Did you know that the Emojis
that live in your phone have to go around making that same stupid face they’re
known for all the time? It’s true. One Emoji, Meh (T.J. Miller) bucks the trend
and tries to show the world a range of emotions. However, when he makes the wrong face in the
text window of the phone, it causes his user to think the phone is broken. He then goes to get the phone erased and Meh
and his friend Hi-5 (James Corden) have to try to upload themselves to “The Cloud”
before they are deleted for good.
As far as movies based
on smiley faces go, The Emoji Movie isn’t as bad as it could’ve been. It takes a barely-there premise and serves up
a couple of laugh-out-loud moments along the way. I admit that some parts were cleverer than I expected. Then again, my expectations were already
pretty low to begin with. In Emoji
speak, it’s more “meh” than “poop”, but there’s not a lot of “heart”.
Then again, it’s hard
to completely hate any movie in which the always awesome Steven Wright is
perfectly cast as Meh’s father. I also
got a kick out of seeing Patrick Stewart playing “Poop”. Too bad they didn’t give him any “Number One”
jokes.
It’s Hi-5 though who
gets the best line when he says, “This is like that time Peace Sign only gave
me one finger!”
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