I'm glad you warned me not to watch this movie because I don't think I would have been able to emotionally handle hearing "bye Felisha." Seriously a jump scare
Fun fact, I went to see this movie in theaters as a joke with some friends, and in the middle of the pre-movie short film, the screen went black, because the ENTIRE CITY BLOCK lost power in a random power outage. To this day, I know God is on my side, and I've never tried to watch the whole movie since
"jailbreak's weave comes off and it's revealed that she's actually a white woman" with the crowd gasp sound effect holy shit, dude your sense of humor is amazing please never stop
Seriously like what are you even supposed to do? Hold the phone? If you are then how do you see it when you dance??? Like seriously it was so obviously just a plot device. But apparently there is an ACTUAL just dance app so idk.
It's funny that there's a "piracy" app and an emoji called Jailbreak, which implies the phone is jailbreaked, which means the phone is inelligible for being serviced by the manufacturer
People keep saying that. But when I wrote this joke the sound was trending on Tiktok (not where i know it from as I actually watch snapcube but its part of the reason I used it)
Me and my friends hung out in New York City one day and decided to see this movie together. When buying tickets, there was a summer camp group full of maybe 20+ children was going to the same showing. I was sure the theater would be a nightmare of children losing their mind to it. They were all completely silent the entire time. No laughs, no screaming, nothing.
I watched a recap of this movie while eating, what i hadn't realized was that i was eating expired canned tuna,i will forever equal the emoji "movie" with the taste of putrid canned tuna. Thanks for coming to my TED talk 890!
@@Boppercat i will now go age my milk so that i can drink the lumpy milk. Do wish me luck Update: the milk is aged, it looks disgusting and also smells disgusting. I will let you know how it goes If i do not update, tell my mother i loved her
I had a piracy app on my phone lol. caled vlc player or something like that with an orange traffic cone icon. it didn't fuck up my phone but the app worked like shit so I had to delete it edit: so people stop commenting. it wasnt vlc player, that must've been a false memory. *however* , I did have a pirating app. it wasn't files from my phone, I think it was streaming. it had pretty much every movie and show made in its library
I remember bringing my younger cousins to see this in theaters. They were probably around 6 and 9, so target demographic. Coming out of the theater the 6 year old said it was really boring and the 9 year old said it felt like they were trying to get her to download a bunch of apps. I wish I was joking, but that made it so much fun to shit on during the ride home.
@@yeet8627 I was around 9-10 when this came out and I didn’t see the appeal I didn’t think anything of it and never watched it nor was I planning on dragging my parents to the theaters I thought this shit was so odd I’m glad I wasn’t the only kid that’s legit reaction was “???” If kids hate a movie FOR KIDS that should be the writers wake up call that it’s dogshit and they should never write anything ever again
Just dance lady was unironically the best designed character in the movie. I don't want to get in to the emoji character designs because I don't want to have an existential crisis but the other humans are so bland looking.
Really speaking her and jailbreak are the only things in the movie that have actually character designs. The rest of the characters are just sony-fied emojis and the main character kid literally is just wearing a hoodie and jeans.
She was also the best character in the film alongside smiler (aka the villain). Of course she had to die in the phone trash bin while gene and jailbreak rescues hi-5!
yeah, cause they had already spent a max of 10 minutes writin the script for this movie and they didn't wanna spend anymore time writin something actually original for the email to say
Tbf, that is a lot more in line with what an awkward teen would think to say to a girl he liked. Still incredibly cringe, but more fitting than I would've given this movie credit for.
The main problem with films like The Emoji Movie is that they are filled with memes and gags that were only relevant and funny for when they were released. If you watch them years later, half of the jokes are just cringe.
If we're being entirely honest, it was already dated from its inception. From what I remember, every single RUclipsr and person with a brain back in 2017 was relentlessly shitting on this thing for simply being unfunny
I think any movie that heavily relies on meme or internet humour's already running the risk of being dated, esp when it's just "Wow look at this thing! Remember how funny it was four years ago?" Makes it more unwatchable with each passing year
I think unfortunately because movies go into production years before they are ever released it’s often that they are way out of date by the time the movie even hits the screen.
The thing is though is that I've seen shows & movies that use similar humour but in an actually funny way. Even if it comes across as dated, it's still funny because you can tell the writers understand the joke. The Emoji Movie is one big ad, it's story & characters are shallow, the art style is very plain, & it's made by people who don't understand memes &, most importantly, don't think children can recognize the difference between good & bad writing. They know it's badly written. They just don't care "because it's for children".
I feel like Emoji Movie was subconsciously a foreshadowing of the next decade, where everything about life sucks and is unpleasant much like everything in the movie. You watch it, and it feels like something that would have come out in the past 3 1/2 years. In a cosmic sort of way, it was ahead of it’s time.
watched this movie while incredibly high with one of my friends, it was definitely an experience. i convinced myself it was an allegory for autism and eugenics from like 5 minutes in
I was a teenager when this came out and the title “does it hold up” made me bust out laughing. It didn’t hold up the year it came out. We all mad fun of it. It was like our morbius
Fun fact, I was 14 when this movie came out and I saw it in theaters. I went ironically because I thought it would be bad in a funny way, like The Room. But no… it was just bad in the regular way. I think it still impacts me to this day because I have a massive aversion to using emojis when I text and I try to avoid them at all costs but idk…
I have a similar thing with not using emojis now! I like emoticons because real normal people came up with them, not nasty corporation marketing teams. Also, i only watched this movie because my brother forced me to, and we found it equally boring.
my friend and I did the exact same thing and I still barely use emojis and never any of the faces. every time i see someone use them I have like a jumpscare reaction
Actually the characters race could explain why high five isn’t used much as an emoji on Alex’s phone. Perhaps it’s because he uses the one that matches his skin tone instead, like most people do. I think it would be giving this movie too much credit to say they actually thought it through though.
I thought most people just used the neutral yellow one. I kinda cringe at the "five varieties of skin tones" in emojis (not that I use them at all anyway), given that races of the emojis were completely irrelevant initially.
@@Sasha-zw9ss At least in the platforms that I know, they actually added the yellow versions at the same time they released the race variations, they used to only be white
goddamn you for having a red guy pfp because it forced me to read your comment in his voice. on second thought, thank you for having red guy as your pfp.
