A 2017 animated movie based entirely on a fictuous plot revolving around emojis. Emojis are pictographs used in text to represent an idea or the mood of the text's subject (i.e. "I can't believe they would make a movie based on emojis 🙄").
The Emoji Movie's plot is about an emoji named Gene who can make multiple expressions. He lives inside of a teenager's phone, and one day, the teenager gets texted by his crush. Alex, the teenager, decides to send an emoji back. Gene is called on to do the job, he screws up, and gets the emoji police after him.
So basically he meets this emoji named Hi-5, who used to be popular, but now isn't, for obvious reasons. Hi-5 takes him to this hacker girl who can take to the cloud (which I still don't know because I never watched the movie and just read it on Wikipedia instead) to be fixed. The hacker's name is Jailbreak, and she turns out to be your average badass heroine cliché.
The trio goes around, explores and screws up some apps in Alex's phone, Gene and Jailbreak end up
falling in love because emojis can apparently have hormones too, crap happens, and there's this
ultimate showdown which
I don't really care about. They win, have a happy reunion-celebration-whatever, because
everything has to work out in movies (see: The Fault In Our Stars). The end!
Also I'm pretty sure no one cares about Alex and his crush so I'll just leave that out
