The Emoji Movie

The Emoji Movie is an 3D computer-animated  based on emoji faces, smileys, and graphics used in electronic messages; produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. Directed by Tony Leondis, who wrote it with Eric Siegel and Mike White, the film stars the voices of T.J. Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris, Maya Rudolph, Steven Wright, Jennifer Coolidge, Christina Aguilera, Sofía Vergara, Sean Hayes, and Patrick Stewart. In the film, Gene, a multi-expressional emoji who lives in a teenager's smartphone, sets out on a journey to become a normal meh emoji like his parents.

The Emoji Movie premiered on, at the Regency Village Theatre and was theatrically released in the United States on. The film grossed $217 million worldwide but was universally lambasted from critics, who criticized the script, humor, product placement, voice performances, lack of originality, and unfavorably compared the plot to films such as The Lego Movie, Inside Out, and Wreck-It Ralph.

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