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
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)
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.
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
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.
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!
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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 RU-vidr 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".
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
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
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
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
@@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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 RU-vid gamer. Literally replaced the other tech kids month of work in 2 hours.
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 was a fourteen year old with a learning disability when this... shit sandwich of a movie came out. Worse, it ended up as one of the movies middle school teachers put on in that weird limbo after exams, but before the year was over. Those weeks I played the disabled card frequently and without shame to leave those teacher's classrooms.
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
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 ?
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
Found your channel a few months ago with my partner and we have really enjoyed the the content and humor of your videos but the joke at 1:56 just wasn't it, my guy. We couldn't even watch the rest afterwards with such a jarring remark.😕Yes, this movie is absurd and baseless and corporate, but a joke about it shouldn't be at the expense of people who have actual disabilities (my partner has a disability so the comment felt especially targeted). At the end of the day it really puts them at the butt of the joke rather than the actual content you're critiquing. That being said, I'm aware that this video is 5 months old and hope to see your commentary style strengthen from here!
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.
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
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?
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."
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 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?”
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
Im just wondering how their world works. If the parents are the same emoji are they like siblings cuz they only ever show like 3 of each emoji. The parents and the child
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"
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
I’m glad I’m not the only one who cared about the just dance girl. she was just dancing and being silly and she was sent to the trash for the rest of her life! she didn’t deserve that :( (that shitty hand can rot in emoji hell tho)
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
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!
They scrapped a **James Baxter** Medusa movie in order to make room/work on The Emoji Movie instead so just keep that in the back of your mind anytime you remember this dumbass film
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.