Me and my little brother watched this movie in an empty theatre. No one was there but us two and one staff. He basically babysat us for the two hours. Thank you, random staff guy, who hung out with us and made the movie a little less unbearable
I was a 14 year old deeply immersed in meme culture when this came out, so as well as being a very tentative viewer of the jacksfilms emoji movie era, I was so excited to see it. towards the end, when the characters are doing "the emoji bop", I started crying actual tears. the emoji movie was the last movie I ever watched in a movie theater.
don't let it be the last forever April has a lot of movies coming out there's a Dracula type movie, Mario movie, Dungeons and Dragon movie and a few more
Fun Fact: if this was a real damn phone Just Dance wouldn't be dead she'd just be in limbo, bc when you delete an app it goes to something called "App Trash" where it stays for 24-72 hours where you can delete it for good or restore it with everything it had before it was deleted
I went to go see it as a joke and no one in the theater had ever made a single chuckle after watching the whole film. The only time they've ever laughed was that Hotel Transylvania short and that's it.
YES and lord does it give me a headache…like the kind you get right behind your eyes and it stings all day I see this movie and I automatically get physically ill 2017 was not it-
@@littlemeow124 I can’t wait to tell this to my kids if we make it to let’s say 2040 lol me and my brother collected so many damn fidget spinners it’s actually ridiculous I still find them in old toy bins and get war flashbacks we thought owning these made us cool and quirky my brother would BEG our mom to a fidget spinner every single time we went shopping now I feel bad looking back because it was the goofiest shit ever I remember adults and parents thinking it was ridiculous that kids where so addicted to these things and honestly I don’t blame them i don’t remember what the hype was or why I loved them so much lol Omg I wrote a paragraph essay nostalgia trip over thanks for reading :)
@@Isabel-sr8ep And I genuinely liked mine, but didn't use that much because it was made cringe. But that's only because I already need to have to do something with my hands pretty much all the time.
i mean.. i dont think the producers or writers or directors thought about how much humor and trends would change but yeah, it truly is a specimen of its time
I need to know if a person “trying to act normal in band class” means that they’re acting normal, or if they’re acting like a band kid who is only slightly less unhinged than the other band kids
Depends if you want a band kid, a ✨band✨kid, a self hating band kid, or some dude named Kevin who walked in one day. I hope it’s a Kevin or a self hating one, but it’s likely a ✨band✨ kid
@@nickchabot1302 I was once a Kevin, except for theatre. Used to sleep there while waiting to get picked up after school and one day their tech kid quit, them yelling woke me up and when they asked if I had a laptop/sound editing skills and lucky for them I was a RUclips gamer. Literally replaced the other tech kids month of work in 2 hours.
@@hikeilokei they really added a just dance APP into this movie The entire few years they spent on it was pointless the moment the directors discovered what phones were
So the background regarding Smiler being the first emoji is that in 1982, Carnegie Mellon professor Scott Fahlman invented the first emoticon which was a smiley. However, the first emojis ever created were in 1997 when J-Phone (SoftBank Group Corp) in Japan launched the SkyWalker DP-211SW, which contained a set of 90 emojis. This is where the smiling pile of poo emoji came from! And something I've noticed at 5:20 is that the flag emojis aren't in alphabetical order like they're supposed to be! One of the columns from top to bottom has the Australian, Polish, and Indian flags. The South Korean flag is above the Israeli flag, the Irish flag is above the Turkish flag, etc. Geography is truly, the number one enemy of the United States. "Aged poorly" implies that it had some redeeming quality. That there was some place to fall from where it started. Once you hit the very bottom of the Marianas Trench, there's nowhere else to go. Here's what the story should've been: A fantasy emoji land where, every time an emoji is used on a phone, they’re struck off the face of the earth. The emojis live in constant fear, and some communities are harder struck than others. The least popular emojis go on a quest to stop the evil that steals whole communities away, but then discover that the taken are being sent to a beautiful state of enlightenment where they understand all, and the least used emojis go on a quest to make the “gods” notice and use them more so they can also reach this nirvana.
7:18 Holy crap, I genuinely thought the disco ball was hanging himself 😭 That would've made this film so much more entertaining regardless of how inappropriate that'd be in a 2017 kids film, just SOMETHING to make this movie any bit more memorable
the emoji movie was for its time what an amongus movie would be like if it came out, like, tomorrow. targeted to kids who like popular things and forgetting that children actually have enough thinking skills to enjoy a decent narrative instead of treating them like idiots with no object permanence. like, kids are naive but they're not dumb??
Unironically, a Among Us movie could work if they took the basic setting and expanded upon it to be sort of like a horror movie. Something like the Thing. Of course, at that point, why call it a “Among Us” movie.
Among Us! Starring the celebrity voices of Chris Pratt, Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, Kyle Mooney, and Taylor Swift. It will end with a dance party, the animation will be very ugly cg, and the characters are inexplicably redesigned.
Ah yes, The Emoji Movie. A classic. A landmark in cinema. With iconic lines like "Now throw some sauce on that dance burrito." and "They're stickers Gene, try to get with the program." A movie like this is what brought Jesus back from the dead when it was announced. Fun fact: it is a legal requirement to watch this film at least 86 times or you are executed by TJ MEHller. I feel like since Gene’s parents are “meh” emoji’s, it’d make more sense for them to be rude and grumpy, but instead, they just seem really tired and look and sound like they’re about to sleep. Not to mention that anything that gets deleted don't just magically come back if you cancel mid-way through (unless the sectors haven't been completely overwritten, in which case the filesystem's journal or file allocation table can be rebuilt to find the bits of data that are "deleted"). That being said, the best emoji is obviously 🇰🇵 and it's no competition! Shame it wasn't featured in the movie.
I love how in the movie, it depicts emoticons as ancient relics, while in real life in the current year of 2023, most people use emoticons to express themselves and are usually at the ends of sentences. Not to say emojis are never used because they are, but emoticons and emojis are used simultaneously
When I saw high five upon starting this video, knowing nothing about the movie, I thought to myself "God he has such a James Corden face." Unfortunately I was right
I watch the new Star Trek: Picard, and every so often, I think to myself, “god. How much did they pay Patrick Stewart to voice act the literal poop emoji in The Emoji Movie?”
