Were We TOO HARD on the Emoji Movie? :(

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[@Saberspark]

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[@GalaxyGoo19]

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[@GunRunner106]

no.

[@somethingstudios_w6101]

:)

[@HIHOSILVER15]

Hi

[@carlossanblas5807]

:E

[@tekuaniaakab2050]

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.

[@bensoncheung2801]

True that.

[@magosexploratoradeon6409]

And the fact that there's the woke undertone certainly didn't help.

[@Joselimineitor]

@@magosexploratoradeon6409 What

[@icejuice4212]

@@magosexploratoradeon6409 what-

[@diablo.the.cheater]

@@magosexploratoradeon6409 What--

[@RetroReviewsMovies]

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

[@kingfoxy8775]

😳

[@pizzapoper4065]

29*

[@charlestonjew7587]

Even in 2017, it was already pretty dated.

[@Nerdtendo6366]

If it was Emoticons, then it would have been a hit. But they used emojis so it deserves all the hate it got

[@JDReC100]

@@Nerdtendo6366 that makes no sense

[@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.

[@littlemoth4956]

I mean, that could also be a fake persona and her real self is actually the princess emoji.

[@chrisnotpratt1903]

The amount of bots here, I swear.

[@Jason_Altea]

@Boxing Did you know anyone can see your recent comments on this channel? I'm sure all those "Here's the clip you wanted: (link)" comments were all just satire too, though. They were just formatted, phrased, and executed exactly like the ones you were mocking without any actual change. That's how satire works right?

[@wintermoon7003]

@Ashley Radack Gonna report you for being a bot. Quit promoting them, just report and ignore, making comments to them only strengths them.

[@Hecatom]

She wasn't being herself because she was denying a part of herself.

[@kaldurskipper6821]

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

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Same goes for that Uncle Grandpa episode about trolls on the Internet, by having a literal fantasy troll taking over.

[@7Write4This9Heart7]

Agreed! I always think of that line/ep when I'm confronted with situations like that online or IRL! lol.

[@disneyvillainsfan1666]

I loved that episode.

[@redtailarts101]

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.

[@alfredgomez3128]

Lego Movie does good as a traveling multiverse movie AND characterizing blatant products. That major media didn't expect that, and had awkward reactions towards this success, was fun to witness. Many movies since have faltered in both, leaving Emoji Movie as this bland, nearly harmless film. It doesn't commit further narrative crimes, nor are its images as cherished as major IPs.

[@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171]

Even Batman (which is from DC) felt like he was part of it and not a product placement. Warner did an excellent job.

[@wdgaminganddisneyhistory6024]

Let's not forget Clutch Powers, which pretty much promoted the themed sets at the time like Castles, Space Police, Power Miners, etc.

[@pokaay3163]

It was also really cool how they stuck to the hardcore rule that EVERYTHING in the lego world had to be made of legos. The CGI was really creative because they couldve easily phoned it in with mediocrely realistic effects of water, dust, lasers, etc, but they didn’t. Really believable concept especially considering it takes place partly in the imagination of a child.

[@RGC_animation]

The LEGO movie is a piece of art based on a product, this Emoji movie is a commercial pretending to be art.

[@Kirby0189]

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.

[@alexgomez6723]

I mean, the film isn’t THAT bad in of itself, but it was such a cynical money hungry afterthought to its fundamental core, a living breathing joke about the lows Hollywood would stoop to fish out as much cash of the apathetic public as possible, but without the punchline. I didn’t hate it because its just not a film really worth having strong feelings for, positive or negative. I don’t consider it the worse film of all time because even that is way more credit than it deserves. Frankly I detest Ralph Breaks The Internet a lot more than TEM, because that film did everything TEM was guilty of along with shitting all over the previous character development and lesson from its predecessor. It was far more deserving of the hate TEM but it didn’t receive nearly as much flack.

[@alexgomez6723]

Ironically, I just watched it not too long ago because my little cousin wanted to watch it. It was a numbing experience.

[@JamesTDG]

I wonder if someone recorded it...

[@icecreamthemaltese2202]

Lmao thats hilarious 💀💀☠

[@icecreamthemaltese2202]

@@JamesTDG same..

[@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.

[@NicoEdgy]

Agreed, the concept of making an emoji movie can’t work

[@thehandlebroke]

And then everyone in the Walmart stood up and started applauding you sister

[@NicoEdgy]

@@thehandlebroke I mean, saying that a movie about emojis is a stupid idea isn’t exclusive to intelligence intellectuals like us, this person’s little sister could have thought a movie about emojis was stupid. (Not sure if she saw what Sony was trying to do though)

[@eko9554]

Yeah it’s like making a movie about Google images. It’s an uninteresting concept for a movie.

[@MeganKoumori]

@@thehandlebroke Not even close. We were walking through the toy aisle if I recall.

[@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*

[@everythingpony]

That I don't understand, why is it ok for KZbinrs to do it but not movies?

[@cazhmonii]

@@everythingpony You pay for content, you won't get ads; you don't pay for content, you're gonna get ads. You have to pay to see a movie. KZbin videos are completely free to watch.

[@Azur3GD]

@@everythingponybecause its only funny when youtubers do it

[@flowey1145]

​@@everythingponybecause most youtubers are upfront about it, in emoji or wrek it Ralph 2, you can clearly see it was an ad, the problem is the fact that they're trying to cover up a ad as an movie lol, sure advertising happens in movies and can be seen but they aren't actual plot points inside the movie. IF it is shoved down your eyes on a movie YOU PAYED for, then it's bad bad (atleast do it correctly movies)

[@Justarandomrobloxnoob]

Nah, we were too gentle.

[@titangirl161]

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

[@PlanetZoidstar]

Exactly, The Emoji Movie plays into the narrative that "Princess" is a negative. Plus it makes no sense since we SEE female Emojis (Smiler and Gene's mom) aren't Princess Emojis. So Jailbreak's whole conflict over "girls can only be Princesses" is contradicted by the movie itself.

[@alexgomez6723]

@Planet Zoidstar They really where audacious to play up the feminist woes of girls being undervalued and unrepresented, when the main villain is a POWERFUL WOMAN, I would almost believe they where intentionally being subtlety tongue in check, but that would imply the script writing process wasn’t an afterthought to the main objective. (money obviously). Like, it’s totally fine if you want your girl power message, but at least be smart and consistent about it. It doesn’t even make sense to the actual function of the things they are advertising (emojis), most of the facial emojis are designed to be gender neutral, the movie just decided to make most of the emojis default male for an easy predictable romance subplot and a hamfisted feminist message that they weren’t even consistent with.

[@azadalamiq]

@@alexgomez6723 depends on the phone and OS, as some emoji can come with variant looks and gendered like a male/female smile or some such. hell discord has a fk ton and you can make custom ones.

[@HopAndLockDropSoppityPop]

You mentioned Star Butterfly so I have to "She's a rebel princess, she's the best! She's a ball of lightning in a hot pink dress"

[@TooTired_ToType]

@@HopAndLockDropSoppityPop Isn't the dress blue?

[@brittbaird3250]

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.

[@spaceboyctstudios2934]

Just like the “Sonic The Hedgehog” movie, right?

[@irpsicologiayeducaciongrup8251]

@@spaceboyctstudios2934 Can see it's bait, but I'll bite. It actually did give us something: a different canon universe from the games plus a few interesting ideas.

[@spaceboyctstudios2934]

@@irpsicologiayeducaciongrup8251 True. But I’m afraid Sonic 3 will end up like Shrek the Third where fans are so hyped that when they see the third movie went from decent to mediocre, they will be beyond disappointed. Heck, they might end up being betrayed. As a result, the Sonic movie franchise will end up being one of the franchise that will get worse with each movie released, like Michael Bay Transformers, Ice Age, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Shrek.

