Y'know, I have to say I'd a tad bit disappointed that this movie is released in other countries near my birthday. Of all movies...
Hey, at least Dunkirk and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets are good.
Anyway, I'm counting on this movie not being available in Indonesian theaters, so I'm watching it for free on this site.
Yar har fiddle dee dee.
To be honest, my family and I collect pirated DVDs. 90% of the movies we own are pirated. But I'm not willing to spare any cost for a movie this bad. Even buying a pirated copy isn't worth it.
With that, let us proceed.
The first 5 minutes open up with a Hotel Transylvania short. It was amusing, and my sister and I let out a few laughs. But it also exacerbates my disappointment of Popeye's cancellation due to this movie. Not wanting to dwell on my feelings of dismay, I press on.
The vanity plate for Columbia Pictures close by having a teen take a picture of the lady and overlapping her face with the "sunglasses" emoji. Oookay...
The film then opens with a voice-over of Gene, mentioning the wonders of the smartphone world the emojis live in. It also begins by showing stars and closeups of atoms, which may be cliche but still looks cool considering the quality of the animation of this movie.
He continues to expound on how his user, Alex, and other high school freshmen we live in have their lives revolve around their phone, all while the camera cuts to a high school complex where everyone has their eyes glued to the phone. Quoth Gene:
- And, as the pace of life gets faster and faster, and attention spans get shorter and shorter - you're probably not listening to me right now - who has the time to type out actual words?
Is this how the older generation views us? Do they believe, like, oh, children are getting addicted to their phones and that makes them spoiled and ill, both physically and mentally? Let me cut the liveblog for a moment here. This actually happens with me and my parents. They blame everything, from deterioration of academic work to actual symptoms of mental illness on gadgets. Confiscating gadgets are their answer to everything. Does that make me a better human being? Maybe, but mostly no. Instead, it mostly gives me anxiety issues because of my parents. It's no wonder I never tell them anything; they'd probably take my facilities away instead of actually trying to help. I have made friends and achieved things using my gadgets, do they really want to take that away from me? There are so many articles on how gadgets negatively affect children, and we don't need any more convincing that gadgets turn children into walking zombies. But I digress.
Heck, even the "you're probably not listening to me right now" thing is patronizing, even for children. No viewer wants to have a goldfish made out of them. And text isn't entirely dead. You can convey an expression with emojis where words won't nearly be as effective, but I've never had anyone forge a deep emotional connection with others using emoji-only conversations. And if someone wants to give a specific request, they can't do so with only emojis. It may take time to type a text message, but it takes much more time to decipher a vague string of emojis.
In other words, it's called text messaging cause it's most effective when there is text, and emojis are only used for emphasis.
The scene then cuts to the surroundings of Textopolis, a world where emojis reside. The name may be uncreative, but I'll set that aside. Gene explains that every emoji has to do a certain thing every time, and that he fails at this because it is hard acting so indifferent when everything is so exciting. This is shown by him seeing Mrs Donut's donut hole babies and changing expressions, which scares the poor infants.
There are several visual jokes but they are all fall flat (which may be caused by me seeing and expecting them before.) 9 and a half minutes into the movie, when the shrimp tempura emoji with the Australian accent jumps into the prawn cocktail sauce (which, yes, anthropomorphic shrimp tempura are not expected to do), my sister cringes and demands the video be paused, which enables me to write this whole thing.
Thus, I end this installment here.
darn it Sony Ani are you even tryingalso i saw the opening skit on YouTube, and out of the several jokes there i only find one funny (the colon one). everything else just falls flat. anyway i wish you luck F. and by that i mean "i wish your sanity is still intact after you watch that trainwreck."