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Sony Pictures Animation has added James Corden and Broad City‘s Ilana Glazer to Emojimovie: Express Yourself, its summer 2017 pic that “reveals the Secret World inside your smartphone.” They join the previously set T.J. Miller in the lead voice cast. Check out the first image above.

Anthony Leondis is directing the story that takes place in Textopolis, a bustling city where all your favorite emojis live, hoping to be selected by the phone’s user. In this world, each emoji has only one facial expression -- except for Gene (Miller), who was born without a filter. Determined to become “normal,” he enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 (Corden) and the notorious Jailbreak (Glazer). Together, they embark on an epic “app-venture” to find the code that will fix Gene. But when a greater danger threatens the phone, the fate of all emojis depends on these three unlikely friends who must save their world before it’s deleted forever.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Only condition that would allow me to watch this is if the thinking emoji is a character and if the crying laughing one is super self aware.

>a movie about emojis
>it's also generic asf
wake me up inside when 2017 ends

Slutty Witch Bitch wrote:

Only condition that would allow me to watch this is if the thinking emoji is a character and if the crying laughing one is super self aware.

plot twist: the mc becomes the crying emoji

So, I just checked when exactly the film's coming out and it releases in August 2017. August is a dump month, so I have plenty of reasons to expect this movie to flop. Besides, are we gonna make animated films about literally anything these days?

I'm already taking bets on how many dislikes the movie trailer will get.

Literally everything about this movie I've seen so far is hopelessly cliche.

- Typical "life inside a computer" setting
- Generic large city with the "xopolis" snowclone name
- Protagonist is a bland average guy whose only distinguishing feature (in this case, his being "born without a filter") is something completely beyond his control
- "Three unlikely friends" consisting of the aforementioned bland average guy, a male the protagonist has known for a while who more than likely will be the comic relief, and an adventurous good bad girl
- Vaguely defined macguffin
- Inexplicable save the world plot

Now, normally, I'd still give a movie like this the benefit of the doubt, because cliche does not necessarily equal bad. The Lego Movie included several of the above cliches and still managed to be one of the cleverest and, ironically, one of the most original films I've ever seen.

But this is a movie about fucking emoji, there's no way it can be good.

Ev-everyone t-t-thought I was nuts w-when I said this was happening, b-but I w-was right!
A-are you h-h-happy now?
Ha. haha, hahahaha,

At this point, I'm expecting Paul Blart 3.

I'm pretty sure everybody knows that it wont be good, but they will still make it since money.

I'll watch it if there is a scene where the Poop Emoji floods one or more city blocks.

w h y

>tfw The Emoji Movie is actually a thing

Textopolis, a bustling city where all your favorite emojis live, hoping to be selected by the phone’s user. In this world, each emoji has only one facial expression -- except for Gene (Miller), who was born without a filter. Determined to become “normal,” he enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 (Corden) and the notorious Jailbreak (Glazer). Together, they embark on an epic “app-venture” to find the code that will fix Gene. But when a greater danger threatens the phone, the fate of all emojis depends on these three unlikely friends who must save their world before it’s deleted forever.

From what I can tell, this movie will be cheesy and boring as shit. I'm predicting that the review scores will be 4/10 at best, along with the movie getting a Razzies nomination.

Why is this happening in this first place? Why emojis of all things? I get wanting to create film topics that are based on what people perceive as trendy and cool, but focusing your movie exclusively on EMOJIS is so specific and niche, that it's pathetic, even more so given how the majority of the internet feels about them and their overuse.

As far as they know the general public, the kind of people NEETs would call normies, still uses them seriously. All of that annoyance towards them is mostly contained here on the internet where no one would see some unfiltered opinions

It's still a terribad concept for a movie though

Kill. Me.

I guess this is a case of lego movie being too good for its own good.

At the end of the day, it's a cash grab, much like those movies, shows and cartoons you see on TV that exist purely to sell toys and merch. Hollywood knows emojis are super popular right now, especially among pre-teens and high school freshmen, as well as, dare I say it, normies who still share Harambe memes on Facebook and think winning 'Twitter beef' is an accomplishment.

I'd rather watch this on loop for 2 hours.

And it will be filled with shitty memes

the very premise of this movie leads me to believe that its going to be very lackluster. I don't know how one could make a good movie about emoji's, but i guess the same was said about lego, and it turned out well.

Just fucking end it all please.

The promotional image is literally the same thing as this obscure Spanish movie that I come across on Netflix from time to time. It's like the retarded illegitimate birth-child of the Lego Movie and Inside Out.

Part of my wants to wait until the reviews come out before judging it, just in case we have another Lego Movie on our hands. A much stronger part of me wants to write off for the "add-venture" pun.

y tho

Well, Legos are something that have been around for decades. Many people across generations have at least touched at least one brick of the stuff in their life. Maybe they played with it with their children, maybe they did play with it as children, or maybe you happened to be one of the unfortunate souls that has howled in pain from stepping on them. Many people know what Legos are and have bonded with them to the point that they have become almost as much of a household name as something could get. Combined with the fact that there are Legos for damn near everything, only God knows what the Lego Movie could have been about. Just as with Legos themselves, the possibilities were fucking endless.

Emojis, on the other hand, have become the faces of irony for those that know what they're doing. Pun intended.

When it comes out, I'm watching it to see how bad it is.

Strap in boys and gals, we're going in hard.

Well, the movie industry's pretty much dead at this point. Can't say I'm surprised at this point.

I absolutely detest emojis on their own, now it's getting its own movie! Kudos to them though for sticking to their guns and releasing it in theaters. We all remember the LAST maymay movie that was going to be a big Hollywood Blockbuster….but then Grumpy Cat died out and it got stuck being a Lifetime original Christmas movie. And holy shit you can see that they have no faith in this movie when they cast Mr. "I seriously only have enough charisma to be the main character's best friend" as THE MAIN CHARACTER.

Honestly wouldn't be disappointed to hear Emoji The Movie became a Hallmark original movie though.

So, it's a thing? It's a serious project? Some people are actually working on it? Sorry, I'm out of here.

It looks more shit than I thought it would be

nO
why is this being made? nobody asked for it..

But when a greater danger threatens the phone, the fate of all emojis depends on these three unlikely friends who must save their world before it’s deleted forever.

While it already sound like we know the ending, I would definitely want to watch an unofficial alternate ending (maybe Destruction of Lithone style) like was made for the Yogi Bear movie.

>"App-venture"

UUUUGGH

With that poster you just summarized the sad state for animation industry film in Latin America.

Now about the movie. Who knows how many creative and original film projects were dropped out by Sony Animation Pictures before this thing got greenlighted, but why on earth you would pick up the most boring, generic, uninspired setting for an animation film that features frickin' EMOJIS!?

Just why…

I'm crying right now.