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. ... And then a high-five emoji.

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) --The smiley face, the high five, and yes, even the poop emoji, are all featured in The Emoji Movie.It explores Textopolis, the imaginary world in our phones where the emojis ...

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’s most insidious trait is its surface-level ... sends a swarm of anti-virus killbots to erase Gene. Gene, in turn, gets the hell out of Textopolis with a high-five emoji, ...

There are many ways to describe torturous boredom: numbness, pins and needles as your limbs fall asleep. “The Emoji Movie” is such a dud that it can’t even arouse those feelings. … ...

The Emoji Movie Review Gene (TJ Miller) is an emoji who finds it hard to stick to his one, pre-ordained expression: Meh. He sets out on a journey to become a better Meh with an underused high-five ...

Tony Leondis' kid-flick 'The Emoji Movie' tries to turn text-message punctuation into a colorful adventure. By THR Staff Here’s what you tell yourself when you accept an assignment to review a ...

To fix this, he joins forces with the high five emoji called, um, Hi-5 (James Corden) and a hacker emoji called Jailbreak (Anna Faris) and journeys towards the Dropbox app. Also in this movie: Sir ...

You can’t judge a movie by its source material: the much-maligned jukebox musical genre gave us “Rock of Ages,” yes, but it also made “Singin’ in the Rain” possible. And we were all ...