Okay, hot take of the decade, but it's my opinion and I'm sticking with it:
Y'all motherfuckas ain't giving THE EMOJI MOVIE a chance.
The trailer looks no worse than the other kajillion CGI kids movies released in the last few years. You just hate it already because emojis. And why? WRECK-IT RALPH took place in video games and everyone loved it. Why not a phone?
"Well, exactly! It's a WRECK-IT RALPH rip-off!" I guess... in the same way SLEEPING BEAUTY was a SNOW WHITE rip-off, I guess. It's only the second "what if lines of code had feelings" movie. The premise hasn't been done to death. There's room to play in the sandbox. No, I know EXACTLY why everyone who gave WRECK-IT RALPH a chance is hating on THE EMOJI MOVIE without seeing it.
WRECK-IT RALPH was based on nostalgic shit from your childhood. THE EMOJI MOVIE is based on shit from children's current childhoods. And because it's based on some NEW dadblasted millennial contraption that didn't exist when you were a kid, it has no right to exist, right?
I promise you, if RALPH had come out in the 80's, it would've gotten that same reception. Hell, no critics took TRON seriously at the time. Instead, RALPH came out in 2012, when it didn't make a lick of sense that kids would still be hanging out at arcades. So it was brilliant.
Will THE EMOJI MOVIE be good? I don't fucking know, I haven't seen it. But it MIGHT be. There, I said it.