Top 10 Reasons Why the Emoji Movie Will Fail

The Emoji movie is a animated movie set for release in 2017. It is yet another excuse to be hip and cool and nothing absolutely nothing about this bucket of 💩 sounds like a good idea. So here are reasons why this can not be a good movie.
The Top Ten
1 No one asked for it.

I hated emojis enough, and then when I was going to see the movie Sing, the trailer for this came on. I hadn't ever known about it until then, and I was so pissed. It's gonna be awful, and everyone except the kids in my grade know it. I can't wait for critics to pan this movie.

I first heard they were making an emoji movie last year. I thought it was gonna be some stupidly long YouTube video that had poorly animated stock emojis. Lol nope. Its an actual movie, or should I say pandering, lazy, cash-grab.

Even though it's a charity The Smiley Company would've made a better movie. Just call it Smiley World or something.

2 Even the people behind it know it will fail.

One of Sony's latest movies Rough Night, was a huge failure at the box office, I mean the movie had some redeeming factors but not enough to save it's self from failing! That movie was a waste of talent and very cliched! I could say the same thing about "The Emoji Movie", very cliched and a waste of talent, but with less redeeming factors. Sony, stop putting marketing over substance!

The only person who thought it would fail was Patrick Stewart. Other then that, everybody loved it.

Just check out the first trailer, it has little to nothing about the plot.

3 It's another attempt at being hip and cool.

Clearly it's a 'bums on seats' move, probably rush released seeing as emojis are very popular now, yet the best they could do for a trailer so far is a boring sad emoji scene and a cringeworthy attempt at humour (yes, featuring a poo emoji). How else could they get any more desperate for money than this?

Just because something is popular at the time doesn't mean they have to make a movie out of it. Imagine if, back in 2016, they made a movie about dabbing or a movie about fidget spinners this year.

Wow! I guess teenagers use emojis SO much, we should make a movie of them! Hey, I have an idea! Since teenagers use cigarettes, we should make a movie of those too!

Do you want a fortnite movie too? you always have the pile of BS that is Ralph breaks the internet. emoji movie for life. FORTNITE SUCKS!

4 Clichéd plot

There's literally nothing original about this movie. All the plot points are taken from other better movies - like the "world within a world" from Inside Out, the jumping from app to app motif that was ripped off of Wreck it Ralph and the cliche moral of personal individuality from the Lego Movie, which by the way was done a thousand times better. The difference is that this is a movie about emojis. This movie just seems so lazy and incredibly unoriginal as if the writers did not even try to come up with anything better. The only positive thing I can say about The Emoji Movie is that the animation looks nice and that the voice acting is passable. But that is not saying much. Because overall this is nothing but a cash grab. There's nothing interesting, or fresh, or witty, or even new - just a mixture of used plot devices all rolled into one. Also the moral is really cheesy. Like we get it, it's good to be different. Stop shoving this down our throats, Sony!

Yeah, this is just ...more

The character Jailbreak is pretty much that one feminist sidekick who the main character falls in love with. Cliche much?

Based on what we know so far it seems like another, don't change who you are and you are great just the way you are story.

It's a shameless ripoff of great films Inside Out, Wreck It Ralph, and the Lego Movie.

5 It's a ridiculous idea for a movie

Even the trailers can't make this movie's plot look any less of an utter mess.

I seriously hope this isn't the future of movies!

True, using emojis on comments is decent, but making a movie about it?

The Emoji Movie. What a ridiculous idea!

6 It was dead on arrival

Perhaps we could forgive it a little more if it came out when emojis were still popular. What's next? The Pokemon Go Movie?

7 They scrapped the popeye movie in favor of it.

Really? Popeye was one of my favorite cartoons and is way better than some face symbols. They should have never scrapped it. It looks way better than this movie.

They didn't can this for the Emoji movie. They canceled it way before they got the rights to the Emoji Movie. It was only coincidence that when Gendy left, they got the rights. Really that is it.

Popeye is like a classic! Who the frick wanted a movie about emoji like come on! Classics are way better then modern!

I can't believe that sony scrapped the most iconic cartoon character from emoj is. w hat is ne xt? m eme mov ie? p op culture movie? I want a movie based on classic franchines like NiGHTS, felix the cat, and pacman. I want a Pacman movie.

8 The character designs

The animation may be decent, but let's be honest here. All the characters are just emojis with limbs. That's it. Also, like Cartoonfan202 said, the Jailbreak emoji is basically a rip-off of Wyldstyle from The Lego Movie. From appearance all the way down to personality!

Why is the devil emoji RED?!? He is purple. It's like there trying to make him the next Satan.

For gene, it 's an animated emoji, with thin arms and legs, and a copy of Donald trumps hair.

I think that jailbreak is a ripoff Chloe Price from the - video game - Life is strange.

9 It's evidence Hollywood has run out of ideas.

The fortnite movie

A story about a default character who wants to get a victory royale and do the floss and orange justice at the same time.

And now they are making a fidget spinner movie.

10 The marketing will be atrocious

I bet they're going to release toys, apps, clothes, books, snacks, soundtracks, and just about everything you can think of for this lame movie.

Today I went to Walmart, and no lie, I saw The Emoji Movie graham crackers. How could you, Honey Maid?!?

I know. This movie is probably going to have to rely more on sponsors than the actual movie.