I’m so glad I was too old to be the target demographic for this movie when it came out and also no longer a summer camp counselor bc I would have had to take kids to watch this thing fifty times like I did with Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Thank you! I appreciate the comment and I love your pfp also! Btw this was the last video I did without a mic. So all my other commentaries are made at much higher quality 😭. I also edited this whole video on my old ass laptop too.
Bro, you are so entertaining, I loved everyone second of this! I didn’t go five seconds without chuckling or just laughing my ass off. I love your video, man. Keep it up!
1. I wanna rescue the Just Dance lady from this film, she's cute and she deserves better. I say this both as a woman and as a bisexual. 2. I'm really fascinated by the like, specific, weird subgenre of manic pixie dream girl that I would classify characters like JailBreak as (and the evil female smurf with the blue hair from the smurf movie I never saw). They want these characters to be WyldStyle/Lucy from Lego Movie SO BAD, but Lucy actually works as a character. JailBreak seems fine, and maybe I'd feel differently if I watched the actual movie (lmao), but from what I can tell, they don't do a good job of establishing who she is. Why's she disguised as just a hacker? ("of COURSE you have blue hair and pronouns") Is she seeking freedom from societal expectations? Does she dislike the role laid out for her? Does she dislike herself? WyldStyle continuously reinvents herself because she wants to be interesting and important. She wants to be cool because she's insecure. It makes sense, it's well-established, it fits with the overall message of the movie, the other characters repeatedly call attention to how absurd she's being, and when she opens up to Emmett she does so because their interactions have made her comfortable with that "boring" version of herself. She works because she exists within a competent narrative AND the Lego Movie is extremely self-aware. It knows it's advanced version of product placement, but it also knows that it is simultaneously a concise, genuine story at its core. The Emoji Movie might be self-referential, but I don't think that's the same thing as being self-aware. It gives off the very clear vibe that everyone involved in its production was too concerned with the potential profit to pay any attention to the quality of the piece. Might be why there's so much onscreen literal crap. Also, gonna keep comparing it to the Lego Movie here, it's clear they didn't spend more than 15 minutes considering their world-building, as this analysis makes apparent. The world(s) of the Lego Movie made sense, had clear rules and parameters, and even when the movie takes you outside of the established world into the real world containing the legos, it does it in a way that doesn't leave you confused by what's happening. As you pointed out, this movie can't even come up with a legitimate reason for why it would take long enough to travel between apps to warrant a so-called shortcut. Anyway thank you for your service, I'll never watch this movie but I will watch more of your videos xoxo
I remember one Christmas where a little niece of my bf came up to me while I was drawing something. She is very quirky and adorable and she reminds me of myself in a ways. She says she loves my art, and my goth funky clothes and says she wishes she could draw like me/wear the kind of things she wants to at school without being teased, especially for the movies she likes. My heart melts and I say "aw hun, you shouldn't listen to bullies, you should enjoy ANYTHING that makes you smile!-" "I LIKE THE EMOJI MOVIE!" "...well.... "THE EMOJI MOVIE IS **MY FAVORITE** MOVIE, I THINK ITS THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE! DO YOU LIKE IT TOO?" "-I gotta go."
The snapcube reference is fucking great. I just love the delivery of "The devil. from. the bible." That was my favorite gag in that video, and is my favorite gag here too.
I love that Jailbreak's character arc is the same as Vanellope from wreck it ralph, she's a glitch/hacker that can't get through the firewall/can't get out of the game, but she's secretly a princess and her powers help save the device
What’s dumb is that Gene falls for Jailbreak, talking about all the adventures they’ve had together. And how heartbroken he was when she rejected him. Dude you just met this girl! You only knew them for a day!
Thank you for saving me from ever hearing the dialogue of this movie again, i would've went absolutely insane if i heard "bye Felicia" or had to witness the "emoji pop" again😭
I should correct here that to my knowledge, in 2017, this movie came out directly AFTER the emoji craze. Like 2016 was the craze, they had just missed it and when it came out it was already out of date to begin with.
Maybe not even 2016. I remember starting to see emoji-themed stuff everywhere from like 2014?? I even remember having a pair of emoji-patterned leggings 😭 I was 12
I remember seeing this in the theater and laughing way too loud at the fact that the only other person watching the movie walked out and I got embarrassed thinking the people in the projector room could have heard me laughing and think I was laughing at the movie but I wasn't.
i love this video but 16:04 hurts me on a spiritual level because he sent her the lyrics of Diamonds by Rihanna and you where like "what 14 year old uses ecstasy"
So, despite the whole premise being "kids just use emojis instead of communicating," this kid made a phone call to get his whole phone erased after two minor inconveniences?
Also, why didn't we get an explanation as to why literally ALL of the kid's friends (INCLUDING HIS CRUSH WHO'S SUPPOSED TO BE AT THE DANCE??) are at the phone store ?
As a kid I heard people talk about it and wanted to watch it but my parents are strict on what we watch so I watched it in secret and ooooh boy wish I could have those 90 minutes of my life back
I'm glad you warned me not to watch this movie because I don't think I would have been able to emotionally handle hearing "bye Felisha." Seriously a jump scare
even worse, it's *James Cordon saying bye Felisha*
you wouldn't have been able to emotionally HANDle hehe
bye Felisha
The only movie that phrase isn’t cringe in is straight outta Compton
I watched the movie when I was 7 and it was not really that cringey for me. I watched it again and I did not cringe.
Fun fact, I went to see this movie in theaters as a joke with some friends, and in the middle of the pre-movie short film, the screen went black, because the ENTIRE CITY BLOCK lost power in a random power outage. To this day, I know God is on my side, and I've never tried to watch the whole movie since
Now THATS divine intervention
@@hikeilokei oh yeah, we all left with hands outstretched lol
I love the idea of this movie being so awful that god himself smites the cinema and cuts the power out lmao
Just remember- ironic ticket sales are still ticket sales. And that's all the execs care to see.