[@lilpsyche6971]

@@spaceboyctstudios2934 My best friend actually likes those movies. But I think she's a Sonic fan for.. Specific reasons.. wink wink nudge nudge

[@SonicChannelGaming]

@@spaceboyctstudios2934 bruh the sonic movies wont fail the sonic movies are the reason why good video game movies are coming back the 1st one was very good,the 2nd one was event better & i think with that its safe to assume that the 3rd one will be even better than the other 2 since its gonna bring a story that is even more accurate to the sonic the hedgehog video games alongside some more characters that are from the sonic the hedgehog video games aswell

[@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.

[@jotacatalan]

Considering that Sony needed to put something to keep the spiderman license within their hands, I'm just glad it wasn't a fan4stic situation were no one wanted to make that movie but they had to keep their right to makes movies about them.

[@leme9909]

im convinced the emoji movie was a strategic move. create a widely palatable cash cow film and then use that money to create a masterpiece like spiderverse

[@j.2512]

spiderverse is not even that good

[@leme9909]

@@j.2512 thats ok homie not everyone can have good taste

[@graysonrogers-barnes6302]

I honestly wonder if this flopping is what made them realize taking chances is better than pandering.

[@ForeverFallingCrescent]

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

[@amagumoquinn]

shes so real for that

[@2Potates]

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.

[@hassathunter2464]

Should have given them a thick Russian accent to really bring the stereotype across. Unless of course they already did.

[@SmoeStopMotion]

Bro perfect bot timing

[@ladypangaea4801]

Yeah, that sounds about right.

[@cheeseium]

bots arent on ur phone either tho....

[@2Potates]

@@SmoeStopMotion I think me mentioning bots might legit have triggered whatever it is they use to decide what they reply to.

[@HEYBUDDYMAN86]

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.

[@-im-aim]

it’s aggravating

[@mr_indie_fan]

Are you the critical drinker's brother?

[@henrychen4947]

It's really sad when a terrible movie cant be any fun, even if you get drunk.

[@beancandev7818]

Ok, if you can’t enjoy something while your drunk, that’s bad.

[@weregretohio7728]

I'd watch The Room or Troll 2 a million times over the Emoji Movie.

[@Legoguy9875]

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.

[@hencethebeetroot]

You, sir, have just designed a plot better than a fully funded production studio.

[@The_wheels_turn_ever_forward]

@@hencethebeetroot true.

[@TabalugaDragon]

but that would just make it a copy of Wreck it Ralph.

[@TabalugaDragon]

@@hencethebeetroot he just adapted the lot of Wreck-it-Ralph for Emoji movie setting 🤦‍♂ nothing more

[@hencethebeetroot]

@@TabalugaDragon My point stands

[@cardinalhamneggs5253]

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

[@Black_Frost212]

Isn’t there a little app to play just dance on your phone (sure it’s like 2 songs a day and all that shit)

[@imx_via]

It was probably the Just Dance Now app that acts as a controller to the Just Dance Now web service

[@imx_via]

It could also be the Just Dance Controller app which can be used with consoles like the Wii U and older

[@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.

[@wool578]

im not saying kids movies cant be complex but thats way too complex for a movie like this, especially one with the name of "the emoji movie". a movie with a title like that + your idea would be a documentary.

[@eko9554]

I think the teen couple in the movie should’ve been a movie itself. Instead of focusing on emojis.

[@builttoscalevideos]

@@wool578 I dunno, Inside Out managed to take Mental Health pretty seriously while making it understandable for kids, I'd suggest checking out HotDiggedyDemon's Brain Dump on the Emoji Movie, he presents a pretty neat concept for an Emoji Movie that focuses on mental health,

[@KeyleeTamirian]

I don't know what is worse, a stupid movie with idiotic plot and concept, or a movie that tries too hard to be deep and make some deep messages... Both are cringe.

[@builttoscalevideos]

@@KeyleeTamirian it really doesn’t need to be that deep, Make the main character angsty, rude to his parents, grades are slipping, but instead of dealing with that stuff, he uses his phone as an escape from his problems. But underneath all of that, Alex is just a kid who is unhappy and doesn’t know why. The emoji’s have their epic quest like kids movie characters normally do, so they can tell Alex to just put down his phone for 5 seconds and talk to his parents about what’s bothering him in a constructive way, with words, not with smiley faces.

[@Kolossoni]

Problem is, the movie tried to hide its disgusting product placement with something that everyone used: emojis. Emojis are free, compatible and easy to use, but Sony decided to use that as a leverage to target kids (let's be honest, most of the viewers were kids) to buy/play whatever games/products the respective companies were willing to pay them to be blatantly advertised. Not only was the movie subpar in general, but its shameless corporate decision to market their movie as a kid-friendly flick but shove a whole bunch of shady advertisements only adults will pickup is what made people hate it.

[@woae..]

I agree

[@redyoshi3696]

Children and middle aged men

[@gilldominicmendoza5202]

It didn't even do it tastefully. I mean Lego movie is also liken to man ad but at least it's a good one.

[@FeuerblutRM]

Welcome to capitalism where a movie's revenue is more important than artistic value.

[@jbcatz5]

@@gilldominicmendoza5202 Lego Movie actually has a story with developments, twists and genuinely fun and interesting characters as well as a commentary on the Chosen One trope. The scene alone where Emmet’s look is so generic he can’t be identified shows more imagination than everything to do with Gene as a character. It’s telling the same writers would go on to do The Mitchells vs the Machines, another film about technology, communication and relationships, but achieving it with far more style and flair.

[@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.

[@Mariorox1956]

I never could forget. Five years later, and I'm still upset this got made over Popeye

[@richard_boderman]

@Sabersраrk 🅥 u gud

[@goldleck]

@YouTubе 🅥 nice bot

[@Spongyboi897]

I still bring it up sometimes, because I just miss 2017

[@ferociousfeind8538]

that's the reaction it deserves- hate, and then obscurity

[@uno_reverce_card1715]

When I first watched this movie I actually forgot like three different types that the main emoji was a 😐 emoji. I keep thinking he was a 😁 emoji

[@rorysvillage5769]

He is a 😒 emoji

[@eveningowl9443]

why would u even watch it

[@Bushwhack-lmao_xD]

no the strange part: the MEH emoji doesnt even EXIST 😒😕😑🫤 the closest competitors one of them is rude one of them is sad one of them is "r u f'in srs rn bro" and one of them is :/ but an emoji (a crime against humanity)

[@thebrightdiamondtp7871]

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

[@ayyyayay]

Or even the 🅿️

[@crappystateproductions6836]

Or now the 👴🏻

[@nebulatheseanight]

or the 💀

[@Backfisch5927]

The 💀 would probably just stand there with a front view on the head when something unfunny happened

[@victorlolxd7347]

@@Backfisch5927wait do we use The skull when something funny or unfunny happens?

[@ironici]

Katy did a brilliant job with the intro. The way she read it really caught my attention, and when the script turned to the emojis I died laughing

[@vxpdx]

Agreed, perfectly executed, this has to be the best intro I've seen to any video so far

[@flyingstonemon3564]

Had me dead by the gorila ref, rip harambe

[@erinbrown3744]

The fart noise right after “I can smell it in the air” killed me. Because I am a mature adult.

[@springtrap-fan-stan8540]

Plus the fact that there was major lord of the rings storytelling happening here

[@bobbythompson6017]

SIMPS

[@Sketchtrastrophe]

Gonna be honest, I didn't think it was THAT bad, just incredibly mediocre and lazy. Otherwise it wasn't horrible, just a generic movie.

