REVIEW

With the inauguration of the internet and with the

advancement of technology the human race receive a present
from the depths of the zeroes and ones which built and still build
everything. The present was The Emoji Movie.

As far as I can remember, I've always felt hatred towards

how putrid emojis are in my eyes- drawn with zero to none effort
and allegedly displaying types of emotions which can strengthen
the feelings in a message. But, truly, how is one supposed to feel
anything else but confussion and horror upon seeing the following
emoji:

Back on topic. My friends know about my opinion on those demonic things

and obviously I was invited to the movie projection. I did not have high
hopes and yet, I was still openly disappointed in what I wasted my 7 lv. of
a ticket on.“The Emoji Movie” begins with a high school freshman named
Alex. Alex has a problem: He doesn’t know how to talk to girls. Maybe he’s
self-conscious about the fact that he still looks like he’s 10, or maybe he’s
just one of those simpletons who still tries to write his love notes with
actual letters (“words aren’t cool” one character snarks at the start of a
story that never argues otherwise). Literacy is for losers, Alex. Fortunately
for our hero, he’s got a secret weapon hiding in his pants: a smartphone.
And inside that smartphone there’s a whole world of trademarked
ideograms just waiting to help him electronically harass his crush.Just like
that, we’re transported to the magical land of Textopolis (essentially just a
communistic ripoff of Monstropolis from “Monsters, Inc.,” to continue the
Pixar thievery). In Textopolis, each emoji is born with one very particular
function, and their only purpose in life is to wait for their phone’s user to
summon them into action. There’s no such thing as freedom or upward
mobility; every emoji is simply endowed with the characteristics they
represent. The laughing face is always laughing, even when it breaks an
arm, the sad face is always sad, even when it wins the lottery, and so on.
This leads to some very painful gags (the monkey emojis are always
monkeying around!), and a small handful of amusing puns (the old-
fashioned emoticons are elderly citizens, one of whom gripes about his
sore colon).

Important note here: Gene is not your typical one sided (or in this case
one feeled) emoji, no, no, he is on a whole another level: he may have
been labelled a "meh" emoji, but he also has the gift of showing other
expressions and he switches through them like Sonic collects his magic
rings. I shall not spoil more of the movie, however, I will add something
more: A technical advancement was considered to never disappoint. But
that view was bent and broken into a million CGI filled pieces.