It's hard to decide what is most annoying about this cinematic botch: the ugly animation, the contrived story or the blatant product placement, or the fact that the filmmakers spoil almost every gag by underlining it twice.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 20, 2020

It's a horrifying scene set atop a pile of trash, but the pure absurdity of its existence is enough to make one laugh in shock and disbelief.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 25, 2020

No one beyond the smallest of children should be entertained by this shameless money grab that fails in virtually every way.

| Original Score: .5/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

This wasn't a movie. This doesn't count.

| May 12, 2020

Really awful.

| May 12, 2020

The Emoji Movie is not suitable for kids, misrepresents the way teenagers communicate , and insults adults by trying to slip by advertisements, leaving the movie with no real audience to please.

| Oct 10, 2019

It's not good, not even acceptable, but it's neither that terrible as I was expecting. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 2, 2019

It is a bad movie and will turn your children's brains into Patrick Stewart's character.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 4, 2019

Almost shamelessly a second-rate version of Wreck-It Ralph.

| Apr 24, 2019

It's difficult to compete with the similar - and superior - concepts explored in Inside Out and Wreck-It Ralph, and the oft-travelled "be true to yourself" moral of the story is, well, meh.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 16, 2019

The story is downright nonsensical.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 21, 2019

You know you are in the middle of something cynical when the most interesting character in a cartoon is a walking digital hand whining about no longer being popular.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 20, 2019

Despite a talented voice cast, the film can't escape its baseline mediocrity. It's little more than an 86-minute branding exercise.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Feb 11, 2019

In the end, there is no reason to give your money to The Emoji Movie.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 6, 2019

This movie is, like the 'meh' emoji, kinda boring, sorta funny, and totally pointless.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 20, 2018

"I've seen worse...but I've seen a LOT better." I'll stand by that ... (It has) decent animation and other things, but the film left me meh.

| Original Score: 4.25/10 | Dec 8, 2018

Dissing cheery children's films can feel a bit like kicking a kitten and we all know how that would go down on social media, even in animated form. But sadly this, while not as irredeemably, horribly awful as I was expecting, is still pretty rubbish.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 10, 2018

This is more than a flop - it is an unmitigated cinematic disaster that deserves to be mercilessly beaten in a brutal, bloody fashion.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 1, 2018

The Emoji Movie is cynical, dull, exhausting, soulless, joyless, pointless, and never, ever funny. But on the other hand, I enjoy the faces of disappointed children, so for me the whole experience was really kind of a wash.

| Oct 17, 2018

This is a movie that should not have been made.

| Original Score: 0.75/5 | Oct 15, 2018