[@asprinjuice425]

I think the fact that there was clearly no effort put in to giving this movie any semblance of a soul makes it worse than something like joshua and the promised land in my opinion, simply because at least with that movie you can tell the creator had a creative vision as his main goal and not money

[@BloodyMaryLPS1112]

I didn't think It was bad, I was expecting pure garbage but was pleasantly surprised

[@misfitfarm3142]

Your dad still getting the milk

[@mischiefthedegenerateratto7464]

One would say it was Meh

[@totally-red9833]

Agreed

[@aimationcapsule2292]

Man, that Twitter scene really hits different now.

[@meowpuddingz]

Fr 💀💀

[@LB-py9ig]

No, the context of the time is important. Sony Pictures Animation was then at the peak of mistreating its creators, especially folks like Gendy Tartakovsky over his Popeye film. Some time after Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Sony just gave up and made a mountain of trash. If not for the backlash, you never would have gotten the Into the Spiderverse that we got.

[@emblemblade9245]

I loved Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs :(

[@nxctem]

edits: grammar mistakes I think most of the anger started off in the animation/art community because a creative film (Popeye) was cancelled for this obvious cash grab. it definitely hit a sore spot of how corporations are always going for things that make money, rather than letting something artistic and different do it’s own thing. others then started to dog pile on the hate and it grew into everyone hating the film regardless if they watched it or not. it’s great that many people ended up hating it though, since now the company is letting itself have some more creative films (mitchell vs the machines and spiderverse 2)

[@josebarrozo7620]

Another reason is that Inside Out came out only two years ago.

[@storywriter3305]

@@josebarrozo7620 Inside Out came out in 2015. Do you mean two years prior?

[@slashermaster28]

@@nxctem Actually, no joke, Popeye was cancelled for Hotel Transylvania 3. Seriously, Genndy scrapped Popeye so he could work on that instead. I don't know if that really was his decision like he claims it was or if Sony forced him to do it while claiming it was his decision, but yeah, the reason Popeye is only in the form of line-art and not fully rendered is partly because of Tartakovsky himself, not The Emoji Movie. That film was just an easy target because, well, along with being a bad film, it was also announced around the same time Popeye's cancellation was revealed, hence why everyone was so quick to blame it without doing any actual research. (As I said in a comment I posted recently, Animat made an entire video talking about this. I'm honestly astounded by how many people forgot that video exists)

[@223Drone]

I think the hate with the emoji movie is more to do with the fact that executives are more than happy to waste the talents of animators in order to make a quick buck. The people at Sony animation are clearly talented but it's unfortunate they were forced to work on a obvious cash grab.

[@jbcatz5]

A waste of talented voice actors too. At least they got a paycheque out of it.

[@miscellaneoof]

@@jbcatz5 except T.J Miller. All my homies hate T.J. Miller

[@sirkillalot9892]

At least it turned into the greatest redemption story through Into the Spider verse.

[@tiara9624]

@@sirkillalot9892 dang i still can’t believe the spider verse movie is from the same studio

[@LoveTrueMusic1]

They barely pay animators and CGI people anything though

[@n3rddegree869]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the film it got compared to the most, The Lego Movie. I think that was a turning point because it made people realize that a film having product tie-ins doesn't need to be bad. If done right they can work organically with the story.

[@mi1kguts]

even the sequel was just as good. a product tie-in movie *sequel* being good??? it really can be done if the people behind it actually *care* about making a good movie lol

[@enderlord8771]

@@mi1kguts I don't know, the sequel didn't make any sense to me. I felt like it was trying too hard in places, and sometimes really lacked subtlety.

[@-mystery-.]

I might get hated on for saying this but the lego movies werent actually bad at all. It was quite entertaining and fun, i actually had a plase when i was younger where i loved the lego movies

[@enderlord8771]

@@-mystery-. I actually say the first Lego movie was pretty good. It's the second one I feel falls short.

[@-mystery-.]

@@enderlord8771 I can agree the first was better than the second but I genuinely enjoyed the second aswell

[@ninetailgamers4323]

I feel that this movies downfall was the fact that this entice movie was an hour long add, it explains how to use Candy Crush, shows how strong the firewall is, and also has just dance ( where the characters have to play the game ) and lastly, they go through the music apps, and explain how many nice songs that are in the app.

[@nekonomicon2983]

The inconsistencies with the trolls could've easily been solved by making them viruses. I know the scene is for comedy but I think it's just proof there was no care at all to make the writing seem smarter than it could be within the walls of its own rules and logic.

[@陽菜-v2g]

Back when I was in elementary watching the movie, I just assumed that they were viruses. I knew that they were called trolls but that wouldn't make sense so I thought of them as the code version of mean guys, which were viruses

[@TunaBear64]

Wanna know the worst part? In that scene THERE WAS VIRUSES

[@Googledeservestodie]

It kind of reminds me of Red Ape Family's Saberfart joke. Ridicule for both concepts came flooding in before they even came out, and instead of making a better product they decided to take the critics, turn them into strawmen and go "yeah well this is you and you're ugly and stinky for making fun of me!" It's just petty

[@LaRana2315]

I remember when this movie came out I had NO intention of watching it, but my 5 yr old nephew was SO excited to see it and really wanted to watch it with his "favourite titi (auntie)" that I didn't have the heart to say no. I spent the whole film cringing internally and exchanging pained glances of boredom with my brother and mother, (my nephew's tio and abuela, who he'd also convinced to come watch the film via 5 yr old cuteness and hard to resist puppy eyes). It was an hour and a half of my life I was never getting back but it was worth it for my nephew's happiness. He's 9 now and thinks the emoji movie is 'stupid and dumb', but likes to joke saying, "Titi loves me SO much they watched the emoji movie with me." The movie might be garbage and makes the animator in me die a little but atleast I got a sweet bonding experience/joke out of it 😭

[@TunaBear64]

So sweet.

[@wahoo.]

your 9 year old nephew is based af

[@alexgomez6723]

Touching.

[@chrisrj9871]

It's funny how the trip from 5 years old to 9 years old is like an eternity, but 25-29 is practically a blink.

[@TooSpicyForYourHeart_]

Character development on your nephew’s part HAHAH

[@CrimsonFox36]

The film does have one really creative moment where the parents have a conversation inside the photos in the phone. Like, the photos are actual sets they can walk around in, and interact with. I though that was neat.

[@OwOnt]

and that was it, i laughed twice through the whole thing. people say i laugh so much they think its fake *I LAUGHED TWICE*

[@SanzerMations]

i can give it that but literally nothing else also i liked the human designs, they strike a good mix of stylized and realistic

[@REDFRLegend]

That was the only part I actually liked!

[@tavigamer4049]

That was like my favorite scene

[@MS-FM2]

I can't believe they thought emotions having emotions was a good idea.

[@regfcvbn7424]

inside out

[@tit-sucker-3000]

pixar did it

[@samiam2003]

​@@regfcvbn7424 well....

[@Yourlocalshitposter]

​@regfcvbn7424 I can't think of an argument against that..

[@crealyguy]

I remember when the emoji movie came out my dad had a subscription to this magazine with reviews of the latest films. When the emoji movie came out, instead of printing one star out of 5 they just put a sad face emoji instead

[@graysonrogers-barnes6302]

Lol

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

Whoever edit the magazine review really deserves a medal.

[@crealyguy]

@@poweroffriendship2.0 very true

[@swishpronoob]

I would like to check this magazine out.

