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Cast
- T.J. MillerGene (voice)
- James CordenHi-5 (voice)
- Anna FarisJailbreak (voice)
- Maya RudolphSmiler (voice)
- Steven WrightMel Meh (voice)
- Jennifer CoolidgeMary Meh (voice)
- Jake T. AustinAlex (voice)
- Christina AguileraAkiko Glitter (voice)
- Sofía VergaraFlamenco Dancer (voice)
- Patrick StewartPoop (voice)
Recommendations
- 40
Variety
There have been worse ideas, but in this case the execution isn’t good enough to bring the notion of an emoji movie to funky, surprising life. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
If not always imaginative or digestible, the look of the settings and characters should keep kids awake for 86 minutes; and if the trick that eventually saves the day makes very little sense to critical moviegoers, at least it's cutely frantic eye candy. - 25
IndieWire
The most distressing aspect about The Emoji Movie is that a spectacle this self-evidently soulless no longer feels like a new low. It doesn’t even leave a dent. - 25
The A.V. Club
There was probably never going to be a version of this film that would prove even remotely plausible as a movie someone felt passionately about making for artistic reasons; as far as expanding on smartphone-related IP, this is an even weaker starting point than Sony Animation’s recent The Angry Birds Movie. - 10
ScreenCrush
There are plenty of words that can describe The Emoji Movie. Here are a few of them: Unfunny. Saccharine. Nonsensical. Painful. And, of course, crappy. (If you prefer the poop emoji, that works too.) - 10
Screen Daily
A film as mindless and disposable as most smartphone apps — and nowhere near as addictive — Sony’s animated The Emoji Movie is a calamitous comedy that inadvertently shows how difficult it is to pull off the witty, imaginative world-building that Pixar makes seem so breezy. - 10
Vox
The Emoji Movie is a waste of time, resources, and a bunch of comedians’ voices, plus a premise that actually had the potential to do some small good in the world. It’s less of a movie and more of an insult. - 0
TheWrap
It is a soul-crushing disaster because it lacks humor, wit, ideas, visual style, compelling performances, a point of view or any other distinguishing characteristic that would make it anything but a complete waste of your time, not to mention that of the diligent animators who brought this catastrophe into being.
