Well, here we are in 2017, and Hollywood has figured out a way to make a movie about emojis. I have no words — or emojis — to express how I actually feel about this, but if you ever wanted a full-length feature film about those little faces and icons you send to friends, well, I guess this is for you.
“The Emoji Movie” lines up a pretty decent array of voice actors, and takes audiences into the secret world of your smartphone, where emojis live and are burdened with having to make the same face all the time. Here’s the official synopsis:
The Emoji Movie unlocks the never-before-seen secret world inside your smartphone. Hidden within the messaging app is 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 (T.J. Miller), an exuberant emoji who was born without a filter and is bursting with multiple expressions. Determined to become “normal” like the other emojis, Gene enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 (James Corden) and the notorious code breaker emoji Jailbreak (Anna Faris). Together, they embark on an epic “app-venture” through the apps on the phone, each its own wild and fun world, 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.
“The Emoji Movie” opens on August 4th.