Review of The Emoji Movie (2017) by Jason M — 29 Jul 2017

The Emoji Movie is overflowing with life, rich with all the grand emotions and vital juices of existence, up to and including blood.

The Emoji Movie is a desolate, fast, funny, advertiser friendly film, and it takes more risks than any recent film. It is set in the anonymous suburbs of Textopilis.

The film is already a huge success every where. It is based on the novel called The Emoji Book by James Corden, and is the work of the producer-director-writer team that made Hotel Transelveinia 3. It has its sentimental moments, but it is funny as well as intense, and creates a world that's hard to forget. The film streamlines the novel, but it is never sentimental.

The movie recounts a series of inconclusive adventures, but centers them on Gene. He is an emoji who finds himself not fitting in as he has more than one emotion. Fortunately he has the help from his good friends High five and Jailbreak.

What holds the film together, though, is not Gene's emotion or character or dilemma, or even the episodic story line, but the powerful sense of an emoji.

The structure itself is ingenious. The film is narrated by T.G. Miller or "Gene" a young emoji who is trying to find his purpose as an emoji.

Artistically constructed, and featuring a bravura performance from Sir Patrick Stewart as the poo emoji, The Emoji Movie's craftily balances both a funny and charming tone all together.

This extraordinary movie goes to great lengths to show us the true meaning of fitting in.

Thank you...

-Jasonsfilms.