’The Emoji Movie’ and its Progressive Agenda Fail Hard Among Critics
Is there an emoji for “We told you so?”
8.1.2017
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Sony’s The Emoji Movie was praised by one of its lead voice actors, T.J. Miller, for being a tool to combat President Trump and to target children so they will “adopt progressive values.” But to no one’s surprise, the movie is one giant emoji turd.
The critics have spoken — the majority being leftists — and the universal feeling among all of them is:
Top critics give the movie a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and counting all the reviews, it rises only to 6%. A total flop that no amount of identity politics could save.
“Please, never again,” one critic wrote.
“Hear that? It’s the end of the world,” stated The New York Post.
The Hollywood Reporter cracked a stinging whip: “If only this smartphone-centric dud, so happy to hawk real-world apps to its audience, could have done the same in its release strategy - coming out via Snapchat, where it would vanish shortly after arrival. But even that wouldn't be fast enough.”
For many of the critics, even the fact that the female Jailbreak character, voiced by Anna Faris, was a feminist didn’t win them over.
“Throwing in a Casablanca reference and some lip service to feminism (“Did you know female emojis could only be brides and princesses once upon a time?” Jailbreak says) doesn’t really help in a movie that only wants to dumb us down,” said TimeOut New Yorkcritic Tomris Laffly.
Entertainment Weekly’s Darren Franich, who gave the movie an F, complained the progressive values weren’t pushed hard enough:
Jailbreak comes on strong with language that promises at least one of the three male screenwriters read Jezebel once: “Women are always coming up with stuff that men are taking credit for!” she says, and “On the first Emoji set, women were either a princess or a bride!”Of course, Jailbreak is secretly a princess, spoiler alert, who cares… but when she is finally called upon to do some hacking, she can’t figure out a single password to get through a firewall until Gene tells her offhandedly if he were creating the password, “I’d probably use the name of a girl I liked.” Of course she says “I’m not just some princess waiting for my prince” right before she decides to return to the main-character male Emoji and help him on his journey of Messianic fulfillment, literally at one point saying “It’s because of you.”
But despite the thrashing by critics, The Emoji Movie came in second over the weekend with over $25 million at the box office, behind the war film Dunkirk. That means parents are giving Hollywood money to indoctrinate their children and that means the leftist messages will only get stronger.
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