[@StateBlaze1989]

I remember hearing the discourse online about this movie. In one of the few instances of "I'll see for myself" out of me, I actually gave the movie a watch (pirated, of course). I went in with as blank a slate as I could, gave the movie a chance. But from scene to scene, I just got more and more bored. More insulted. This movie wasn't the abhorrent amalgamation of sin some reviews had made it out to be, but it was just as pandering and insulting. Hell, the movie even starts off shitting on its target audience, gen Z, in the first 3 minutes. I never fully finished watching it. At the last five or so minutes when the dance party happened, I just shoved the phone i was watching it on across the table. I was freaking done. So, were we too harsh on The Emoji Movie? No. No we were not. It got everything it deserved.

[@LoinkLoink]

I still remember when the entire movie was up on the hub. I wonder how many people went there in order to watch it.

[@KoiandKitsune]

i love turtles 🐢🐢🐢

[@helpthegods]

I watched this movie as a kid. It was the first time I ever thought "this is embarrassing, I'm too old for this" while watching a movie.

[@solarcapREAL]

what so your 8?

[@graysonrogers-barnes6302]

@@solarcapREAL To be fair, the movie came out 5 years ago. They're probably at least 10, and I highly doubt you weren't also on the internet at their age. Tbh your comment reeks of "16 year old who thinks they're an adult" here XP

[@solarcapREAL]

@@graysonrogers-barnes6302 in conclusion

[@lucky__here]

@@graysonrogers-barnes6302 Agreed. I’m guessing the other person in replies was 7-10 when this came out, any older and I’m just assuming they’re too immature to be here. They’d be 12-15 now anyways. (Yet again, person in replies, not Luna.)

[@cupio-stardust]

@@graysonrogers-barnes6302 exactly, I was like 9 when I first watched it.

[@kt-fn7uz]

No, we're not harsh enough. Double down, don't settle for mediocrity.

[@KKinreallife]

Dang it, They beat me to it. >:|

[@ramenbomberdeluxe4958]

Yep! Seriously, it’s still a cringe inducing corporate cash-in that embodies the term “how do you do, fellow kids? Hippity hip hop on the yo yo yo!”

[@HIHOSILVER15]

If we don’t settle for mediocrity, why are there 1 billion downloads on TikTok?

[@lolcomentaristadeyoutube3379]

The Emoji Movie still deserves all the hate it got, specially because Sony rejected Popeye movie because they thought a movie with emojis would be more successful

[@Empire_11]

What else should we do to hate the movie kill the writer?

[@sunnycooper9440]

I'll still never forget that Sony cancelled a wonderful looking Popeye movie, one that was going to be directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, to focus on making THIS! Honestly, that's where my hate started, and this was long before The Emoji Movie was even released. Then I saw the Nostalgia Critic's review of it later on, and just the fact that they scrapped something way better for THAT just because "money" made me angrier. I'd honestly would've rather had a beautiful movie that might not have made as much as they want, but had a giant amount of love put into it (as well as it potentially gaining a cult following) than a bad movie with WAY too much money put into it that shamelessly put product placements everywhere, was all over with their message and was just "Ripoff Inside Out but w/Phones" anyhow.

[@graysonrogers-barnes6302]

I remember hearing about the Popeye movie! I'd wondered why it never happened...

[@noizepusher7594]

@@graysonrogers-barnes6302 it was actually a company wide hacking incident. The studio or a sub studio or something was making a sateriacal movie about Kim Jung Un and an extremist tried to hack Sony to destroy it, causing a bunch of files to be destroyed in an attempt to get the right one by taking down the whole system. Popeye was caught in the crossfire

[@asapzz_5006]

I completely agree with on you

[@IAmNMFlores]

Can y'all stop spreading this myth. Popeye's cancelation was separate from The Emoji Movie

[@DeterminedTorres]

@@IAmNMFlores I heard it’s actually because of creative differences from the company and the director. So, yeesh.

[@sweetpea2604]

I really do believe that a movie featuring emojis could've worked. Like maybe we could've had a movie about two people who speak different languages but still want to be friends, so they communicate through the emojis. Until eventually they learn each others languages & can fully communicate with one another. …or something like that, btw I didn't just pulled this out of my ass, I remember a reviewer named Cellspex mentioned something like that in her video about the movie.

[@chandlerpaulk4518]

Funny how some regular person on KZbin can come up with a better movie plot than a big company 😂

[@lucky__here]

I would’ve loved that as a kid! And 100% watch it way more than..whatever this was.

[@freshcupofangst]

That sounds like it could make for a really sweet short film

[@TrixyTrixter]

Dude that actually sounds like a fantastic idea. Bonus props if the mpvie uses two made up languages so the viewer as well have no idea what they are saying until the end.

[@Noelle_Holiday]

Good job, you literally just made a better Emoji Movie than Sony Pictures Animation in only 10 minutes.

[@WhoisMeart]

3:19 "Like can you imagine that? watching this video and then BAM! outa nowhere an ad for NordVPN right in the middle of your viewing experience, such disrespect for art"

[@beratlolz]

this video is brought to you by Candy Crush

[@TheRealW.S.Foster]

It was a nearly 90 minute long commercial for apps and product placement that was sugarcoated with a poorly written story - If anything, it got the right amount of criticism for its existence if you ask me.

[@newguy371]

I mean at least they kind of did stuff with the apps instead of just showing random shots like they did in Wreck-It Ralph 2. They showed the Google logo in that movie, but made the search bar some generic search bar. Seriously?

[@milesgarrett2663]

@Emotional D aren’t you the bot that responded that one time?

[@turnipbuthimself9929]

@@newguy371 yeah I don’t get why people liked that film more than this one when it has just as much product placement as the emoji movie

[@newguy371]

@@turnipbuthimself9929 I wouldn't say as much, but it was far more blatant. I'll also add that the original Toy Story had tons of product placement, specifically from Hasbro and Fisher-Price. In fact the characters Slinky Dog and Mr. Potato Head were real toys before the film was made, yet people seem to give it a pass because it's Pixar.

[@shgurr]

We weren't hard enough.

[@artistanthony1007]

Yes.

[@BlueOysterStan]

yeah i’ve been soft for the past 5 years

[@edibleandsentientautomobil5396]

Well said

[@LannyLeArtist]

True shgurr.

[@MicrowavedMedia]

HELL YEAH!

[@pixelpaw1725]

The thing to me about this movie is the fact that they had this whole thing going with hacker girl, how she doesnt want to be a princess, she wants to be a hacker, thats her passion or whatever, but then having her return to being the princess emoji at the end of the movie is… just… off.

[@ElFreakinCid]

Which is especially funny given the whole shoehorned-in feminism angle they were going for with her, only for her to end up returning to being something social media feminists despise and consider regressive.

[@WinterAurora-m3p]

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

[@Inferredpolus]

I love how a movie meant to be relatable is mainly enjoyed by kids who dont have phones

[@brayachdragonbane7529]

"kids who dont have phones" what planet do you live on, because children who still crap in diapers have their own phones

[@gracekim25]

@@brayachdragonbane7529 6months-3 year olds do NOT have actual phones. Children that young get TOY phones

[@brayachdragonbane7529]

@@gracekim25 no clue what fantasyworld youve been living in but take a walk through the average walmart and you'll see entire groups of brats on smartphones...

[@jakobgii]

@@brayachdragonbane7529 its true, kids these days. you see them everywhere with their airpods and whatnot. back in my day we didnt have such luxuries. the younger generation is stupid and ungrateful.

[@apocalypseofplush]

@@brayachdragonbane7529 I didn't have a phone until I was 15. They do exist.

