The Emoji Movie (2017) poster
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FilmPG2017

The Emoji Movie

AnimationFamilyComedy

Directed by Tony Leondis

Gene, a multi-expressional emoji, sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji. From TMDB

248 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works

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The Emoji Movie is a 2017 animation family comedy film, directed by Tony Leondis, starring T.J. Miller, James Corden and Anna Faris.

  • 225 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon, TMDB reviews
  • posts span Nov 29, 2017 to Nov 4, 2026

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  • 〚Ẋ〛 @projectendo.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 23, 2026

    GOAT is well worth a watch. While the writing and humor leave a little to be desired [ à la WIR2 / The Emoji Movie ], it's negligible compared to how lovely the film is. Exceptional art direction, character design, and animation.

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  • Alex Jaffe ➡️ NYCC @alexjaffe.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2024

    The Emoji Movie is directly responsible for Jordan Peele’s directorial career. Who knows how much art will be inspired by a disgruntled actor whose agent brings them Michael Bay’s Skibidi Toilet

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  • Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tvBluesky · Jun 11, 2026

    Just saw a billboard with characters from The Emoji Movie on it??? Huh??????

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  • Mathew Buck @filmbrainbmb.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    RIP Patrick Stewart, 86. Credits include Star Trek: The Next Generation, X-Men, Avengers: Doomsday, Lifeforce, Dune (1984), Excalibur, L.A. Story, Moby Dick (1998), A Christmas Carol (1999), The Sheep Detectives, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, The Prince of Egypt, The Emoji Movie, TMNT, and many more.

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  • Tony Zaret @tonyzaret.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2025

    I will NOT ‘just read a book’ - committing to something as time consuming as a novel is a no-go when I can barely fit in my nightly re-watch of The Emoji Movie.

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  • KroboPro @krobopro.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 28, 2025

    Me and my pal Soulja Boy celebrating our shared birthday by watching The Emoji Movie, which released 8 years ago today. Grins were wide and frequent on this momentous occasion.

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  • Crimson Mayhem @crimsonmayhem.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    Wanna feel old? The Emoji Movie will be turning 10 next year.

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  • Tansy 🔞 🔜 Furpocalypse AA! @tansy.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 23, 2025

    i don’t think everyone needs to like every film but the way people refuse to even take the Emoji Movie series seriously in any capacity feels so performative in a way no other series has ever been treated, very odd to me

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  • BlueSR @bluesr.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2024

    Someone just asked me if my pfp is James Corden from the Emoji Movie. I was like, hmm. I’ve never seen that. Wasn’t that that terrible movie from like 2017 that was bad and everyone made fun of? So i google it and oh. Oh no. Oh nonono Oh no.

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  • ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 28, 2026

    9 years ago today, ‘The Emoji Movie’ released in theaters.

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  • AK @akfamilyhome.comBluesky · Apr 1, 2026

    The kids in the theater with me obviously enjoyed the movie. Would they have also appreciated a more complicated story? Maybe. But I don't think what we got here is something that's bad for kids or insults their intelligence. The way people argue you'd think they made The Emoji Movie but it's Mario

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  • Lee CroNina's The Mummymoto 💀 @spacecoyote.comBluesky · Jul 24, 2023

    can't believe this iconic moment in The Emoji Movie (2017) that we all remember is now ruined forever

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  • David M Willis! @damnyouwillis.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    Poop from The Emoji Movie has passed

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  • Wolfgal Diana @sixtytriggers.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 11, 2026

    Never forget Sony passed on Genndy Tartakovsky Popeye in favor of The Emoji Movie.

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  • 🐻GoofyAhhBear🐻 @goofyahhbear.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 29, 2025

    I really miss it when my biggest worry in life was if the Emoji Movie was gonna be a box office success

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  • Benjamin Hendricks @recapitations.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 14, 2024

    Damn the vibes: I made my sequences in The Emoji Movie look pretty damn good.

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  • Matt G. ♾️🍉 @artistsince05.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 19, 2026

    The Emoji Movie. Everyone can universally agree that this is where Sony Pictures Animation hit rock bottom and the fact that both the protagonist and the hand emoji (TJ Miller and James Corden) are horrible people in real life doesn't help.

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  • King Chromanda (AKA Ungur Dagda) @kingchromanda.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 18, 2025

    This feels like revenge on Sony for cancelling his Popeye movie in favor of The Emoji Movie. God above, this is the cinematic trailer equivalent of coming home to a burst sceptic tank.

