high concept science fiction film youll see all year.
Ner Dist
2.0
A craven commercial remake of Inside Out where product placement replaces emotional fibre this breezy Hollywood animated adventure is set inside the t ..
The Age
1.5
Published on Aug 3, 2017 Andre Black Nerd Reviews The Emoji Movie and questions life.
You Tube
0.0
Please restore my eyes to their factory settings.They have seen The Emoji Movie, a new exercise in soulless branding, aimed primarily at little kids.
New York Post
2.5
The Emoji Movie is no Toy Story or Lego Movie, but its as least as enjoyable as the ridiculously overrated Avatar.
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
1.5
And thats where this breaks down, not because it lacks the humour, insight, imagination and soul that might have made it worth attempting although it ..
Star Burst Magazine
0.5
If people love it fine but they, as an audience, deserve better, they deserve not to be harangued by a pompous, manipulative and dishonest sales pitch ..
Star Burst Magazine
1.0
The crazy world of digital smartphone pictograms get its own awful animated movie.
Lw Lies
1.0
Although this is clearly attempting to emulate The Lego Movie with its knowing tone, its remains a nakedly hollow exercise all throughout.
Nz Herald
1.0
Tony Leondis, director of Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (no, Im still serious), helms a cinematic meh without wit, imagination, fun hell there ..
Flicks
2.5
Sometimes the best thing to do is ignore us and just go see for yourself.
Stuff
2.0
Theres no reason why this animated comedy adventure needed to be this pointless.
Contact Music
1.0
a callous cash grab that fully understands what a parent circa 2017 needs to keep the kids contained
Film Racket
2.0
The Emoji Movie (U)86mins ITS fair to say this animated movie isnt aimed at me.I have never attached a smiley face to a message in my life.
The Sun
2.0
Even though the concept tries to be relevant to adults, The Emoji Movies design and presentation is a little too simple and cartoonish to appeal to ol ..
FilmFare
0.0
1 of 6 View Caption This image released by Sony Pictures shows Gene, voiced by T.J. Miller, in Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animations Th..
Sltrib
1.0
A disastrous, shameless attempt to cash in on the ubiquity of the icons that populate our text messages.
Scmp
1.5
The Emoji Movie should not be supported because it celebrates lazy filmmaking, bad storytelling, and materialism.
We Live Entertainment
1.0
But its really closer to Cars: an incoherently designed world, riddled with logic holes like Swiss cheese.
Metro New York
0.5
Here, the writers had a chance to be thoughtful or maybe even sweet.Whats it like to be an outcast emoji
The Verge
0.5
It would be hard to forgive The Emoji Movie its meh plotline and the fact that it is literally one giant ad for apps, but its most unforgivable sin is ..
New Republic
1.0
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The National
1.0
Synopsis Its time to step inside your smartphone and take a trip to Textopolis, a bustling city where all your favourite emojis live to serve teenage ..
Sky
0.5
Sad to look at and joyless to watch, theres nothing on offer here for anyone but the least demanding child.
Trespass Mag
1.5
Instead it stays surface level and in that way feels very, very young.
Ap News
1.0
The Emoji Movie will hopefully bring this trend to a close as it offers nothing worthwhile for either children or adults.
Film Ireland
0.5
The Emoji Movie is the worst of cinema made for children and families a lazy, barely developed story that relies on audience recognition of phone apps ..
Chesapeake Family
1.3
And yet, while watching the movie, my brain ceased immolating itself and began asking big questions.In one scene, the Poop emoji emerges from a restro ..
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