Marketing has mainly bugged and bored me at the same time. I am so not looking forward to Emomovie: Express Yo Ass!

The Contenders
11 Its formula rips off Wreck-It Ralph and Inside Out

Just immediately after the second trailer for The Emoji Movie was released, people all over the Internet were already saying that The Emoji Movie was ripping off Wreck-It Ralph and Inside Out. I wasn't surprised considering I already knew that The Emoji Movie was going to try to make an immersive world of emojis in a smartphone owned by a human character. The Emojis getting covered in cotton candy instantly reminded me of the Sugar Rush kart game from Wreck-It Ralph and the boy student getting caught playing with his smartphone in class also reminded me of Riley's first day at her new school. Come on, Sony. We've all seen this before. Don't be surprised if this ends up being a massive financial and/or critical failure.

They rip off Wreck it Ralph,Inside Out,and The Lego movie, which all are infinity tines better than this movie.A world in your phone rips off inside out.They all have rolls but there is a misfit.Rip off of Wreck it Ralph! They must all follow strict guidelines in the phone. Rip off of the lego movie!

Wreck-It Ralph, Inside Out, and The Lego Movie. These were the ingredients chosen to make the perfect little ripoff. But, professor dumbass purposely added a extra ingredient to the cacusson. EMOJIS. Thus, The Emoji Movie was born using it's horrible super powers, cringe, boredom, and 💩 has dedicated their lies for being cringey and very forgettable!

Bet disney made Ralph breaks the internet to show Sony not to rip off there shows.

12 This movie is just for money

Sony be like "We need money! We need money! "

13 It will waste great actors

Patrick Stewart for example. Why did he even sign up for this crap? And Sofia Vergara too?

So many reasonable actors sacrificed their careers for this pile of *#! %...

Sir Patrick Stewart playing a poo poo? TJ Miller as a round thing? Childhood ruined.

Christina Aguilera plays one of the characters.

14 Some annoying, pointless celebrity guests such as Ariana Grande, Nat Wolff, Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber or Drake could be in it

You always see these celebrity guests in cash grab movies.

They wasted their talents.

15 Because of the poop emoji, we will have millions of unfunny poop jokes

There's a poop joke in the trailer where the poop emoji and his son walk out of the bathroom saying "We are number 2! "

This ls worser then food fight. I can't wait until nostalgia critic will crush this movie

16 It's pandering to the current generation with emojis

2010 kids in the future will be saying You know you're a 2010s kid when...You watched/remember the Emoji movie. You know you're a 2010 kid when... You had Emoji movie toys.

Please put "It's sexist" on this list as well. This is why I am nowhere near a modernist.

Not everyone uses emojis!

17 It has Candy Crush product placement

And you thought the pointless grocery product placements in Foodfight! were bad. There's no telling how many face-palming product placements will be introduced in The Emoji Movie.

Wreck it Ralph 2 has Fortnite as product placement as seen in the tralier and throughout the movie.

Oh don't get me started with its awful gameshow adaption on CBS.

Yeah just advertising

18 Bad jokes

We will have millions of unfunny jokes to hear if I come to watch this movie.

Everything about Poop Emoji is a poop joke. How stupid is SONY?

We're number 2! We're number 2! Ugh, so dumb.

The jokes are so old and outdated

19 Sony Pictures Animation, the company that is responsible for the Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs duology, the overrated Hotel Transylvania franchise and the Open Season sequels is responsible for The Emoji Movie's existence

Also, I meant to put the live-action The Smurfs movies and Surf's Up 2: Wavemania in this sentence of the item. - The Ultimate Daredevil

God why sony you brought us things like spider-man yet you make the bad joke movie

I actually liked the first cloudy with a chance of meatballs though

Good for you, I will not beat you up for having different opinions from me. :) - The Ultimate Daredevil to ZootopiaFan

20 The trailer is bad

Trailer looks like a rip off of disneys planes. Uses the same song as the planes trailer

The trailer also has a ton of dislikes on YouTube. - Gehenna

21 Sony Pictures Animation isn't doing well nowadays

Saberspark's video on "What Ruined Sony Pictures Animation? " should pretty much best sum up the sour reputation of this company. I don't want to bandwagon and all, but I have to say that Saberspark is truly on point on Sony Pictures Animation as a company. They do have the resources to make good movies and they have actually made good movies before in the past (1 or 2, at least). Unfortunately, they don't seem to utilize their properties well in order to create what could have been Pixar-quality movies with critical AND financial success. I know ranting on The Emoji Movie is just pretty much beating a dead horse at this point (at least on here to an extent), so I'm only dedicating this comment to how bad Sony Pictures Animation is as an animation studio.

Exactly! What the hell will Sony think of next, the roblox movie?!?

They just make the movie for the money because nobody will buy their cameras lel

They didn't do well since the late 2000s.

22 Patrick Stewart is playing a turd
23 It is about emojis
24 They put it ahead of the smurfs movie.

I want to see smurfs the lost village. They cancelled smurfs 3 for this reboot. Emoji movie looks awkward.-trollsfan536

25 There is more dislikes than likes on the trailer on YouTube and Sony's YouTube page disabled comments and the like dislike button

I wouldn't be surprised if it earned a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes just right after its release.

Not that I'm defending the movie but...could you try elaborating on why that is?

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