The Emoji Movie is, well, an animated movie about emojis. And it’s one of the fiercely panned movies
this year. Still, I decided to give it a chance. I thought that maybe I would get to like it, since it’s not unusual for me to like movies that critics hated (one of best examples: Gods of Egypt). I just have to frame my expectations to reasonable
levels. I wasn’t at all considering that
it could be something surprisingly awesome like The Lego Movie. In fact, I knew it’s going to be bad. But, considering that it’s animation,
there’s the chance that it has enough to appeal to children. And if so, I hoped that it would, at best,
meet the minimum standards to please the inner child in me.
I actually enjoyed the first
seven minutes. In that span, I genuinely
thought the puns were clever, and the jokes were funny. It was an optimistic start. It was as if it could turn out being one of
those instances where a film is actually not as awful as critics deem it to be.
However, after that, it got worse
and worse – depreciating down the line to a boring rip-off of a
knock-off (yep, the redundancy is intended) of an uninspired fan fiction amalgamation
of Wreck-It Ralph, The Lego Movie, and Inside Out.
In the end, it’s perfectly summed
up by these two emojis:
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