The Emoji Movie (2017) on Netflix
PG20171h 26mAdventureAnimationComedyFamilyFantasy
Inside Alex's smartphone lies Textopolis, where every emoji has one expression except Gene, who has many. When Alex picks him to send a message, Gene panics and wrecks the text center.
- Netflix3.1/5
- IMDb3.5/1081,238 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes6%
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Plot summary
Gene is an emoji in Textopolis, the city inside the phone of middle school student Alex. His parents, the meh emojis Mel and Mary, hesitate to let him go to work, but Gene wants to feel useful. He can make more than one expression, which no other emoji can, and it leaves him an outcast. When Alex receives a text from his love interest Addie McCallister and chooses Gene to reply, Gene panics, pulls a strange face and wrecks the text center. Smiler, the smiley head of the text center, declares him a malfunction and sets bots on him. Hi-5, a once-popular emoji now stuck in the Loser Lounge, rescues him and tells him a hacker could fix him; the pair set out, Hi-5 hoping to win back his fame.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Emoji Movie (2017)
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- Jordan Peele said he was offered the voice role of Poop, the part that ultimately went to Patrick Stewart, and that being offered it led to his decision to retire from acting.
- The Emoji Movie and DreamWorks Animation's Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie were picked to reopen cinemas in Saudi Arabia with a double feature in January 2018, becoming the first films publicly screened there in 35 years.
- At the 38th Golden Raspberry Awards, The Emoji Movie won Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Screen Combo and Worst Screenplay, becoming the first animated film to win in those categories and the third animated film ever to take a Razzie.
- The film had a production time of two years, shorter than most other animated features, because of concerns that it would become outdated as smartphone technology kept evolving.
- The first teaser trailer, released on December 20, 2016, drew overwhelming criticism from social media users, collecting almost 22,000 dislikes against 4,000 likes within its first 24 hours.
- Sony Pictures was criticized after the film's official Twitter account posted a promotional picture parodying The Handmaid's Tale with the Smiler emoji; the image was called tasteless and deleted.
- T.J. Miller was announced as the film's lead voice on World Emoji Day in July 2016; Leondis had created the part with Miller in mind, and Miller only accepted after Leondis briefed him on the story.
