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Emoji Movie is rated 1.4/10 on imdb and 6% on Rotten Tomatoes.
“The Emoji Movie” opens this weekend, and critics aren’t too happy about it.

About the movie:

Your Phone Is A Colorful JUNGLE! This animated comedy takes place in Textopolis, where different emojis live in a smartphone. An emoji named Gene (voiced by T.J. Miller) is embarrassed that he has various facial expressions while each of his friends only have one, so he wants to be similar to everyone else. James Corden, Anna Faris, Jennifer Coolidge, Patrick Stewart, and Maya Rudolph also lend their voices to this film from Sony Pictures Animation.

Mel and Mary go searching for Gene and have a very lethargic argument. They make up in the Instagram app when Mel reveals that he, too, is a malfunction, describing Gene's behavior. While traveling through Spotify, Jailbreak confessed that she likes Gene just the way he is, and that he should not be embarrassed of his malfunction. They make it to the trash and rescue Hi-5, but are soon attacked by an upgraded bot. They evade it and enter Dropbox, where they encounter a firewall. The gang get past it with a password being Addie's name and reach the cloud, where Jailbreak prepares to reprogram Gene. Gene admits his feelings for Jailbreak, but she plans to stick to her plan of travelling into the cloud, accidentally causing Gene to return to his indifferent programming out of heartbreak. The upgraded bot takes Gene, and Hi-5 and Jailbreak race after them.

Currently The Emoji Movie Official Trailer has a rather underwhelming 12,252,540 views with 20,000 likes and 100,000 dislikes.

More info about the movie:

Release date: July 28, 2017 (USA)

Director: Tony Leondis

Budget: 50 million USD

Production company: Sony Pictures Animation

Producer: Michelle Raimo

CAST

T. J. Miller as Gene, an outsider "meh" emoji who can show multiple expressions.

James Corden as Hi-5, a hand emoji.

Anna Faris as Jailbreak, a codebreaker emoji.

Maya Rudolph as Smiler, a smiley emoji and leader of the text center.

Steven Wright as Mel Meh, Gene's emoji father.

Jennifer Coolidge as Mary Meh, Gene's emoji mother.

Patrick Stewart as Poop, a poop emoji

Christina Aguilera as Akiko Glitter, a "super cool" dancer that lives inside the Just Dance app.

Sofía Vergara as Flamenca, a flamenco dancer emoji.

Sean Hayes as Steven, a devil emoji.

Rachel Ray as Spam, a spam message.

Jeff Ross as an Internet troll.

Jake T. Austin as Alex, a human teenager who owns the phone where Gene and his emoji friends live.

Tati Gabrielle as Addie, Alex's crush.

Rob Riggle as an ice cream emoji (uncredited).

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 that it perpetuates the notion that emojis are childish. July 31, 2017

Clio Chang The New Republic Top Critic

At its best, this seems like a second-rate version of Pixar's Inside Out. At its worst, it's a cash-grab based on a cynical high-level concept. July 30, 2017 | Rating: 2/4

James Berardinelli ReelViews Top Critic

Disregard that PG rating and keep your children far away from director Tony Leondis' vile animated faux-comedy. Beneath its trippy surface lurks an insidious philosophy hazardous to impressionable minds. July 28, 2017 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

the sad thing is that the graphics are GREAT but the story......................................yikes

Reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8pJt4dK_s4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emoji_Movie

https://newrepublic.com/article/144128/emoji-deserves-better-emoji-movie

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_emoji_movie/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4877122/