Sony’s The Emoji Movie is having audiences question what is happening inside their phones. Similar to what Disney Pixar did with Inside Out, The Emoji Movie centers around Alex’s phone as an adolescent teenage boy just entering high school must now experience all knew firsts as his emoji’s in his phone try to anticipate his every click.
One of his emoji’s, Gene a.k.a, Meh also is experiencing firsts as he is given the opportunity of sitting in the square for the coveted opportunity of being scanned for the text messages, but Gene is too excited and can’t contain his enthusiasm to just one emoticon. When he finally gets chosen, he uses the wrong expression that starts his human Alex to question what is happening with his phone as the emoji’s scramble to keep him from erasing everything.
At just an hour and twenty-six minutes, the Emoji movie stars T.J. Miller as Gene along with James Corden as Hi-5, Anna Faris as Jailbreak, Maya Rudolph as Smiler and Patrick Stewart as Poop, as well as Jake T. Austin as Alex and Tati Gabrielle as Addie, Alex’s first crush. The movie features all the emoji’s that we have come to know and love as well as iconic apps from the inside out including Candy Crush, a dance app, and the notable social media apps including Facebook and Instagram.
All in all, the emoji movie is a good old clean family friendly movie, that has a few adult jokes, but nothing out of the ordinary and kids and adults will enjoy the funny humor and tech savvy nature as Gene journeys to be a normal non multifuntional emoji.
In addition, as an added interest, audiences get to see Count Dracula and Mavis with her son in a new animated short called, “Puppy”, that will have audiences laughing as they see the adventure of adding animals to the Hotel Transylvania family.
Opening weekend, the Sony Animation movie did fairly well, coming in number 2 at the box office with just over 25.6 million domestically. Though it still was not a match for Chris Nolan’s Dunkirk which topped the box office with 28 million. It’s currently playing in a theater near you.