Ciao, cinemaphiles!
Well, you voted. And you voted WRONG!!!
That’s right, Ian and Dave had to watch The Emoji Movie. You can hear it in their weary voices, you can see it in their thousand yard stares, and you can feel it in every raw, tear-stained, grimy moment of this episode.
But what did they think of the movie? Well, let them fansplain it for you!
Thanks for listening.
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I’m so glad this won because I wanted to hear you guys deconstruct this film and talk about all the ways in which it COULD have been done better if they would’ve given it a bit more care, and you didn’t disappoint! Weeks after seeing this thing on the plane, I was still thinking about how baffling this is. Sorry to David as you definitely did not deserve this, but I really wanted to hear Ian’s take as a children’s media and comedy writer. I promise I will recommend actually good movies after this (but not always).
Could have been worse… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3o2CTDZ4cs
I’ll never be able to unsee that.
Hey you forgot to discuss a very important part of the movie: The Emoji Bop!! You know? That dance sensation that swept 2017? Or is it Emoji Pop? Whatever….
Everybody do the Meh!
Great show! I loled.
I liked your “Can I ride too?/Oh yeah, I can take 240 characters” Twitter bird joke. It would’ve made the trailer.
Thanks for taking one for the team, guys! This is a movie I wondered if I should watch for professional reasons and now I don’t have to! 😉
That was a terrible film.
OK, I did like a couple of things. Jumping from the app worlds to the desktop background was a cute way of moving about the phone. I liked some of the environments, like the frozen-in-time version of Paris. Uh, it was competently constructed.
But nothing made sense. There were things that could’ve been interesting, but everything was done as lazily as possible. Parts just felt like ads. It was corporate product squeezed into movie shape.
I saw Cats, but it’s this that sours me on ever seeing a movie with James Corden again.
Meh.
Our 6 year old went through an Angry Bird phase and the movies really aren’t that bad actually. Also, I don’t think they’re Sony movies. They’re distributed by them, but not made by them. Rovio makes all their stuff themselves, I believe. (I’m defending Angry Birds. The 6 year old will never see this. WHY?!?)
If you’re searching for movie recommendations still, might I throw out there Anna vs the Apocalypse on Netflix, or The Spy Who Dumped Me on Amazon (a Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon buddy action comedy).