@@PTp1ranha And Sony actually wanted to capitalize on that with good ol' Morbin'
Sony is very lucky to have made Into The Spiderverse and Mitchells vs The Machines after this
Seriously Sony really turned their animation department around after this movie.
@@hikeilokei They did. They really did…
That’s because they had Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
They had to get all the bullshit out before they could get to the good stuff.
They released this movie and thought "what the fuck have we done" It served as a wakeup call. So maybe the emoji movie served a purpose after all💀
"jailbreak's weave comes off and it's revealed that she's actually a white woman" with the crowd gasp sound effect holy shit, dude your sense of humor is amazing please never stop
haha thank you :)
Lmao that killed me, as a white woman jumpscare myself i love to see a good white woman jumpscare irl
@@birdie8006 White Women 😱😱😱
this movie is their canon event
The bisexual representation we didnt want but didnt need 👏🏻👏🏻
Your username is awfully ironic
who's the bisexual you're talking about?
The reason the eggplant emoji is in the not used area is because young Andrew rate has no bitches send it too
Real
lmao
He has homies tho
@@impossiblehanley2732 Wait a minute....
@@impossiblehanley2732 Well, pretty much everyone in this movie is gay in some way
This video just made me realize how a just dance app is infinitely flawed on a conceptual level
Seriously like what are you even supposed to do? Hold the phone? If you are then how do you see it when you dance??? Like seriously it was so obviously just a plot device. But apparently there is an ACTUAL just dance app so idk.
With the actual one you need to have a second device like a laptop or something to show the visuals
@@hikeilokei The app is like a controller for the game itself but its really difficult to use. I couldnt figure it out when I tried to set it up
Still sounds shit, but maybe set the phone up and use the front camera like a Kinect? I know, that's a very low bar.
It's honestly not that bad. You use your phone as the controller and then another device to see the dance moves
this movie is just a worse version of inside out
That's so funny I never thought of that
Mixed with the Lego movie, even down to the knockoff Wild Style
That’s an insult to Inside Out
worse version of the lego movie too
And Wreck it Ralph
It's funny that there's a "piracy" app and an emoji called Jailbreak, which implies the phone is jailbreaked, which means the phone is inelligible for being serviced by the manufacturer
He probably took it to a third-party repair service
"The devil from... the Bible" holy shit I was not expecting a Snapcube reference
People keep saying that. But when I wrote this joke the sound was trending on Tiktok (not where i know it from as I actually watch snapcube but its part of the reason I used it)
@@hikeilokei you ever read a bible? i'm from that i'm that devil
Me and my friends hung out in New York City one day and decided to see this movie together. When buying tickets, there was a summer camp group full of maybe 20+ children was going to the same showing. I was sure the theater would be a nightmare of children losing their mind to it.
They were all completely silent the entire time. No laughs, no screaming, nothing.
Como se alimentan los vegetales?¿Y los animales?En los dos casos indica que orgánicos celulares sirven( no más de 20 palabras)
@@orlandodanielgonzalezalcar3360vegetales: nutrientes del suelo.
Animales: compuestos orgánicos.
@@eustaquiokum4617 The ayuda para la tarea is real
Oh my god...! xD It's really that bad, huh? That's fucking amazing.
I heard someone say that they were the *ONLY* people in the theater when they saw it.
I watched a recap of this movie while eating, what i hadn't realized was that i was eating expired canned tuna,i will forever equal the emoji "movie" with the taste of putrid canned tuna.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk
890!
That sounds fitting tbh
the movie is what expired the tuna
Have you ever had lumpy milk? If you have that’s the emoji movie in drink form. If you have not had lumpy milk it’s best to keep it that way.
@@Boppercat i will now go age my milk so that i can drink the lumpy milk. Do wish me luck
Update: the milk is aged, it looks disgusting and also smells disgusting. I will let you know how it goes
If i do not update, tell my mother i loved her
If you eat the spoiled tuna anyways, it'll give you superpowers. Trust me
Are we shocked that a phone with "the piracy app" installed on it is glitching out and that the kid wants to get it factory reset?
LMAO that's actually hilarious. Wish I wrote that as joke in the video because that is genuinely so funny. This made me audibly laugh.
Imagine if actual piracy were that dangerous or easy to mess up, this just sounds like corporate propaganda to me
I had a piracy app on my phone lol. caled vlc player or something like that with an orange traffic cone icon. it didn't fuck up my phone but the app worked like shit so I had to delete it
edit: so people stop commenting. it wasnt vlc player, that must've been a false memory. *however* , I did have a pirating app. it wasn't files from my phone, I think it was streaming. it had pretty much every movie and show made in its library
@@ErieRosewood my man, that app literally just plays MP4s, wdym piracy app-
@@justseffstuff3308 that's how good the disguise is, you were fooled
I remember bringing my younger cousins to see this in theaters. They were probably around 6 and 9, so target demographic. Coming out of the theater the 6 year old said it was really boring and the 9 year old said it felt like they were trying to get her to download a bunch of apps. I wish I was joking, but that made it so much fun to shit on during the ride home.
Smart children. I like that. Show them some Centurions or Jonny Quest sometime. Trust me.
you know it’s bad when not even the kids like it lol
@@yeet8627 I was around 9-10 when this came out and I didn’t see the appeal I didn’t think anything of it and never watched it nor was I planning on dragging my parents to the theaters I thought this shit was so odd I’m glad I wasn’t the only kid that’s legit reaction was “???”
If kids hate a movie FOR KIDS that should be the writers wake up call that it’s dogshit and they should never write anything ever again
@@Isabel-sr8ep 21
when i was 7 i thought i was cool so i made fun of it
Imagine being the nauseous emoji and your whole purpose in life is to throw up whenever some 14 year old kid decides you should
Just dance lady was unironically the best designed character in the movie. I don't want to get in to the emoji character designs because I don't want to have an existential crisis but the other humans are so bland looking.
Really speaking her and jailbreak are the only things in the movie that have actually character designs. The rest of the characters are just sony-fied emojis and the main character kid literally is just wearing a hoodie and jeans.
Memento Mori
She was also the best character in the film alongside smiler (aka the villain). Of course she had to die in the phone trash bin while gene and jailbreak rescues hi-5!