[@MoonWielder]

If they ever thought of having a sequel to the Emoji movie, it would most likely have TikTok and memes brought up in it. That makes me wonder though how many sins CinemaSins would give to the sequel then since, in the first one, he only gave it 279 sins(which is still not enough sins for that cringe-fest).

[@thanod1075]

Probably at least 1000 sins this time, since the sins he gave out on the first movie were a bit too “generous”

[@Mariorox1956]

I don't think there's a countable number of sins that would be enough if a sequel ever got made.

[@Anti2020s]

I hate tik tok

[@TryClyde3]

Most of cinemasins “commentary” is bs that misses the point of a movie

[@sweetbubblegum55]

They'd also probably add the nerd emoji

[@DialingDock2]

Hearing "Poop Emoji" in a dead serious dystopian narrator voice had me holding in a hard laugh, like I wasn't supposed to laugh or else 🤣

[@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171]

The one redeemable quality of the film, other than the animation, which was OK at the time.

[@OhsweetOhno]

I remember watching the Emoji Movie for the first time. I had begged my mother to let me rent it from the local CVS Redbox. I sat on her bed by myself and I loved it. The only part I didn’t like was the candy crush ad because it felt boring. Then I remember watching people review it and saying it was bad so I felt like I had to think it was bad. Even on rewatches going in knowing its bad I can’t help but like it.

[@myMelodyj]

I know it’s not thattt bad

[@Emojimoviefan]

Don’t worry I liked it too

[@julischreiberling5350]

Me too. I thought, that the message would be, that you can have more than one emotion at a time. This was really relatable for me.

[@sober_katz]

i enjoyed it too when it came out. now that i'm older i think it's...eh, it's ok i guess

[@Bluecupcake_funko7]

Same

[@AbeM.]

I like to believe the presence of trolls within his phone means the kid installed some sort of malware and he’s just constantly being spied on.

[@arp5510]

He better put a sticker on the front of his phone camera then.

[@draconis17]

I like how Saber apparently forgot the whole part where the multiple emotions thing is genetic and he got it from his father, who also has multiple emotions but has hid it his whole life. (Which also pretty much throws out that whole theory Saber had about not showing emotions being a social issue)

[@hencethebeetroot]

he didn't forget, he just didn't have the willpower to watch the movie for that long

[@mrr1132]

@@hencethebeetroot Or fell asleep in the attempt. Wouldn't blame him for either one, tbh.

[@TheTownNarcoleptic]

So we tryna say Gene is neurodivergent? We do not claim this poor excuse for an animated movie protagonist. He represents everything we despise (in my experience - can’t speak for every nd person).

[@snakewithapen5489]

@@TheTownNarcoleptic Gene is like tony stark then. He's ND, but you still *really* don't like him

[@cantthinkofaname5046]

@@snakewithapen5489 I’m ND and enjoy Tony stark well enough

[@AniFAE_Productions]

I literally laughed out loud when you casually segue from Candy Crush to Nord VPN. Comedic timing confirmed!!

[@TabalugaDragon]

same

[@atomison]

The Emoji Movie is a cinematic masterpiece, truly the absolute pinnacle of human creation everything pales in comparison to this work of art. The plot is beautiful it has me gripping my seat for the full length of the runtime every time that it blesses my screen. When they found themselves in Candy Crush, I felt nothing but pure euphoria as Candy Crush is easily the greatest thing to bless the video game industry. The Just Dance scene made me get up in the theatre to boogie to the beat as I hoped that my efforts would be enough to get them through. Every time the scary evil emoji, Smiley came on-screen with her killer robots I was terrified, I was extremely scared and hoped that they would not get the good guys. The protagonists are the greatest to ever grace the big screen, with Gene, Jailbreak, and Hi-5 synergizing to form the greatest team of heroes since Paw Patrol. Gene is very relatable showing the audience that they can aspire to be whatever they want and that it is just everybody else holding them back from reaching their potential. Gene is an amazing character and the way he gets back up every time he fails is truly a work of art, his becoming a yellow piece of candy in Candy Crush was also very funny. Hi-5 voiced by James Cordon is absolutely hilarious, James Cordon is already a very, very funny man who gives me uncontrollable side-splitting laughter. In this movie, he is somehow even funnier everything he does is hilarious, and he clearly deserves to be in the V.I.P section at the start of the movie, and anybody who cannot see that is an idiot. Jailbreak is just another addition to the great characters seen throughout the film, her goals are mysterious and unclear, yet she helps Gene and Hi-5 on their honorable quest. She is an amazing hacker and super cool emo girl which makes the plot twist of her being the Princess so much better. The plot twist was the greatest ever seen in cinema on a level that has never been seen before. There as so many more amazing characters that I could write about such as Gene's parents but if I were to write about every good character in this piece of true cinema I would be here forever. The best part of this movie is the truly hilarious side-splitting humor, I touched on this briefly when mentioning the greatest comedian ever James Cordon, but I fear that I did not truly do the humor justice. Therefore, I will continue to write about the genius behind the comedy in this movie which is only to be truly comprehended by the smartest of all individuals. An interaction between the Poop emoji and his son is a notable example of this, Poop: Okay, Son, what should we do after the potty? Poop's Son: Should we wash our hands? What should we do? [They both start laughing] Poop: We're number two! Even while writing this, I am laughing, the genius behind that joke is perfect and every aspiring comedian should be taking notes. This is but a glimpse, a small window into the comedic genius and beauty behind the comedy throughout the film. The Emoji Movie is truly God's greatest gift towards humankind, we are truly not worthy of such a perfect gift as The Emoji Movie.

[@Adriethyl]

_pain_

[@Noelle_Holiday]

The Emoji Movie is, without a doubt, one of the most animated movies of all time. It will certainly go down in history as one of the movies to have ever existed.

[@nobodys_here07]

@@Noelle_Holiday that no one wanted to

[@heartracing4you]

​@Noelle Holiday ok your sounding a bit weird.

[@neonapricots]

@@Noelle_Holidayomg Noelle Holiday? the real Noelle holiday?? Wow say hi to all your friends and let kris know that I’m sorry but I have no choice!!

[@michaelstrong5383]

It is fascinating how Sony Pictures Animation went from making The Emoji Movie one year, then made Into the Spider-Verse the next year.

[@MrRawrCEO]

Well I mean that's the production company not the writers. Emoji movie was a soulless construct meant to entertain kiddies. Spider-verse had passion, creativity, and reverence for the source material. What would be strange is if both were written/directed by the same team, but I somehow doubt that...

[@aaronmccullers384]

My head cannon is that Sony was probably saving all of its good writers to work on Spiderverse while they probably paid some poor intern to figure out how to make a 90 minute commercial.

[@finalmountain]

It’s not that surprising, Sony applied weak artists for The Emoji and strong artists for Spiderverse.

[@TabalugaDragon]

@@MrRawrCEO How was it soulless? did you even watch the movie?

[@Anime_theatre_lover]

Hotel Transylvania 3 came out after the emoji movie and THEN spider verse

[@christophertheriault3308]

The other thing with the scans is that Gene has no reason to not express himself as much as he wants, he only has to "meh" in the brief time it takes to get scanned.

[@TunaBear64]

The more you think about the plot of The Emoji Movie the more nonsensical and contradictory it becomes

[@maravreloaded]

Emoji Movie would NEVER work as a fully-fledged movie. It's just a bunch of ADs attached with something people could call a "plot" you're essentially watching a 90 minutes Advertisment.

