The thing that makes this Emoji movie worse than all the examples brought up before is that, while those movies are all definitely cynical pieces of trash, at least they advertise something. Angry Birds is an ad for the game, Garbage Pail Kids is an ad for the cards, but what about Emoji movie? What does it advertise? Smartphones in general? Emojis aren’t owned by anyone, so who benefits? The studio didn’t even have to put forth the effort to get the rights for an IP, they’re just lazily throwing together a cynical heap of garbage simply because they can.
🆗, I think that’s enough B😂tching for 1⃣ night.
I think it’s sad that this movie will likely make megabucks, when so many great films are flopping nowadays.