Somebody liked the Emoji Movie!

[Asriel Dreemurr]

A teenage film critic named Imani B.G. rated the film 4 out of 5 stars. Honestly, I think it is absolutely critical that she prepares for the flame wars in the comment section. I don't understand her opinion, but I will respect it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJJ4F6oOQ8A

[Jade Harley]

It was a silly idea, kind of a rip-off of Inside Out and about as ridiculously weird as Bee Movie, but it gets the "teaching lessons about life to children" part done, I guess. Still don't like the idea and wouldn't take any of my spawn to see it, though. Just. We already gave emotions emotions, don't give emojis emotions.

[Guu]

Eh, I'm not really interested in the movie, though I wouldn't judge people who enjoy it. Most of the shit we watch today exist only to sell merchandise (every super hero film), the Emoji movie is just being waaaay more blatant about it. It's just the world we live in, and people have a problem with it, vote with your wallet.

[All Might]

Eh, the Emoji movie is a test of concept- will audiences see a movie that is purely, 100%, an excuse to shove as much product placement as theoretically possible into 70 minutes? The answer- hopefully no. Even if Emoji movie was just average, instead of bad, (and it *IS* bad, according to nearly all reviewers) I'd be against people seeing it because of what it would mean for the future of having product placements shoved in our face.

[Victor Wolfe]

Eh, the Emoji movie is a test of concept- will audiences see a movie that is purely, 100%, an excuse to shove as much product placement as theoretically possible into 70 minutes? The answer- hopefully no. Even if Emoji movie was just average, instead of bad, (and it *IS* bad, according to nearly all reviewers) I'd be against people seeing it because of what it would mean for the future of having product placements shoved in our face.

Eh this has been happening for a while, look at Man of Steel, when it wasn't trying to cram more Jesus imagery than your average Christian rock concert, or sucking off the US military (Transformers do this too) It was filled to the brim with product placement. Unfortunately, most audiences just apparently want to see things blowing up and will buy these trash films because "the action scenes were good"

Not seen the Emoji movie yet, hopes are not high but who knows, sometimes the lowered expectations can acutally make me appreciate a movie more.

[All Might]

But the Emoji movie takes that to a whole new level. It isn't just that there's product placement in the background of every scene, the characters, the vehicles, the locations, the entirety of the story is LITERALLY constructed from product placement. They ride on the twitter logo, they visit famous apps, as locations, and the whole time it's constantly, directly, insulting it's audience for essentially being teenagers and using technology, while simultaneously advertising everything about phones.

Reviewers have called it boring, bad but in an explicitly not "so bad it's good way" just plain, ordinary bad, they have called it lazy, uninspired, and a rip-off of Inside Out except without any of the soul. For the last few day's it's had a rotten tomatoes score of 0%, and it's still well below 10%. It's just... not worth anyone's time. And people are still giving it money to watch it 'ironically'. If the movie breaks even, it sends the message to people making movies that they can break even selling people an effortlessly made pile of crap and advertisements.