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  • nawf4.bsky.social @nawf4.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 2, 2025

    I can. They made the Emoji Movie.

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  • Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.comBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    The Andy Serkis Animal Farm movie feels like if you tried to pretend The Emoji Movie was highbrow

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  • BoringKate @boringkate.comBluesky · Mar 23, 2026

    Incredibles 2 (2018) Hypnosis. Sister My Sister (1994) Sisters. Tully (2018) Lactation. Elf (2003) Public. Outdoor scenes featuring bystanders. The Emoji Movie (2017) Scat. Poop emoji.

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  • Theater Bootleg Archives @outofcontexttrb.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2026

    The Emoji Movie (2017) (CAM, credit to N0telu)

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  • TylerOnTheInternet @tylerontheinternet.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2026

    patrick stewart voiced a poop emoji in the Emoji Movie and McKellan was in the CGI Cats movie, all recently. i think everyone should calm down about 'feeling sorry' for them lmao

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  • CerebralHawks @[email protected]Lemmy · Dec 10, 2025

    KPop Demon Hunters came out *this year*. It *sounds* like a cheesy kids' movie. It even kinda looks like one. Or, at least, before it got super popular when everybody realised "hey, this movie is actually really good" and started playing the soundtrack nonstop between viewings. And not just little kids, middle-aged people like it, too. I've been watching and loving movies for about 40 years, and I remember seeing Mortal Kombat (1995) in theaters, and being just *floored* by that opening.…

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  • Devilby @barnaby.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 17, 2025

    Man, Sony Animation is so wild, for every "Spiderverse" movie we get, they also give us The Emoji Movie. For every KPop Demon Hunters they produce, they also push out... whatever this is.

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  • Frenchfryenjoyer (she/her) @[email protected]Lemmy · Jul 12, 2025

    The Emoji Movie

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  • comfy @[email protected]Lemmy · Jan 19, 2025

    > It is always morally acceptable? Morality is, literally, subjective. There is no universal answer to that question. I personally consider anything being sold by a distributor to be fair game, no questions asked. If I pay for mainstream music, films or games, most of the time, **zero** of that money goes to the workers who created those artworks. It just makes rich owners richer, because they legally own rights. I would go as far as to say it's *morally wrong* to pay for those things, it's…

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  • John Carpenter’s Gwen @gwennicholson.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 10, 2026

    Imagine being bodied by the studio that axed a Genndy Tartakovsky Popeye movie in favour of The Emoji Movie a decade prior.

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  • This is Halloween! @tlmylm2002.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2026

    Genuinely amazed by the amount of talent in the Cocomelon film's cast. While I still have next to no faith in the film itself, I do have a feeling it's reactions will repeat how The Emoji Movie was received a decade prior. A film that people... ...probably riled on more than they needed to.

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  • Lee CroNina's The Mummymoto 💀 @spacecoyote.comBluesky · Nov 13, 2024

    one day I will make @bobservo.bsky.social watch The Emoji Movie 👯

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  • Mat Brunet (AniMat) @matbrunetvo.comBluesky · Aug 21, 2026

    It's either they stay true to their belief that "Animation is Cinema" and do what they usually do by taking down what many are already calling the next worst animated movie, giving it the same treatment that everyone gave to Foodfight, The Emoji Movie and several other.

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  • Douglas Laubacher @inkwits.comBluesky · Jun 26, 2026

    All I'm gonna say today is that the Emoji Movie made me so mad that I must have written 1500 words. That and Twins is really good for some reason. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #FilmSky

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  • Mike Kraft @mkraft34.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 15, 2025

    I hear you, but they are also responsible for the Emoji Movie, considered to be one of the worst animated movies ever.

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  • JazzyTyfighter @jazzytyfighter.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 19, 2026

    It bears repeating: Genndy Tartakovsky’s Popeye movie didn’t get canceled because of The Emoji Movie. Make fun of the movie for everything else and showing how executives are out of touch, but this is a common misconception. It was the Sony hack.

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  • River Side Casino @riversidecasino.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 11, 2024

    We don’t really talk about the Oscars here ever since “The Emoji Movie” was snubbed in 2017.

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  • Okokimup @[email protected]Lemmy · Apr 17, 2026

    Is the Emoji Movie too obvious?