All she wanted to do is dance and she got fucking obliterated, it’s so unfair
I actually think the evil robots looked rather cool
Notice how the email was just lyrics from Diamonds by Rihanna
OH MY GOD I NEVER NOTICED THIS 😭
Ngl that was very corny 😭
@@hikeilokei i was like ???? because i INSTANTLY recognised it
yeah, cause they had already spent a max of 10 minutes writin the script for this movie and they didn't wanna spend anymore time writin something actually original for the email to say
Tbf, that is a lot more in line with what an awkward teen would think to say to a girl he liked. Still incredibly cringe, but more fitting than I would've given this movie credit for.
The main problem with films like The Emoji Movie is that they are filled with memes and gags that were only relevant and funny for when they were released. If you watch them years later, half of the jokes are just cringe.
If we're being entirely honest, it was already dated from its inception. From what I remember, every single RUclipsr and person with a brain back in 2017 was relentlessly shitting on this thing for simply being unfunny
Every joke in the movie was irrelevant before it even released
I think any movie that heavily relies on meme or internet humour's already running the risk of being dated, esp when it's just "Wow look at this thing! Remember how funny it was four years ago?" Makes it more unwatchable with each passing year
I think unfortunately because movies go into production years before they are ever released it’s often that they are way out of date by the time the movie even hits the screen.
The thing is though is that I've seen shows & movies that use similar humour but in an actually funny way. Even if it comes across as dated, it's still funny because you can tell the writers understand the joke. The Emoji Movie is one big ad, it's story & characters are shallow, the art style is very plain, & it's made by people who don't understand memes &, most importantly, don't think children can recognize the difference between good & bad writing. They know it's badly written. They just don't care "because it's for children".
You saying "Emoji Movie 2017" implies there will someday be a remake. Please no.
I’ll make it myself if I have to
@@hikeilokei spare us, please
I feel like Emoji Movie was subconsciously a foreshadowing of the next decade, where everything about life sucks and is unpleasant much like everything in the movie. You watch it, and it feels like something that would have come out in the past 3 1/2 years.
In a cosmic sort of way, it was ahead of it’s time.
@@hikeilokei make it better
@@hobomike6935you just really need to go to therapy, the depression is real
I literally watched this movie in the mental hospital. The only place this movie belongs
i feel like that would make everyone in there a little bit worse
imagine if your credit card declines after your stay at the mental hospital so they just show you the emoji movie to undo weeks of rehabilitation
Isn't the whole point of mental hospitals to PREVENT suicidal feelings? Because they clearly made a massive oversight.
watched this movie while incredibly high with one of my friends, it was definitely an experience. i convinced myself it was an allegory for autism and eugenics from like 5 minutes in
Most movies are if you think about it too hard
EUGENICS LMAOOOO
as an autistic person so true
@@juice3287as also an autistic person wtf 😭😭😭😭
Now THAT'S a experience if there ever was one
I was a teenager when this came out and the title “does it hold up” made me bust out laughing. It didn’t hold up the year it came out. We all mad fun of it. It was like our morbius
@@jaxsterminator8634 What are you smoking?
@@jaxsterminator8634 Ok maybe you’re on something
@@jaxsterminator8634 Your opinion is wrong
@@jaxsterminator8634 Nope
@@jaxsterminator8634 It’s a trash movie
Fun fact, I was 14 when this movie came out and I saw it in theaters. I went ironically because I thought it would be bad in a funny way, like The Room. But no… it was just bad in the regular way. I think it still impacts me to this day because I have a massive aversion to using emojis when I text and I try to avoid them at all costs but idk…
I have a similar thing with not using emojis now! I like emoticons because real normal people came up with them, not nasty corporation marketing teams.
Also, i only watched this movie because my brother forced me to, and we found it equally boring.
my friend and I did the exact same thing and I still barely use emojis and never any of the faces. every time i see someone use them I have like a jumpscare reaction
@@cosmicdust2668 same. Seeing Emojis make me die inside.
yeahhhhh emojis give me war flashbacks to when they were fucking EVERYWHERE
The only thing I liked about the movie was the animation.
Actually the characters race could explain why high five isn’t used much as an emoji on Alex’s phone. Perhaps it’s because he uses the one that matches his skin tone instead, like most people do. I think it would be giving this movie too much credit to say they actually thought it through though.
I thought most people just used the neutral yellow one. I kinda cringe at the "five varieties of skin tones" in emojis (not that I use them at all anyway), given that races of the emojis were completely irrelevant initially.
Or that he's just lazy and uses the yellow one.
unfortunately i think at the beginning they do mention that alex used to use high five a lot and but stopped for some reason
@@Sasha-zw9ss At least in the platforms that I know, they actually added the yellow versions at the same time they released the race variations, they used to only be white
"Emoji 9/11" is the craziest term ever
The truth is happiness is the bisexuality we find along the way
That sounds profound but I’m not sure it actually is
I'd rather watch 16 year old me cry over another girl while listening to Tegan and Sara.
Fair enough
goddamn you for having a red guy pfp because it forced me to read your comment in his voice. on second thought, thank you for having red guy as your pfp.
I put New 4'gs on my jeep
Insane that that spider-verse was just a year later and that had a huge impact on the animation industry.
@@jaxsterminator8634 wrong
@@jaxsterminator8634 Say sike RN
@@jaxsterminator8634 I love when people fall for such an obvious troll 💀
By the same studio to
@@thegreatscribbles960 that's why I said it?
"There's gotta be a way we can canonically prove that an Emoji 9/11 happened" earned my like
✈ 🌇
@@okjeffy6581 💥🔥
@@-.bella.- 🚧🏃💨🔥🧑🚒
Gotta ask Matpat, maybe he'll prove the emoji assasination of Franz Ferdinand too lol
@@keyboardsmash_01 🇦🇹👫 🔫😡🇧🇦
Me and my little brother watched this movie in an empty theatre. No one was there but us two and one staff. He basically babysat us for the two hours.
