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Hidden within the messaging app is Textopolis, a bustling city where all your favorite emojis live, hoping to be selected by the phone’s user. In this world, each emoji has only one facial expression – except for Gene (T.J. Miller), an exuberant emoji who was born without a filter and is bursting with multiple expressions. Determined to become “normal” like the other emojis, Gene enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 (James Corden) and the notorious code breaker emoji Jailbreak (Anna Faris). Together, they embark on an epic “app-venture” through the apps on the phone, each its own wild and fun world, to find the Code that will fix Gene. But when a greater danger threatens the phone, the fate of all emojis depends on these three unlikely friends who must save their world before it’s deleted forever.
Directed by Tony Leondis. Written by Tony Leondis & Eric Siegel and Mike White. Produced by Michelle Raimo Kouyate.
The Emoji Movie is a 3D film produced by and distributed by, released on July 28, 2017 (originally set for August 4th). It is the second theatrical film to be directed by Tony Leondis (known for and the direct-to-video ). The film centers largely around the called emojis. The film's setting is inside the core of a teenager's smartphone.
One of the smartphone's residents is Gene , a meh emoji who discovers he has the ability to make multiple expressions, an ability that no other emoji has and one that proves to be dangerous to the entire smartphone. Destined to fit in with the rest of the emojis, he teams up with his friend Hi-Five (James Corden) and ends up on an adventure of a lifetime alongside the rebellious Jailbreak , blazing through various smartphone apps and meeting other emojis along the way to discover his meaning. It was first revealed under the working title Emojimovie: Express Yourself at CinemaCon 2016, a year after Sony won the rights to develop a movie based off the emojis. The teaser trailer can be viewed. The first official trailer can be viewed, and the second can be viewed. Apart from an 8% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the movie is also accused of being so that it was out of date shortly before its release (Sony had just released its new brand of Emojis, making all the characters in the movie effectively ).: Whether or not Jailbreak has legitimate feelings for Gene but doesn't want to express things so soon, or whether she only likes him as a friend, is never truly resolved, as Gene expressing his feelings to her is never brought up again afterwards.: Casual cell phone games threaten to kill the protagonists if they lose.:. Poop is played by Sir Patrick Stewart himself and got his own character poster as well as appearances in most of the trailers and TV spots.
He has about five lines in the movie, all of which are either puns or punchlines. The same goes for the devil emoji, who got his own poster as well, despite having about as much screentime and lines as Poop (if not less).: Gene is looked down upon among his fellow emojis because of his ability to make multi-facial expressions. And just like in the song, he only gains full acceptance once his quirk becomes useful. Interestingly enough, many Emojis don't see this kind of behaviour as abnormal. There's also a section in phones for dozens of emojis that either no one uses or are just misfits in general.:. The Just Dance host, who while not named in the movie itself, is named in the credits as Akiko Glitter. The Flamenco-dancing emoji that shows up several times is named Flamenca.
Alex's friend's name is Travis according to the credits. And the teacher's name is Mr. Though not in the credits, Addie is the only human character with a last name.: The phone has trolls living in it. It's presumably a reference to internet trolls, but those are people, not software.: Probably one of the along with There is also a a message an of a lesson about not being a a subtle and to top it off, we get a good helping of.: Gene and Jailbreak's paths both involve learning that it's unacceptable to change the identity that they were born with. Even if said identities nearly cause the deletion of their home world or.:. Alex is able to stop the factory reset process mid-way, a feat impossible under normal circumstances. The Emojis could still be recovered later on, as phones lack the capacity to delete their data.
The main conflict is that Alex needs to takes his phone to a store to get it factory reset when. As noted by more than a few reviewers, smartphones do not have Firewalls!.
Emojis are not confined to SMS apps like the film seems to imply. All they are are blocks of Unicode, and can be placed anywhere that has a text field. The princess emojis. The main plot point of 'Emojis can only convey one emotion' is not exactly true. Ignoring that, plenty of emojis have been used to express different things, either ironically or unintentionally (the eggplant emoji being a popular example of this). Yes, there's a lot of emojis that only have one meaning and are solely used for that meaning, but it's far from what the movie seems to portray.
Dropbox is. Not saying they don't have procedures to prevent it from happening, but still. The emoji are able to interact with Internet trolls, even though trolls are real people and not smartphone programs.
There's no such thing as a 'hacker' emoji, and there's no equivalent. This is to Jailbreak actually being a princess emoji. One scene has. Again, there's no such emoji.
Akiko Glitter looks nothing like an actual Just Dance character. Smartphones do not use Recycle Bins for file deletion.: The phone store attendant asks Alex this if he really wants to delete everything on the phone. His response is simply, 'Do it!' .: The internet trolls spend all of their screen-time being obnoxious to the protagonists.
