STEVEN WRIGHT

THE EMOJI MOVIE (2017)

Starring T.j. Miller, James Corden, Ilana Glazer, Steven Wright, Jennifer Coolidge, Maya Rudolph, Jake T. Austin and Patrick Stewart. Directed by Anthony Leondis.

Hidden within the messaging app is Textopolis, a bustling city where all your favourite emojis live, hoping to be selected by the phone’s user. In this world, each emoji has only one facial expression – except for Gene, 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 and the notorious code breaker emoji Jailbreak. 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.

REVIEWS The Emoji Movie - Meh - in more ways than one