[@maravreloaded]

1- Why object emojis are people. What they eat? Shouldn't house emojis be people too? 2- Why they need to scan themselves for each and every user. 3- This isn't "the world of emojis" but "the world of this nameless loser (hey kids he's just like you)" Does that mean there are millions of Genes? Or he's the only emoji in EMOJIKIND to ever fail his purpose? 4- What the hell is actually going on. Why they have houses and well society? If their only purpose is to be scanned and sent in messages. And how tf does that work? What if "Nameless Loser" wants to message some friend at 3 am? How do emojis know their user will use them? This isn't Toy Story like "The Claaaaw" they are totally aware their only purpose is to give "A E S T H E T I C" to the messages. But also funny how they think emojis ONLY exist in "Totally not WhatsApp with name of place ended in 'Polis', -Polis". Like... No? What if Alex is horny and searches on Incognito Mode using emojis? Are they DIFFERENT emojis? Because we hear that the Emoji-place-ended-with-polis Polis is the messaging app of Nameless Loser. What even is Textopolis? Because if you tell me a messaging app... It doesn't show ANYTHING about texting. And all the other Apps or Sponsors are way more clear what they are. My theory is that that place isn't the WhatsApp of the movie, but just the KEYBOARD.

[@Hinokassaudifan1]

No. The fact that my country decided to air THIS abomination as it's first movie to be aired in cinemas across the country is enough for me to burn it with the flames of hell.

[@mennograafmans1595]

Damn. Hope you had some good movies since then. But to imagine this to be the first. I would've thought it would've been some Marvel movie or something that was actually big and popular then.

[@DOMINNIMOD198]

Wew that's rough, the emoji movie is now part of the cinematographic history of your country

[@Vinnus0824]

Which country?

[@martilix4470]

@@Vinnus0824 Saudi Arabia.

[@FlowAaron]

At least you got a second movie which is 100 times better than The Emoji Movie is Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie.

[@GeoNeilUK]

This is the film that Channel 5 (British TV network that is currently owned by Viacom) decided to play during Her Majesty's funeral! Whether that makes the film better or worse is entirely an exercise for the viewer.

[@FluffyDoggie]

On a real note though, when I first heard of “The emoji movie”, I really didn’t think of it being that dumb of an idea, especially since other brands like LEGO, Sonic, and many others have gotten their own movies. I know Emojis are not like a toy company or video game, but it makes sense that they get their own movie since there’s such a huge part of social media or just our world in general i guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@Pigeonfanatic9]

To me, what was annoying was the mentality behind it. The writer said "Toy Story was about the toys that were being used at the time. Now kids play with emojis, so we'll do an emoji movie." or something like that.

[@mr_indie_fan]

I want a 4chan movie

[@SpringDavid]

the first time I heard of it, either it was people mad about it replacing the Popoye movie or a video talking about if it was going to be bad, I couldnt think of anything other than "this is going to suck so hard it will be legendary"

[@SpringDavid]

@@mr_indie_fan c h r i s c h a n. m o v i e

[@yko_7313]

@@mr_indie_fan that would have to be pg 13 at least to work well lol

[@ferretzim8694]

The troll part could have been framed differently, and maybe been somewhat more believable. If instead of supposedly being literal trolls, it would make more sense if they were chat messages by trolls. Wait, why am I trying to fix this dumpsterfire?

[@FloppyCat1990]

There is a severe lack of artistic value in movies. Did you really forget one of the MAIN reasons to completely trash this movie. Popeye was cancelled because of this movie, something that could have been an artistic masterpiece. I don't care how 'good' someone perceives it, the simple reason that Popeye was canned is reason enough. It wasn't just because it was a cash grab, it was because art was never created and lost forever.

[@Rokabur]

Someone did leak the incomplete version of Popeye and Sony is trying really hard to censor it.

[@MikeyFazboi]

No, man. The Emoji movie didn't cancel Popeye. The executives at Sony are just assholes.

[@thearbitar4458]

You gave me another reason to hate it. Now I hate it even more.

[@Mariorox1956]

To think we could have had a Genndy-animated Popeye. Thankfully the animatic exists online, but it's not enough. I'll never forgive Sony for this

[@bensoncheung2801]

111 👍

[@errordark18]

I'll admit that when I was a kid, when I saw the movie in theaters, I liked it. I even got it on Blu-Ray. But now as an adult, I realized how terrible it was, not to mention how similar it was to The LEGO Movie. And I still like The LEGO Movie to this day. I still have The Emoji Movie Blu-Ray, it's just sitting on my shelf, collecting dust throughout the years.

[@Purplesubmariner]

10:40 Actually yes, typically if a reset/download/whatever is not completely finished when cancelled, everything is kept the same. The progress is like a copy that is going on, getting files in the right place and taking what it needs, so at the very end it can finish off in a single swift action.

[@calypsothespirit]

Wow, hard to believe 2017 was 29 years ago. Time really flies huh.

[@elizabethsmith3374]

I'm confused 😓

[@camillalapolentona84480]

@@elizabethsmith3374 🗿

[@sunflowermink3110]

@@elizabethsmith3374 🐧🦅🦃

[@LannyLeArtist]

@@elizabethsmith3374 👹

[@Omnywrench]

First of all, I just wanna say that fart joke in the opening title was _perfectly_ timed. As for the Emoji Movie, the word "meh" perfectly sums it up. It's not the worst movie I've ever seen, but its probably the most thoughtless and cynical. There's not a single unique or creative idea to be found, in either the visuals or the writing. None of it is bad or incompetently made, but it's all so generic looking; every scene looks like it could have come from a commercial for an app, or maybe for car insurance. Mr. Enter summed it up well: character you design when you don't know how to draw telling a story you tell when you dont know how to write. Patrick Stewart as Poop was amusing, though. I could tell he certainly had fun voice acting.

[@princessravendiamond4288]

Patrick Stewart is basically the only good part of the movie. I loved his character so much and honestly made me chuckle

[@gamefan64]

I heard that they wanted Jordan Peele to voice the poop emoji. He was so insulted that he went on to quit acting and became a horror movie director

[@sweetbubblegum55]

@@gamefan64 the fact that in the very same year DreamWorks got Peele to voice a 10 year old

[@carterjames8829]

I feel terrible for the other studios that had to release movies in the same year as this one, specifically Pixar's Coco and Cars 3 (BTW, Coco is by far the best movie Pixar released since Up).

[@invaderpez12]

In all seriousness, its less about the movie itself and more what it represented. It represented the bottom of the barrel laziness of Sony to make a movie based on emojis of all things and trying desperately to appeal to the youngins without thinking about making a good movie first.

[@sterling7]

The movie was the embodiment of "Children are dumb, and don't have any taste anyway." Or a 10-degree riff on those "parody" movies that were basically a series of "thing that you heard of recently! Laugh!" references. Not only do kids deserve better, so do the adults who have to take them to these things.

[@denimvelvet4670]

Ah yes, from the company that has brought us such great hits as: The Angry Birds movies, the Smurfs movies, and the Open Seasons movies comes Emojis. I think one of the reasons I hated it is because Sony sometimes makes okay movies, but you can tell when they're hitting for something simple, quick, and trendy. This was one of those movies, and that was obvious from the start. It's not a bad movie. It's just a very bland movie. The sort that's pretty much as copy and paste as can get. Another main character that doesn't belong because they won't conform, a best friend who is basically a Patrick Star reskin, and then there's Wyldestyle...I mean Jailbreak.

[@ChirpyChips-vj4uo]

The angry birds movies were actually pretty good imo

[@MariOmor1]

@@ChirpyChips-vj4uo so were the Smurfs

[@Blackpapalink]

Open Season 1 is a guilty pleasure of mine. CN made me enjoy that movie and Son of the Mask.

[@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171]

@@MariOmor1 The Smurfs movies were Patrick's (I think that's his name) job story and the Smurfs are... there.

