Discussion Narm / TheEmojiMovie

• Alex's love letter to Addie literally consists of lyrics from Rihanna's song "Diamonds".
  • Is this not a joke? I don't recall this being played seriously
• The "Emoji Pop" dance was clearly intended to be the next "Nae Nae", but it failed miserably. It could have been a little more tolerable if it consisted of something more than just the dancer repeatedly covering their eyes and pulling silly faces.
  • It's mindbogglingly stupid, but I don't think it's narm since it's not trying to be serious.
• While the Instagram scene with Mel and Mary is actually pretty touching, it's somewhat undermined by the photo somehow becoming a 3D representation of the scene in Paris when Mary enters it.
  • Plotholes are not narm. Would need elaboration
• At one point, when the bots raid the bar filled with trolls and viruses to find Gene, Hi-5 and Jailbreak so as to delete them, one of them spots a virus, but rather than do what it is supposed to do and delete it, it ignores it entirely and keeps looking for Gene. Yeah, it is the most ineffective anti-virus system ever created, as every troll and virus they do delete are only deleted as a result of being caught in the crossfire as they try to delete Gene. Why hasn't that phone been taken over and corrupted yet?
  • Ditto
• Hi-5 saying that he learned to not be so self-centered... only to shout about how "they love us" shortly after, without any humility at all.
  • Isn't that the joke?
• The movie's attempts to mock teenagers for using their smartphones become unintentionally laughable due to how the writers then blatantly pander to them as if they wouldn't notice an insult like that, as well as getting basic facts about technology that even teenagers would know wrong:
  • The movie's constant use of "delete" to describe "factory reset".
  • There's also the fact that if the phone had been factory-reset, everything would return exactly back to the way it was if Gene didn't save the day, which renders some of the drama moot in the first place.
  • As mentioned under Critical Research Failure on the YMMV page, the fact that the movie represents trolls and Spam emails as malware (shown above) as opposed to being real people is so ludicrous (especially when considering that Sony has had to deal with them before on films like Ghostbusters (2016)) that it comes off as hilarious.
    • '''Fridge Logic or Critical Research Failure, sure, but not really narm.

I think at least some of these were intended to be dramatic/sincere. Hm. Declining the cut request. Perhaps a deletion of obviously failed jokes firstly.