Hi-5 (James Corden), left, Gene (T.J.Miller) and Devil (Sean Hayes) with other emojis in Sony Animation’s “The Emoji Movie.” (Sony Pictures Entertainment) Perspective by Michael Cavna THERE ...

But that’s The Emoji Movie’s greatest trick: It’s gaudy and goofy enough to convince you, at a glance, that it’s harmless, similar to how the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was ...

She has spent this entire movie stuck with an overly expressive Meh Emoji named Gene and a hand with the voice of James Corden. Smiler keeps threatening to delete everyone, which honestly feels fair.

Critics resoundingly agree –“The Emoji Movie” is bad. So bad, that for a while it held a zero-percent rating on review site Rotten Tomatoes. Now it sits at a measly three percent, making it ...

Fie on this movie. 'The Emoji Movie' review: Save yourself, skip this cynical dreck. Published: ; Jul. 30, 2017, 12:08 p.m.

The animated movie starring T.J. Miller as Gene, the "meh" emoji, who goes on an adventure in a teen's phone, received the dreaded 3% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

"The Emoji Movie" is a colorful and kid-friendly — if not particularly original — adventure that imagines a world inside our smartphones where each emoji is supposed to have a single ...

There are five stages of grief in preparing to watch "The Emoji Movie ." The first is denial that this actually exists. The second is anger that now even storytelling has been reduced to those ...

The Emoji Movie opens with a voiceover from T.J. Miller proselytizing about the glory of the smartphone, which, as it turns out, is not a great way to start a movie. “The world we live in,” he ...

And so Sony and “The Emoji Movie” will be fine, and life goes on, but the fear remains that we as theatergoers are made even more cynical. If the bar for originality is low, failure to meet ...

The all-new animated movie hits theaters today. — -- The new animated "The Emoji Movie" hits theaters today, but many young moviegoers will likely be unaware that they're taking in a ...

Early reviews of “The Emoji Movie” are in, and critics, to put it gently, aren’t giving the film a “Thumbs Up.” Critics offered generally unfavorable reviews for the Tony Leondis ...