Thank you, random staff guy, who hung out with us and made the movie a little less unbearable
If it was IRL, then the girl would've most likely been very uncomfortable when he sent her that emoji
I was a 14 year old deeply immersed in meme culture when this came out, so as well as being a very tentative viewer of the jacksfilms emoji movie era, I was so excited to see it. towards the end, when the characters are doing "the emoji bop", I started crying actual tears. the emoji movie was the last movie I ever watched in a movie theater.
don't let it be the last forever April has a lot of movies coming out there's a Dracula type movie, Mario movie, Dungeons and Dragon movie and a few more
I was 14 when this movie came out as well!
John wick 4 is out you should watch that for sure
The last sentence reads like a tragedy
@@AuroraBorealis170it is
Fun Fact: if this was a real damn phone Just Dance wouldn't be dead she'd just be in limbo, bc when you delete an app it goes to something called "App Trash" where it stays for 24-72 hours where you can delete it for good or restore it with everything it had before it was deleted
What phone do you use? I don't have anything like App Trash on my samsung
how are you going to give us this information, but no information on how to get to app trash? let me explore app purgatory.
idk man i got app trash on my LG phone
Shhhhh a movie about sentient emojis doesn’t use logic just go with it
@@Regigigas_YT LG thinQ
IT WAS ALREAFY BADLY AGED WHEN IT CAME OUT. HOW DID IT GET WORSE
Time does not in fact, heal all wounds. Sometimes, it makes them significantly worse...
@@hikeilokei Like infection
@@capncookie1110 or an Achilles tendon rupture.
@@dar3mor6 or like a rotting old lady
6:19 THE 2017 DEVIANT ART JUMPSCARE I GENUINELY SCREAMED
I went to go see it as a joke and no one in the theater had ever made a single chuckle after watching the whole film. The only time they've ever laughed was that Hotel Transylvania short and that's it.
The movie IS the joke
the emoji movie REEKS of 2017 in the worst way possible
Back in 2017 we were playing with fidget spinners and worrying that trump might start a nuclear war against north korea
The whole premise of the movie stopped being anywhere close to a good idea in 2014
YES and lord does it give me a headache…like the kind you get right behind your eyes and it stings all day I see this movie and I automatically get physically ill 2017 was not it-
@@littlemeow124 I can’t wait to tell this to my kids if we make it to let’s say 2040 lol me and my brother collected so many damn fidget spinners it’s actually ridiculous I still find them in old toy bins and get war flashbacks we thought owning these made us cool and quirky my brother would BEG our mom to a fidget spinner every single time we went shopping now I feel bad looking back because it was the goofiest shit ever I remember adults and parents thinking it was ridiculous that kids where so addicted to these things and honestly I don’t blame them i don’t remember what the hype was or why I loved them so much lol
Omg I wrote a paragraph essay nostalgia trip over thanks for reading :)
@@Isabel-sr8ep And I genuinely liked mine, but didn't use that much because it was made cringe. But that's only because I already need to have to do something with my hands pretty much all the time.
i mean.. i dont think the producers or writers or directors thought about how much humor and trends would change but yeah, it truly is a specimen of its time
I want this movie to be the only thing we leave in a time capsule for aliens.
they would honestly wish they never came to earth
The reki pfp😭💀
🫥
@@hachiiiiko707They’d probably want humans dead
I need to know if a person “trying to act normal in band class” means that they’re acting normal, or if they’re acting like a band kid who is only slightly less unhinged than the other band kids
Unhinged
Depends if you want a band kid, a ✨band✨kid, a self hating band kid, or some dude named Kevin who walked in one day. I hope it’s a Kevin or a self hating one, but it’s likely a ✨band✨ kid
@@nickchabot1302 Kevin is the undercover immortal cameraman in the grand scheme of things
@@nickchabot1302 I was once a Kevin, except for theatre.
Used to sleep there while waiting to get picked up after school and one day their tech kid quit, them yelling woke me up and when they asked if I had a laptop/sound editing skills and lucky for them I was a RUclips gamer.
Literally replaced the other tech kids month of work in 2 hours.
This entire plot of the movie could've been avoided without the main character, and alex would've gotten the girl either way💀
pointless movie
@@hikeilokei they really added a just dance APP into this movie
The entire few years they spent on it was pointless the moment the directors discovered what phones were
So the background regarding Smiler being the first emoji is that in 1982, Carnegie Mellon professor Scott Fahlman invented the first emoticon which was a smiley. However, the first emojis ever created were in 1997 when J-Phone (SoftBank Group Corp) in Japan launched the SkyWalker DP-211SW, which contained a set of 90 emojis. This is where the smiling pile of poo emoji came from! And something I've noticed at 5:20 is that the flag emojis aren't in alphabetical order like they're supposed to be! One of the columns from top to bottom has the Australian, Polish, and Indian flags. The South Korean flag is above the Israeli flag, the Irish flag is above the Turkish flag, etc. Geography is truly, the number one enemy of the United States.
"Aged poorly" implies that it had some redeeming quality. That there was some place to fall from where it started. Once you hit the very bottom of the Marianas Trench, there's nowhere else to go. Here's what the story should've been: A fantasy emoji land where, every time an emoji is used on a phone, they’re struck off the face of the earth. The emojis live in constant fear, and some communities are harder struck than others. The least popular emojis go on a quest to stop the evil that steals whole communities away, but then discover that the taken are being sent to a beautiful state of enlightenment where they understand all, and the least used emojis go on a quest to make the “gods” notice and use them more so they can also reach this nirvana.
7:18 Holy crap, I genuinely thought the disco ball was hanging himself 😭 That would've made this film so much more entertaining regardless of how inappropriate that'd be in a 2017 kids film, just SOMETHING to make this movie any bit more memorable
I CACKLED at this comment
that is hilarious 😭😭
Fr 😂
i wish
LMAOOOO
the emoji movie was for its time what an amongus movie would be like if it came out, like, tomorrow. targeted to kids who like popular things and forgetting that children actually have enough thinking skills to enjoy a decent narrative instead of treating them like idiots with no object permanence. like, kids are naive but they're not dumb??
An Among Us movie makes much more sense than an Emoji movie though 😂
@@cynicalperson161 right! it would have an actual plot
Unironically, a Among Us movie could work if they took the basic setting and expanded upon it to be sort of like a horror movie. Something like the Thing. Of course, at that point, why call it a “Among Us” movie.
Among Us! Starring the celebrity voices of Chris Pratt, Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, Kyle Mooney, and Taylor Swift.
