In defense of the Emoji Movie
Really, I think people are biased against the Emoji Movie simply for the fact that it’s about emojis and they think it’s ‘cringey’. People were hating on the movie since the idea was first announced and have since refused to give it a chance. But as for actual reasons people claim it’s a terrible movie, here is my response to them.
“It’s a cashgrab.”
Oh really? You could call just about anything a cashgrab. One of the most important purposes of a company is to make money. But you can’t say Emoji Movie was only made to make money; there is really a lot of love and thought put into it, especially with all the clever things going on in the background, and it looks like the creators had a lot of fun making the movie.
“Sony cancelled the Popeye Movie for this.”
This is not true at all. What happened is that director Genndy Tartakovsky stopped working on the project in favor of finishing Hotel Transylvania 2, and working on his own movie called “Can You Imagine”. This led everybody to believe the movie was cancelled for good, but the production was just halted for a long time. Sony still has plans to make a Popeye movie, and they announced the writer on January 2016. So to sum it up: Sony did NOT cancel Popeye movie, and its delay has NOTHING to do with the Emoji Movie.
“The character designs are bad.”
The promotional images do need improving, the colors are often oversaturated and the characters might look off-putting in them. But if you look at actual movie footage itself, you’ll notice that the characters look much better in the movie than they do in the marketing! Also, I see some people saying Smiler looks creepy, but she’s not that bad, and she’s SUPPOSED to look unsettling! She’s evil!
“POOP! :(”
The Emoji Movie has Poop! Potty humor! Who cares? Just about every animated movie has potty humor, and the poop jokes in the Emoji Movie trailers are actually really funny ones in my opinion. Captain Underpants had an abundance of potty humor and nobody complains about it.
“The humor is bad.”
Is it? I don’t see how it’s any worse than humor in other animated comedy movies. Personally, all the trailers make me laugh a lot. Lighten up! If any of the jokes were in a Disney movie people probably wouldn’t complain, but people are desperate for reasons to justify their unfairness towards the Emoji Movie.
“It rips off Lego Movie/Wreck-it Ralpth/etc”
Nothing is completely original, from what I see in the trailers it seems to have some pretty cool ideas. This movie is meant to be entertaining, silly fun, it doesn’t have to be unique and complex. Plenty of movies seem similar to each other, you don’t have to give all the bad rap to Emoji Movie.
That’s all I’ve got for now. I know my input might not be the best since I haven’t seen the movie yet, but these are just my opinions based on the trailers and everyone clung to hating the movie before it was even released so.
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