The Emoji Movie

Cast: TJ Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris, Maya Rudolph, Steven Wright, Jennifer Coolidge, Christina Aguilera

Rated: 5/10

Full marks for having such a vivid imagination around those icons making cute faces at you on your smartphone screen. Yes, those emojis say a thousand words with just one face to capture and convey your emotional state and this animation film serenades their world in all the colour, drama and fun it could gather around the algorithms.

The child sitting next to me knew all the emojis even though he doesn’t own a smartphone. “This is the twitter bird, this is poop which you throw at friends when you are feeling bad or when you are angry. This is the original smiley who can’t stop smiling and this is the hi-5 that we have trashed for new emojis,” he tells me.

Besides the fact that kids know what they are talking about, the film which imaginatively centres around an identity crisis assailing the central emoji, has all the props of an arresting animation. However, the subject may be a little less popular across children and has some of the fun element missing which means the humour is restricted and the subject limited to the knowledge of a few.

Other than that, the animation film is apt, trendy and somewhat happening.

Source: Sunday Pioneer, August 13, 2017