It will end with a dance party, the animation will be very ugly cg, and the characters are inexplicably redesigned.
@@GameyRaccoon in retrospect, maybe a film based on the concept is a terrible idea
Don't you love it when your dad tries to save you from execution by revealing he is, in fact, also a bisexual
this is the first video of yours that i've watched. you are very, very funny. 10/10
Ah yes, The Emoji Movie. A classic. A landmark in cinema. With iconic lines like "Now throw some sauce on that dance burrito." and "They're stickers Gene, try to get with the program." A movie like this is what brought Jesus back from the dead when it was announced. Fun fact: it is a legal requirement to watch this film at least 86 times or you are executed by TJ MEHller.
I feel like since Gene’s parents are “meh” emoji’s, it’d make more sense for them to be rude and grumpy, but instead, they just seem really tired and look and sound like they’re about to sleep. Not to mention that anything that gets deleted don't just magically come back if you cancel mid-way through (unless the sectors haven't been completely overwritten, in which case the filesystem's journal or file allocation table can be rebuilt to find the bits of data that are "deleted"). That being said, the best emoji is obviously 🇰🇵 and it's no competition! Shame it wasn't featured in the movie.
"like a steven universe fan trying to act normal in band class" BROOO NAHH IM IN BAND AND A STEVEN UNIVERSE FAN U DID NOT HAVE TO DO ME LIKE THAT 💀💀☠
had to do it to em
I love how the writers went out of their way to give the meh emoji an actual name, and people still forgot it. Pretty sad tbh
Guess you could say it was pretty "meh"
The main character is nothing special, you could almost say he's kinda meh
Take my like
@@hikeilokei he took your heart instead
@@ReignyRain rest in piece hikeilokei
@@ReignyRain bro just killed him
im not mad, im just dissapointed
If the Emoji Movie isn’t entirely forgotten, historians in the 2070s will use it as an example of how low our society got during the 2010s.
Facts.
But. . . Transformers Prime came out then and slapped so hard even though no one asked it to-
I love how in the movie, it depicts emoticons as ancient relics, while in real life in the current year of 2023, most people use emoticons to express themselves and are usually at the ends of sentences. Not to say emojis are never used because they are, but emoticons and emojis are used simultaneously
“Harder than I question my gender” Hits different when it’s TRUE
When I saw high five upon starting this video, knowing nothing about the movie, I thought to myself "God he has such a James Corden face." Unfortunately I was right
I literally died when you said “and her weave comes off and it’s revealed that she’s a white woman”
rest in peace
when you said “and everybody did the emoji pop” then *had a mental breakdown* was the best part imo 💀
the fact that a kids movie about emojis unintentionally has better gay representation than most modern media is insane
What
"No, he is got a point"
The movie came out on my 10th birthday. What a way to celebrate a decade alive
Sony knew what you needed
This movie came out when I was 21.
@@okjeffy6581 what
This came out on my 13th birthday! Happy birthday twin T-T.
Same
I watch the new Star Trek: Picard, and every so often, I think to myself, “god. How much did they pay Patrick Stewart to voice act the literal poop emoji in The Emoji Movie?”
Yeah, especially because the budget wasn't that high.
He probably did it as a joke honestly 😂 and an expensive one I assume
GAY BALLS????!?!?!
YES
To say this film aged poorly is to imply it wasn't already rotten on release.
God, I remember that 11-year-old me memorized half the lines in this film. Truly a 🤓 moment.
I was feeling kinda sad so thanks for the fun commentary and persona music
Of course :)
Hope you’re feeling better :))
Persona music? This is gonna be good...
I’m so glad I was too old to be the target demographic for this movie when it came out and also no longer a summer camp counselor bc I would have had to take kids to watch this thing fifty times like I did with Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Sorry I'm laughing at this
Ok but Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was actually good
@@mariliafreitas7424 at least it had effort unlike the crap of today
I’m currently on a channel binge and I must say your content is so well made. Can’t wait to keep watching 💗
Thank you! I appreciate the comment and I love your pfp also! Btw this was the last video I did without a mic. So all my other commentaries are made at much higher quality 😭. I also edited this whole video on my old ass laptop too.
@@hikeilokeiAnd it still came out this good...? You definitely earned yourself another subscriber!!!!!!
The 50 million budget might not account for marketing so it’s more like 100 million
Every time I get a reminder that this trainwreck of a "film" exists, I die a little inside
Bro I was a mentally disabled teen in 2017 and even I hated it.
I think making someone watch this movie should be considered a war crime
What if you willingly watch it?
@@theofficialliedetector1545 worse than suicide
still a war crime
@Vierka Chora we truly do in fact live in a society
New torture method just dropped
Fourteen year old with a severe learning disability here: the emoji movie was bad when it was released and worse now.
As a fellow teenager who is also disabled, it sucks.
I love clicking random video essays and hearing delightful persona music in the background.
It’s so annoying 😭
Bro, you are so entertaining, I loved everyone second of this! I didn’t go five seconds without chuckling or just laughing my ass off. I love your video, man. Keep it up!
Thank you :)
Well, a good morning to you, too! I’m sorry you had to watch and edit this movie, but I’m thoroughly entertained
Glad my sacrifice was worth it 🫡
1. I wanna rescue the Just Dance lady from this film, she's cute and she deserves better. I say this both as a woman and as a bisexual.
2. I'm really fascinated by the like, specific, weird subgenre of manic pixie dream girl that I would classify characters like JailBreak as (and the evil female smurf with the blue hair from the smurf movie I never saw). They want these characters to be WyldStyle/Lucy from Lego Movie SO BAD, but Lucy actually works as a character. JailBreak seems fine, and maybe I'd feel differently if I watched the actual movie (lmao), but from what I can tell, they don't do a good job of establishing who she is. Why's she disguised as just a hacker? ("of COURSE you have blue hair and pronouns") Is she seeking freedom from societal expectations? Does she dislike the role laid out for her? Does she dislike herself? WyldStyle continuously reinvents herself because she wants to be interesting and important. She wants to be cool because she's insecure. It makes sense, it's well-established, it fits with the overall message of the movie, the other characters repeatedly call attention to how absurd she's being, and when she opens up to Emmett she does so because their interactions have made her comfortable with that "boring" version of herself. She works because she exists within a competent narrative AND the Lego Movie is extremely self-aware. It knows it's advanced version of product placement, but it also knows that it is simultaneously a concise, genuine story at its core. The Emoji Movie might be self-referential, but I don't think that's the same thing as being self-aware. It gives off the very clear vibe that everyone involved in its production was too concerned with the potential profit to pay any attention to the quality of the piece. Might be why there's so much onscreen literal crap.