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  • Lux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.comBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    The Emoji Movie, based on the work of Michel Foucault

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  • Chuck the Vampire Slayer 🧛🏻 @sazeracla.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2026

    I love that Sir Patrick Stewart agreed to voice the poop emoji in the by all accounts terrible “The Emoji Movie,“ because it delighted his grandchildren. And at the time, Husband Unit made a magnificent meme.

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  • Kimber Johnson @kimberjohnson.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 28, 2025

    You meet someone you find attractive. They say their favorite movie is "The Emoji Movie". What’s your next move?

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  • Trevor Fox @trevorfox.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2026

    Me fighting the Emoji Movie as Quest 64

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  • Alex Jaffe ➡️ NYCC @alexjaffe.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2025

    This article is how I learned the new Smurfs movie has the same plot as The Emoji Movie

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  • Andy Mayer @andymanofmoo.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 13, 2025

    This is going to be a Saberspark video someday. "Why THE EMOJI MOVIE Is ACTUALLY UNDERRATED And BETTER Than ZOOTOPIA 2!"

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  • 💖Ruby💖🏳️‍⚧️ @digibutter64.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 10, 2025

    The Emoji Movie is on TV. Time to torture myself.

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  • ‼️➡️UNDER 18, UNABLE TO DONATE⬅️‼️ | laura ⁘☆ ⎜ 🇵🇸 🇨🇩 🇸🇩 @lauratsuki.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 20, 2026

    Oh my God bruh It looks like a scrapped character from the Emoji Movie 🥹🥹🥹 Rancid

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  • Spooky Scaryshire @chrissyd-comedy.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    This is by far the worst conceived film idea I have ever seen. Nothing else comes close. The Emoji Movie looks good compared to this mess.

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  • Call Me The Brie-ze @briesmith.xyzBluesky · May 21, 2025

    This is gonna make The Emoji Movie look like Citizen Kane

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  • Bodacious Monk @stoppostingisaac.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2025

    Unrelated but here's a link to the entire script to The Emoji Movie gist.githubusercontent.com/benisameme/b...

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  • ⚡️Neon Cowell⚡️ @neoncowell.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 24, 2024

    I watched The Emoji Movie and I’m disgusted

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  • This is Halloween! @tlmylm2002.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2026

    People will just talk about it... ...and they will move on. Hopefully. Not a ringing endorsement on The Emoji Movie, though, I still think it is a film that is nearly as bad as it gets.

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  • GᴀʀʀC @garrtoons.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2025

    Okay side note, it wasn't exactly the Emoji Movie to blame. It's more of the infamous Sony hack scenario that played a part in it's cancellation. Granted the Emoji Movie did follow after, but there is no confirmed info about Popeye being replaced by such.

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  • 💖Ruby💖🏳️‍⚧️ @digibutter64.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2026

    Rest in peace to the acclaimed voice of "Poop" in "The Emoji Movie" (2017)

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  • wolfgabe.bsky.social @wolfgabe.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2026

    For all its faults WISH absolutely does not deserve to be lumped in the same league as Foodfight and the Emoji Movie

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  • Sonny @sonnytherat.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2026

    My Movie got cancelled for The Emoji Movie 2 😞 Sorry.

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  • Lyndon @iamlyndon.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 28, 2025

    You meet someone you find attractive. They say their favorite movie is "The Emoji Movie". What’s your next move? 😱😭👋🏽

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  • Nio | The Only Way Forward is Back @neonio99.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 21, 2025

    I feel like people have forgotten that Sony released the Emoji Movie. They had to learn from THAT notoriously soulless film and the success of Spider-Verse in comparison to get where they are now. Sony Animation has been doing well, but they were absolutely not always a saint of the industry.

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  • Edothefish @edothefish.northsky.socialBluesky · May 26, 2025

    Molly Shah greenlit the Emoji Movie

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  • iDuckFilms @iduckfilms.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2026

    That's not gonna happen. It's too easy to make into a joke like The Emoji Movie. And Dreamworks will recover. Look at how Sony released Spiderverse a year after The Emoji Movie.

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  • Ahana the Solar Bunny ☀️ 🐰 @antisanitygirl.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    Apparently Patrick Stewart played the poop emoji in the Emoji Movie????????????

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  • Rayna @queenrayna1337.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 14, 2025

    Welcome back The Emoji Movie

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  • Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Grungler @pandangit.comBluesky · Nov 4, 2026

    The Emoji Movie. It went to streaming the same time my kiddo got old enough to operate Netflix on their own. I had to hear it 168 times. I refuse to buy another Sony product until I receive a handwritten apology for that movie.

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