The Emoji Movie has hit the silver screens and the reviews of it are, well, interesting at best. Despite doing well in terms of box office ($34 million as of August 2), it has left the viewers confused, disappointed, and in deep doubt about the future of humanity. That’s right, folks – apparently, The Emoji Movie is really bad. ☹️ ??
We haven’t seen it yet, and let’s be honest – we won’t actually see it, but we feel for all the movie critics who had no choice but to do their job and review the picture. We wouldn’t be surprised if many of them actually considered switching careers and taking jobs as baristas at local cafes where their work would be less stressful.
Kaitlyn Tiffany and Lizzie Plaugic of The Verge said, “The Emoji Movie is so bad, it made us yell at strangers on the street”, and that was just one of the many, many, many bad reviews of the movie. The title’s Rotten tomatoes rating is 6%, and the one on IMDB is 1.5 (we don’t think we’ve seen a number so low before). Ouch.
As it would appear, the storyline is super lame, the humor is too basic even for the most basic of people, the animations is just ok but nothing spectacular, and the soundtrack invokes the puke emoji. It seems that there is literally nothing that can save the movie
Our hearts go to T.J. Miller, Sofia Vergara, Sir Patrick Stewart and Anna Faris, who star are in the movie as voice over artist, as well as to the rest of the cast. We understand that all people make mistakes, and we still like them enough as actors.
As usual, we took it to Twitter to measure the pulse of the average viewer, and we selected for you some of the funniest tweets about Sony Pictures’ fiasco of a movie.
20+ Funniest Tweets about The Emoji Movie
There were the people who chose to be politically correct and suggest that others would give the movie bad reviews:
https://twitter.com/ohjoshtomlinson/status/889986321674104832
Then there were the ones that thought the movie was bad but still believe Sony Pictures can make it up to us (by making another possibly disastrous movie):
Dear @SonyPictures – Please make this a movie in 2018. You made the #EmojiMovie, so you kinda owe us a solid… #SexyBenjamin #passpartout pic.twitter.com/OyNCy2Ugs1
— Jazza (@JosiahBrooks) August 2, 2017
Some viewers used the opportunity to make a commentary about the world we live in, and to express doubts about the future of humanity:
https://twitter.com/Herbs1996/status/893195701685035008
How did humans make both fargo & the emoji movie this is like if beavers also built cathedrals
— Sarah Lazarus (@sarahclazarus) July 31, 2017
Sofia Vergara hugs poo at the #EmojiMovie premiere because that's the world we live in now. https://t.co/tfHKEpMoVN pic.twitter.com/CGOKqfo2Lr
— Tom & Lorenzo (@tomandlorenzo) July 25, 2017
Imagine getting nuked and the last thing you did was watch the Emoji Movie? ?
— ookay (@Ookay) July 29, 2017
There were tweets that relied on good, old, plain sarcasm:
https://twitter.com/Imafrogfeckoff/status/893463945788489730
I loved the #EmojiMovie, the part where the kid dropped his phone into the toilet, and everybody drowned was a nice touch.
— RidingOutTheWinterHub (@AltHistoryHub) July 28, 2017
Some filmmakers (wrong): Children have rich inner lives & can appreciate nuance
Makers of the emoji movie (correct): Kids are fucking stupid— official pixelated boat facebook account (@pixelatedboat) August 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/dimpledodie/status/893467064471617537
Some viewers had suggestions about alternative movie endings and sequels:
The Emoji Movie is the cringiest movie ever ? what's next a movie about a fidget spinner that can't spin
— lex (@lexoynce) August 1, 2017
@Mister_Batfleck I think I have the perfect alternate ending to the emoji movie pic.twitter.com/TeBst0WFUe
— General Sionis (@Gifist88) August 1, 2017
There were the ones who drew a parallel between the picture and the current political situation in the USA:
The emoji movie is nearly universally hated but it somehow made money and won't go away. Reminds me of someone…
— Michael (@Home_Halfway) August 3, 2017
Others simply blamed unfriendly governments for the movie:
North Korea hacked Sony Pictures again. They sent out The Emoji Movie to all cinemas using our servers. We did not make that movie, honest!
— Ex-CEO Kaz Hirai (@KazHiraiCEO) July 31, 2017
And just like the current POTUS was predicted by The Simpsons, so was this movie:
The Simpsons predicted the emoji movie pic.twitter.com/D0TxYfA70t
— Gyro Zippeli #GOW (@os005ma) July 28, 2017
One twitter user noted that the movie is so bad, no one bothered to pirate it:
The Emoji Movie is so bad that no one has tried to pirate it. pic.twitter.com/5N0LCW9NQV
— Roger Filmyer (@rfilmyer) July 30, 2017
Then there was the dad that blames the movie for making him hate his kids:
https://twitter.com/burnie/status/891738012773756929
Anna Faris and Chris Pratt, who were both cast in the movie, just announced they are splitting up and the reason seems obvious:
https://twitter.com/anneeclair/status/894580403155197952
Some found that the title would have been better even as a dry documentary:
i wish the emoji movie was a dry documentary about the history of unicode and text encodings
— Normal Valerie (@valeriehalla) August 5, 2017
There was the girl that decided to use it as a measurement of ugliness or stupidity:
i may be ugly n stupid but at least im not The Emoji Movie (2017)
— common sad girl (@sadgirlkms) August 5, 2017
Ant then there were all the sex jokes:
The Emoji Movie was a masterpiece, though I did find the bukkake scene to be a bit out of place.
— Brandon Calvillo (@BJCalvillo) July 28, 2017
'I've been a very bad girl,' she said, biting her lip. 'I need to be punished.'
'Very well,' he said, and took her to see The Emoji Movie.— 50 Nerds of Grey (@50NerdsofGrey) August 6, 2017
i saw the emoji movie and thought about the emojis having sex and it ruined both emojis and sex for me
— miel (@miel) August 5, 2017
But not everyone thought the movie was bad – there was this one guy who really enjoyed himself:
'Emoji Movie' audience member accused of pleasuring himself during screening in New Jersey https://t.co/JcQHKXSLXJ pic.twitter.com/4oJitquBYD
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) August 3, 2017
No, not that guy:
I was not the guy masturbating in theater to the emoji movie, you can stop tweeting the article at me. I did it in the comforts of my home.
— Shädman? (@Shadbase) August 4, 2017
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