The Emoji Movie (3D)

Not Easy Being Meh.

The Emoji Movie unlocks the never-before-seen secret world inside your smartphone. Hidden within the messaging app is Textopolis, a bustling city where all your favourite emojis live, hoping to be selected by the phone’s user. In this world, each emoji has only one facial expression - except for Gene, an exuberant emoji who was born without a filter and is bursting with multiple expressions. Determined to become ’’normal’’ like the other emojis, Gene enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 and the notorious code breaker emoji Jailbreak. Together, they embark on an epic ’’app-venture’’ through the apps on the phone, each its own wild and fun world, to find the Code that will fix Gene. But when a greater danger threatens the phone, the fate of all emojis depends on these three unlikely friends who must save their world before it’s deleted forever. This film was famously part of RottenTomatoes ’’Zero’’ club for a while. At the time of writing, it comes in at number 29 on the IMDB’s Bottom 100 list. This film is releasing in 2D and 3D. This is the 3D version.

87 minutes.
Parental Guidance.
Adventure, Animated, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi.

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

How could you lose your pants?

Credits

Cast	Voices of T.J. Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris, Maya Rudolph, Steven Wright, Jennifer Coolidge, Patrick Stewart, Christina Aguilera, Sofía Vergara,
Director	Tony Leondis
Screenplay	Tony Leondis, Eric Siegel, Mike White
Music	Patrick Doyle
Editing	William J. Caparella
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, DTS, Dolby Atmos
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2017
Produced by	Columbia Pictures, LStar Capital, Sony Pictures Animation

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Animated
Language	None
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	None
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments
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USA MPAA rating

PG: Parental Guidance Suggested	Rated PG for some rude humor
Runtime	86
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 6 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Geoffrey MacNab No smiley face, more thumbs-down emoji.	5
24.com Bronwyn McKay If I could give one piece of advice about this movie, it would be don't go.	5
ScreenIt T. Durgin I have to say I was surprised that the film was more of a near-miss than an outright disaster.	8
Metacritic.com 26 critics	2
Rottentomatoes critics 95 critics	5
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer 🚫	2
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	5
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation Positive messages, but colorful adventure is only ’’meh.’’	10
What the People say
Metacritic.com users 431 users	3
Rottentomatoes users 19347 users	8
IMDB 18999 Netizens	4
The Movie DB Community	11
Average .. 28%	6