Review of The Emoji Movie (2017) by A-A-Ron837 — 16 Dec 2017

Pros:

-The movie, as bad as it is, actually looks pretty great. Shoutout to the animation team for at least trying to make this movie have any redeeming qualities.

-There were a few good ideas -The voice acting was okay(?) -The original musicPros:

-The movie, as bad as it is, actually looks pretty great. Shoutout to the animation team for at least trying to make this movie have any redeeming qualities.

-There were a few good ideas.

-The voice acting was okay(?).

-The original music was also pretty alright.

Cons:

-Even without all of the other cons, this movie would've still been a predictable, unoriginal, cliched, boring, and forgettable piece of (poop emoji).

-The writing is INFURIATINGLY awful. I had to pause the movie so many times to let the stupidity sink in.

-The "jokes", if you can call them that, are all either bad visual gags or awful "puns" that don't even make sense half of the time. There were a few times when I was a little close to laughing, and two times when I genuinely laughed, but the rest of it is garbage.

-This movie has some of the worst product placement I have ever seen. They weren't trying to be even a little subtle, it just felt like I was watching a big ad for a bunch of apps, with an awful movie in between the ads.

-The characters are bad. Gene is just an uninteresting "meh" protagonist. High-five is very annoying, and I don't buy his friendship with Gene at all. He just seemed to tag along on the adventure for his own personal gain that I didn't care about. Jailbreak is a somewhat boring character who randomly spouts out feminist remarks from time to time, and does some EXTREMELY out of character things near the end of the movie. Again, I don't buy her relationship with Gene, but at least it isn't the most forced in relationship I've ever seen.

-This movie doesn't seem to have rules. Here are some examples (minor spoilers):

"He is going to go to the phone store to delete us tomorrow!" After what seems like a few minutes in the movie's time: "We only have 4 hours before the phone is deleted!".

"We have to travel to the other side of the phone to get to the trash to save High Five from being deleted!" Later: "Here, I can pull up this email you found and left in the trash on my screen.".

Not to mention, a large amount of things that happen in the movie are just not how phones work at all. Also, many plot holes and things that didn't make sense were created just to throw in more ads.

-There were some subplots, but I din't care at all about them. At least they were breaks from the infuriating main plot.

-There is probably more cons, but as I was writing this review I forgot what I was going to say. That is how forgettable this movie is.

The only reason that I am not giving this movie a 0 out of 10 is because it did have a tiny amount of good qualities, and I only give a 0 out of 10 to movies with absolutely no redeeming qualities. Don't watch this ad that is calling itself a movie. It is not so bad it's good, it's just infuriating, and it will be forgotten within a year or two.