[@thesupervideogamenerdmore3171]

@@Blackpapalink Open Season 1 was good, 2 was alright, but 3 was awful. Angry Birds 1 was great, 2 was OK.

[@person4636]

My sister said such heartbreaking, mind changing, world changing words about this movie. “I wish they would make another emoji movie but with the meme emojis, like the vibe check one” I feel like I’m super based that I wanted to watch Coraline instead of this movie 💅

[@manifestationsofasort]

It's ironic to me that the Sony president said that the Emoji Movie was built for people under 18, since in my experience, teenagers were the biggest and meanest critics. I was in high school at the time and good God, it was the school's favorite punching bag for a good few months. They insulted it in ways the even harshest critics couldn't dream of.

[@MetalSonicReject]

“Were we too harsh on the Emoji Movie?” Considering what happened before the movie’s release, no. No we were not.

[@camillalapolentona84480]

My man, you have *four* bots on your replies. That's really unlucky

[@someonewholikesbfb10]

@@camillalapolentona84480 actually tho

[@Mateus_Carvalho]

@@camillalapolentona84480 Even better, one of those bots is literally named after KZbin. Amazing. That said, no, fuck that movie.

[@deponq]

:clueless:

[@fangier0]

We were.

[@spinstermimic]

I took an online class with an animator from Sony. Obviously they couldn't say anything because of NDA. But we asked if they were working on the Emoji Movie. The utter pain in that poor individual's face was enough of an answer.

[@deede2378]

Lesson of the film: kids, DONT pluck up the courage to say what you want to the person you like. USE YOUR PHONE!!!!!!!! Expression is for losers!!!!😂❤😂❤

[@welcometovibespace5596]

I remember being the type of kid that would love a bunch of stuff that is widely hated now, but even when I went to watch the emoji movie thinking it would be fun and cool I just remember staring at the screen thinking “oh it’s gotta get good eventually” until it just ended and left me completely underwhelmed even with my low standards, ever since then I am scared to try to bring my family to watch films that spark interest in the cinema, it was so awkward

[@misterzygarde6431]

I mean Hotdiggetydemon pointed out that many negative reviews were destructive rather than constructive. Plus he did write up an idea for how they could’ve made a film about Emoji’s work.

[@mago_malvado96]

BOTS

[@mago_malvado96]

BOTS

[@narottamcecil1803]

Looks like that guy you mentioned has given us hope for a good remake of “The Emoji Movie”.

[@pancakes8670]

There is a difference between just tearing something down and actually... providing criticism and offering ways that the art might improve. Hotdiggity Demon, Nerrel, Running Shine, even Saberspark at times are great reviewers for this reason as they try to think of ways that the art they're reviewing can improve. Doing this you cease to be a random asshole talking shit on the internet to becoming an active participant in the art itself. But of course, most people don't want to think of how things can improve. They just want something they can tear apart like a cat playing with a piece of tissue paper. Which is fine, it's ok to just take a break and have dumb fun, but don't expect to be taken seriously while doing it.

[@thevioletbee5879]

Didn’t he basically just restate the plot of Inside Out?

[@datlego3673]

I like this in depth movie take. Obviously Emoji Movie should stay in animation hell but it's nice to reconsider it because we were all high with emotions at the time. Maybe more "We were too hard" videos? (don't take it out of context hehe)

[@door-chan]

heheh we were too hard

[@xdsmile5359]

Ooooh nice choice of words there ;)

[@FishNamedOmelette]

“My grandma just died…” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Edit: guys I have no clue why I commented this

[@nopayoff3552]

Damn, this intro is something else, I am loving it, keep up the good work!

[@KatyJohnsonVO]

Thank you! That was me! hheehe

[@a-s-greig]

@@KatyJohnsonVO ya nailed it.

[@Kohdok]

I particularly liked where he said "It's Emojin' time" and then he just Emoji'd all over those guys.

[@cupio-stardust]

“Uhm actually, nobody said that in the entire duration of the movie.” -🤓

[@beadsontotes767]

Its the only good part of the emoji movie because it doesn't exist -🤓

[@samiam2003]

emoji'd? 💀

[@Oscar97o]

@@samiam2003 Covered them in emocum

[@KayKorTeeVee]

@@Oscar97o wh-

[@SebastianGMSFB]

I have always loved The Emoji Movie, and nobody can ever change my mind!

[@Bluecupcake_funko7]

It's just eh for me but I agree with you this comment is underrated

[@SebastianGMSFB]

@@Bluecupcake_funko7 thank you

[@Volothos]

I worked at a movie theater when Emoji Movie released. Shit was dead, it fell off at my location super quickly, and any time I took a peek out of curiosity I would leave the auditorium extremely disappointed and annoyed.

[@piegirl8263]

Saw this movie for the first time while I had a fever and the stomach flu. It was a lot better when I barely had enough coherence to get out of bed

[@MrGuyweinstein]

I watched it again 2 weeks ago and we didn't go hard enough on it. The people involved should be accused of warcrimes.

[@thecaptain6520]

Ok, Mr. Enter

[@scarababbeo9733]

@@thecaptain6520 No it's different, Mr Enter probably wanted to see war crimes

[@MrGuyweinstein]

@Sabersраrk 🅥 wholesome trolling is something I can get along with

[@SineN0mine3]

@@MrGuyweinstein These are bots, they generate some traffic to the page and sell it.

[@scpjack7856]

This was better timed than Saber realised. He uploaded this 2 days after the Queen died and as counterprogramming to her funeral Channel 5 in the UK showed the Emoji Movie and Stewart Little, and were applauded for doing so.

[@Lobstro]

I'm so happy you referenced jacksfilms's love of this movie! It was such a treat watching him express his totally sincere excitement for it. Sony even sent him some free merch and invited him to the premier.

[@jooree7696]

The over-exaggerated reaction to me is due to the fact it was released in 2017. At the time there weren't many ad movies like this. Today we have Space Jam 2, Ralph Breaks The Internet, Ready Player One, Playmobil Movie, maybe Chip N Dale. The movie is bad, of course, but it kinda fits with those movies

[@hassathunter2464]

Trash became a genre :(

[@jooree7696]

@@hassathunter2464 It always was. It just morphed

[@emblemblade9245]

Jooree it morbed :)

[@hassathunter2464]

@AT Productions Don't worry, I classified Ralph 2 as worse than Emoji before it was cool. It's shocking how people actually responded better to that just cause the Disney name was attached. Or how people cringe for Emoji and clap for Ralph 2... for the EXACT same joke made.

[@pudd1ng_bunn182]

@@hassathunter2464 Ralph 2 was just.. Hard to watch to say the least. Nearly everyone acted out of character

[@GalaxyGoo19]

I’m not even joking some old couple in the cinema started to cry when Gene’s parents reunited near the water fountain 💀✋

[@blackpfp69]

@Sabersраrk 🅥 fake

[@bugonboris6681]

Well, at least watching that Emoji Movie scene is better than watching people spam links in the replies...

[@GalaxyGoo19]

@@bugonboris6681 Oml I just got your notification and I find THIS MANY BOTS??? Yt needs to wake up and fix this ASAP

[@bubbachildsupport4535]

They were crying cause the movie was too ass 😂

[@SeraidenAF]

@@GalaxyGoo19 youtube still gets thair $$$ so they DGAF about the annoyance of the bots.

