Were We TOO HARD on the Emoji Movie? :(

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[tekuaniaakab]

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.

[OracleAndi]

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.

[Kirby]

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.

[kaldurskipper]

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

[redtailarts]

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.

[RetroReviewsMovies]

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

[MeganKoumori]

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.

[justinehercthehuman]

“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*

[Potates]

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.

[brittbaird]

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.

[Legoguy]

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.

[ForeverFallingCrescent]

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

[DragonRagovi]

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.

[builttoscalevideos]

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.

[thebrightdiamondtp]

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

[cardinalhamneggs]

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

[HEYBUDDYMAN]

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.

[titangirl]

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

[Robowil]

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.

[WinterAurora-mp]

0:35 “a very important gorilla died” the source of the horrible timeline, when harambe got sniped