And animated feature The Emoji Movie is so charmless that it does nothing to endear the little symbols to us.
Though surfing in on a tsunami of negative publicity, The Emoji Movie isn’t quite as awful as you maybe fear it will be.
Having worked his way up the food chain, from character designer to director, The Emoji Movie marked the director’s most expensive (and most talked about) feature to date.
On the more positive end of the spectrum, The Independent’s Geoffrey Macnab awarded the film two stars, as did Radio Times, The Express, and The Sun.