First Teaser for THE EMOJI MOVIE Sure Knows How to Get People Excited! Not really, Though
The first teaser trailer has been released for The Emoji Movie, and it's possibly one of the worst marketing promos ever for a film. It does nothing to get anyone excited for the movie. In fact, it does the complete opposite and basically shows us how not even the studio is excited for their own film. But the teaser does sum up the movie idea perfectly with a big fat "meh" emoji. It's really not the best first impression for a movie. It's like Sony Animation is preparing it to fail. All I know is that I'll probably completely avoid this movie.
EMOJIMOVIE: EXPRESS YOURSELF unlocks the never-before-seen secret world inside your smartphone. Hidden within the messaging app is Textopolis, a bustling city where all your favorite emojis live, hoping to be selected by the phone’s user. In this world, each emoji has only one facial expression – except for Gene (T.J. Miller), an exuberant emoji who was born without a filter and is bursting with multiple expressions. Determined to become “normal” like the other emojis, Gene enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 (James Corden) and the notorious code breaker emoji Jailbreak (Ilana Glazer). Together, they embark on an epic “app-venture” through the apps on the phone, each its own wild and fun world, to find the Code that will fix Gene. But when a greater danger threatens the phone, the fate of all emojis depends on these three unlikely friends who must save their world before it’s deleted forever.
The Emoji Movie opens in theaters on August 4, 2017. Watch the trailer and tell us what you think.