When they end up getting sent to the dump, it's hard to feel sorry for them.: Smiler, who attempts to have Gene erased.: For Emoji, duh.: Hi-5 has a compulsion to hit these.:. Hi-5 screams this as he is in the trash, complete with a Skyward Scream.
Mel and Mary shout this as they throw themselves in front of Gene as Smiler's bot prepares to delete him. In contrast to Mel's which is loud and serious, Mary's is rather slow and drawn out, of the kind.: Gene screams this when Mel considers not letting him go to work. Overlaps with.:.: In the text center, once an emoji is being scanned, it cannot be cancelled.: 'Feel This Moment' plays during the, though Akiko Glitter is played.: Though the opening credits are shown, the movies title isnt displayed until before the credits start.: People don't usually want smartphones that they want phones that promptly follow their commands at all times. Thus, the movie presents where it makes sense for Smiler to want Gene deleted for a relatively small transgression. And yet the movie never truly calls out this system based entirely around serving an owner, despite the fact that the Emojis were momentarily deleted.
Also, a film filled with constant is a terrible way to get across social commentary about smartphones.:. An ice cream Emoji tells a story about a falling out he had with his boss over his job, and says 'It's such a load of—' before. Finish that sentence. When the giant robotic hand used to scan the emojis breaks down, the scene cuts to different emojis and their reactions, one of which is the Poop Emoji, who shouts out 'OH SH-' before being cut off.: Gene's 'malfunction' (the ability to change faces) allows him to evade the bots by making himself look like a different emoji.: Surprised Kitty makes a cameo.: It's worth noting, however, that there's another dance-heavy sequence in the middle of the movie.: Gene's father, Mel Meh Emoji. Given that he's voiced by none other than, this makes complete sense.: The store where Alex books his phone appointment is called 'Wireless Wireless'.: While Gene is in the men's room having a talk with his parents before going to work, a bathroom door slams him in the face to let Poop and his son out.
When he gets hit, he makes the 'dazed, x eyes' face.: Gene does it, complete with a, when Mel tells him he shouldn't go to work. Smiler later does one when Gene freaks out upon being scanned for Alex's text message to Addie.: All over the place in the film's advertising.: The Meh parents can't even raise the pitch of their voices even when something dramatic is going on.: Despite being temporarily blacked out of existence, most of the Emojis celebrate Gene as a hero because he fixes the problem that he himself caused.: Addie McAlister asks Alex out to the dance because his phone sent an emoji. This somehow makes Alex stand apart from the teenagers who constantly use their phones.: The characters' eyes have a rather pixelated design on their irises, and the catchlights are light blue and rectangular, resembling phone screens.:. Jailbreak's outfit and personality are very reminiscent of. Others have noted similarities in appearance to that of.
On top of that, she's highly derivative of; a tough-talking female misfit who can hack the code of the electronic setting, and is secretly a princess. A design for Akiko Glitter was pretty much just colored purple and with trousers instead of a skirt.: Gene has one as he is waking up inside the 'special candy' jar and Hi-5 assures him that he's alive and well.:, then played straight. At first nobody cares that Gene is walking down the street while making more than one facial expression. But just before he arrives for work, he is called out by a few Emojis for laughing. Then this is taken as Smiler sends the bots to for.: Akiko Glitter screams and claws for her life as she is deleted. She is later shown in the trash, weeping, and is presumably erased from existence at midnight.
Sweet dreams, children!.: A female angel emoji is seen hanging out with a male devil emoji several times throughout the movie.: Pretty much all of the characters never undergo much throughout the film, especially Hi-5, who remains a narcissist even after learning the value of friendship. Alex stands out even more for not standing out, having no discernible character traits beyond being a generic teenager. And yet the film wants us to care about his romantic subplot with Addie.:. Jailbreak is said to have helped a Princess emoji out and Hi-5 comments he never heard of a Jailbreak emoji before. Jailbreak turns out to be the Princess. There are a few unnoticeable hints that Mel is a malfunction just like Gene:.
After Gene destroys the text center and Smiler questions if he even is a Meh at all, Mel tells her he's his 'spitting image'. While Mel and Mary are in the app and Mel notices the bots, he looks somewhat purely shocked rather than unamused.: Alex's phone store appointment is at 4:00, which is when the phone is to be erased.: Count the subplots. Gene and later learning to Jailbreak understanding that she shouldn't value freedom. Hi-5 learning to stop being a And while this is going on, we Smiler's bots are hunting down Gene, Alex is trying to ask Addie to the school dance and Gene's parents are having relationship issues.: Smiler's time in power was cut short during the climax and the other Emojis learn that it's perfectly acceptable to make more than one facial expression, yet the Loser Lounge hasn't been disbanded.
The implication is that the Emojis are still segregated by their singular roles.: A very literal case. In a rare, non- related example, two of the emoji girls showcased in the are clearly meant to be Playboy bunnies.