[@CatalinaLinal7710]

Looking back at it the whole "Girls only get to be princesses as emojis" really was a kinda weird approach of female empowerment, because I am a woman myself and I don't think I ever looked at a regular emoji (or smiley) in my life and actively associated it with the male gender by default. Emojis/smileys have always been inherently gender neutral because they literally just convey a damn emotion or a certain concept. Ironically this movie *itself* was the one claiming that every neutral looking face is automatically male and something needs to be explicitly female coded to be able to represent a woman. Because apparently something is only female if she wears makeup? I will not pretend like I remember what emoji selection existed in 2017 but at the very least regarding the regular emojis available the lack of female representation was a non issue because emojis didn't represent men either. Or was this about the professions? Where there already alot of profession emojis in 2017? 6 years is a century for technological development, I can't tell anymore

[@HikariMichi42]

I completely agree with you. By the way, I looked it up. It appears that in 2015 (when the movie first went into production), profession emojis were mostly non-gendered/gender-neutral, and princess emojis were indeed among the few explicitly female emojis at the time (one of the explicitly male emojis being Santa Claus). There were also not many profession emojis on the whole. So that must be what the movie is referring to. But when the movie finally came out (in 2017) this reference had already been rendered obsolete, as many more profession emojis had been introduced in the movie's production time and all were available in both male and female versions (gender-neutral versions of all profession emojis weren't introduced until later). Prince emojis and Mrs. Claus emojis had also been added. So that's a great example of why making a movie based on a current trend isn't the best idea. Innovations can happen very quickly, instantly dating your movie and alienating your audience. (I found this out by looking at relevant timestamps from the Unicode website in the Wayback Machine, I thought that would be the quickest and easiest way to answer your question.)

[@walkerj.7895]

I remember watching this movie as a joke with a girl for a date. We both expected it to be horrible, but we’re kind of shocked that it wasn’t completely abysmal. It was not near as bad as what people said it was, honestly I got the same enjoyment as I would an illumination movie. If I had to explain it in one emoji, it wouldn’t ironically be 😒

[@maleekey]

i agree 👍🏿

[@alexgomez6723]

For anyone above the age of 10 to uniorically enjoy this tasteless waste of cels and audio is sad and embarrassing.

[@angel_of_rust]

>enjoys illumidation uh huh

[@Bluecupcake_funko7]

​@@alexgomez6723I'm 11 and I like it people have opinions

[@Bluecupcake_funko7]

​​@gravityfanzz kinda agree it wasn't good but it also was bout as bad as toy story (toy story 1)

[@admiralbiatch1988]

I feel like this movie could have done better if they it more like Sausage Party (Emoji Party)? Maybe have a message about social media addiction, how emojis are essentially a symptom of not being able to communicate with people the "traditional" way, and you could also make jokes about a lot of our apps are pretty much just legal spyware with how much data they collect. However, I think that may be too on the nose for their sponsors.

[@dorothyallspice1862]

I would have KILLED to see that!

[@HedgehogY2K]

Actually when you unplug your device while something is deleting, it cancels out as I'm pretty deleting a file isn't actively removing anything midway. Unlike moving files over where the system moves 1 file at a time despite batch selecting them. Files aren't technically deleted and with a program you can actually recover deleted files.

[@HedgehogY2K]

@@McLarenMonocasy Thank you very much for that statement.

[@OblivionFalls]

Let's be honest... The Emoji Movie was not as bad as Wreck It Ralph 2.

[@x3no941]

9:19 HOLY SHIT I NEVER REALIZED SHE HAD A BODY

[@MrOakridge]

I haven't seen this movie, but the more I hear about it, the more it sounds like a carbon copy of Wreck-It Ralph, minus the soul that movie had. * Protagonist who is a character in a piece of software * Protagonist doesn't like their assigned role * Protagonist leaves their software to go on a journey of self-discovery * Protagonist ends up in a sugar-themed game * Protagonist gets a feisty female sidekick who dresses in very casual clothes * Overly smiley antagonist appears who wants to eliminate the protagonist * Threat of software being wiped and killing the characters therein * Female sidekick turns out to be a princess * Moral is about accepting who you are

[@graysonrogers-barnes6302]

Oh my god- you're right-

[@neilprice513]

There are two movies that signalled the beginning of the "Soulless cash grab" craze of cinema that we are still dealing with to this day. One was the Emoji Movie and the other was Ghostbusters 2016 and both were released by Sony at roughly the same time. Ghostbusters 2016 also heralded "Blame and attack the audience for not liking our bad product" marketing tactic that is still going strong today Rings of Power .

[@thedogfromraditude5449]

Movies were soulless cash grabs decades before those two movies existed. Ever heard of Michael Bay?

[@evilinterpol]

Souless cash grabs have been around since movies became widely accessible to their audiences … so since we started making them for profit. Blaming the audience is also not new, but a lot of emotionally stunted people have attached their prejudice and stacked it on top of the movies or shows other admittedly bad qualities, while loudly blasting their opinions🤦‍♀️ The motivations are not objectively any different than the last hundred years of cinema.

[@neilprice513]

@@thedogfromraditude5449 Soulless cash grab movies did exist before, but these two films were the movies that began the craze where almost EVERY movie was a soulless cash grab.

[@evilinterpol]

@@neilprice513 Thats far from accurate. Enter the spider verse literally came out just a few years later and was actually cared for by its animators and writers. 🤷‍♀️

[@vante2129]

@@thedogfromraditude5449 that's literally not the point he was making goofball just because someone talks badly about something does not mean they're ignoring everything else ya igit

[@juliancaraveo5700]

8:56 Everyone's reaction when this movie got made.

[@megaene]

I've seen this movie been described as "the worst movie ever made" and "the death of cinema", but it never really was (putting aside the fact that believing a single product could sink a whole industry by itself is pure horseshit). Sure, The Emoji Movie was bad, like really bad, and still is, but it's definitely not what it's been said. I have seen dozens of movies that are so much worse that, even if I wanted to, I couldn't count it among the 50 worst films I've ever seen.

[@swiftstreak98]

This movie does nothing but contribute to cellular addiction (which last I checked is a big problem)

[@swiftstreak98]

@the hevy Believe me as much as I prefer indoors I'm more addicted to cardio (still not a good thing but at least I try keeping busy), you?

[@alexgomez6723]

Even those harsh statements are giving this movie way too much credit, TEM will never be as impactful or culturally relevant as disasterpiece turkeys like Sharknado or the works of Neil Breen.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

The Emoji Movie is pretty bad, but attempting to murder someone over liking the movie is pretty exaggerated to the core, which I thought it's sort of a meme thing. I can say the same thing with Teen Titans GO! or Johnny Test, which both are not even close to being considered as the "worst show of all time", but there goes to even worst shows like _The Prince_ or Comedy Central's _Fairview._

[@fatfingerguy-]

@@poweroffriendship2.0 2:55 It's you!

[@typicalfangirl2001]

I remember my siblings watching the movie, and I was just sitting around being lazy. Not even 20 minutes into the movie I left because what I was seeing was just so appalling. I hadn't had any previous knowledge about the movie, meaning I was only influenced by the movie itself. A lower-mediocre movie at best, absolute trash at worst.

[@bridgetmessina4462]

Everyone: Wow! That emoji movie was the most beautiful, creative, and unique thing I have ever seen. The characters and story were perfectly executed and there wasn’t a product placement in sight. Sony: Everyone loves our emoji movie! It’s got some of the highest ratings of all time! Unfortunately, it made zero dollars in the box office.

[@Lian3795]

I like to think they made Spider-Verse as an apology.

[@TheNightmareAngelYT]

Something that I saw people pissed off at was the fact that the comic relief character (the high five guy) defeated the main villain by turning off the robot she was using to kill the girl character. Also, who voiced the intro for this video? She clearly couldn't have said the word "poop emojie" in a serious voice with one take! "I smell it in the air" 'fart sound' got a lol out of me