Also, gonna keep comparing it to the Lego Movie here, it's clear they didn't spend more than 15 minutes considering their world-building, as this analysis makes apparent. The world(s) of the Lego Movie made sense, had clear rules and parameters, and even when the movie takes you outside of the established world into the real world containing the legos, it does it in a way that doesn't leave you confused by what's happening. As you pointed out, this movie can't even come up with a legitimate reason for why it would take long enough to travel between apps to warrant a so-called shortcut.
Anyway thank you for your service, I'll never watch this movie but I will watch more of your videos xoxo
EXACTLY like Jailbreak is such a WyldStyle knock off
😂😂😂😂
I remember one Christmas where a little niece of my bf came up to me while I was drawing something. She is very quirky and adorable and she reminds me of myself in a ways. She says she loves my art, and my goth funky clothes and says she wishes she could draw like me/wear the kind of things she wants to at school without being teased, especially for the movies she likes. My heart melts and I say "aw hun, you shouldn't listen to bullies, you should enjoy ANYTHING that makes you smile!-"
"I LIKE THE EMOJI MOVIE!"
"...well....
"THE EMOJI MOVIE IS **MY FAVORITE** MOVIE, I THINK ITS THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE! DO YOU LIKE IT TOO?"
"-I gotta go."
*Legalize nuclear bombs*
SWAG MESSAIAH
"And she says he's a "malfunction" which sounds like a slur"
The snapcube reference is fucking great. I just love the delivery of "The devil. from. the bible." That was my favorite gag in that video, and is my favorite gag here too.
I love that Jailbreak's character arc is the same as Vanellope from wreck it ralph, she's a glitch/hacker that can't get through the firewall/can't get out of the game, but she's secretly a princess and her powers help save the device
except i actually cared and was rooting for vanellope
she also gave me wildstyle vibes
Yes!!!!
@@gloomiiii absolutely, I ended up missing writing the part of my comment where I was going to say they *stole* vanellope's arc, lol
"The Devil. from: The Bible" hey REFERENCE
(just feeding the algorithm gods, cheers!)
Thank you tinymeows
HEYYY SHADOW ITSSS MEEEE, THE DEVIL
@@c4tfsh8"I LOVE YOUUUUUU"
@@mrtruman4339 “I’M HAVING SO MUCH FUN WITH YOUUU”
😅🔫🗿
What’s dumb is that Gene falls for Jailbreak, talking about all the adventures they’ve had together. And how heartbroken he was when she rejected him. Dude you just met this girl! You only knew them for a day!
Typical Disney syndrome
Let’s not forget that Jailbreak hinted at being interested in Gene too.
Thank you for saving me from ever hearing the dialogue of this movie again, i would've went absolutely insane if i heard "bye Felicia" or had to witness the "emoji pop" again😭
dude that scream at 18:30. that is GENUINE. RAW. EMOTION. gyat dayum.
"I don't know. I can imagine quite a bit." -Han Solo
that disability joke was kinda ableist ngl
@Skarbie Well literally
Yeah that was a huge turn off from this video.. it’s giving 2016 commentary community
@Skarbie Well the pinned comment saying "I'm glad you warned me not to watch this movie"?
I should correct here that to my knowledge, in 2017, this movie came out directly AFTER the emoji craze. Like 2016 was the craze, they had just missed it and when it came out it was already out of date to begin with.
Maybe not even 2016. I remember starting to see emoji-themed stuff everywhere from like 2014?? I even remember having a pair of emoji-patterned leggings 😭 I was 12
duude i have an emoji blanket still hahah
should've been 2014 as it was emoji craze
I have a feeling that if Sony hadn't made this movie, Disney and Pixar would've. They literally go "what if --- had feelings?"
This is one of the funniest movie reviews I’ve seen, keep up the good work!
"She doesn't really like people touching her" just like me fr 😔😔😔😔😔😔
@Cio Lake It's a joke
@Cio Lake Your intentions are noble but the comment is a joke
I remember seeing this in the theater and laughing way too loud at the fact that the only other person watching the movie walked out and I got embarrassed thinking the people in the projector room could have heard me laughing and think I was laughing at the movie but I wasn't.
i love this video but 16:04 hurts me on a spiritual level because he sent her the lyrics of Diamonds by Rihanna and you where like "what 14 year old uses ecstasy"
this fr
Tbh if this were accurate to real teen boys I think he would have sent her Drake lyrics
W persona music in the bg (esp the maruki credits song)
also W video liked & watched to end, good stuff dude :)
So, despite the whole premise being "kids just use emojis instead of communicating," this kid made a phone call to get his whole phone erased after two minor inconveniences?
“Jailbreaks weave comes off and it’s revealed she’s actually a white woman” that’s the funniest shit.
“And the dad emoji reveals that he’s gay for his son!” AGDUVUBTJFY 💀
Best thing about this movie is that someone uploaded the entire movie onto discord in 360p and everyone watched it.
lmao and google drive too
Also, why didn't we get an explanation as to why literally ALL of the kid's friends (INCLUDING HIS CRUSH WHO'S SUPPOSED TO BE AT THE DANCE??) are at the phone store ?
As a kid I heard people talk about it and wanted to watch it but my parents are strict on what we watch so I watched it in secret and ooooh boy wish I could have those 90 minutes of my life back
I legitimately laughed out loud at the reference at 15:14
"more than i question my own gender"
why was this so real whyd u have to hit so hard with these man
I'm so sorry about your friend Kennedy, man RIP
“2017 was one of the worst years of my life”
*Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild releasing:*
Even Bendy and Cuphead Releasing:
As well as the Nintendo Switch itself.
ooh i just found your channel, your editing and jokes are really good! c: