The entire plot is built around the idea that DropBox will provide salvation for our weary protagonist: Gene wants to be uploaded into the cloud - securely, of course, through DropBox - to illegally modify his code and become a less expressive emoji. The word "DropBox" is used so often in The Emoji Movie that it starts to feel like a piece of native advertising for the file-hosting service. The Emoji Movie one-ups them all by going big on branding: This isn't your grandpa's cloud joke - these are DropBox gags! Look at how the Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz comedy Sex Tape wrang the concept dry through constant " the cloud" references - or this throwaway line from Creed where aging meat-puncher Rocky thinks "the cloud" is, you know, a fluffy thing in the sky. Hollywood screenwriters have a fixation with "the cloud" as both a technological concept and as a way to make labored dad-jokes. Yes, the poop emoji makes an appearance as well. A hi-five hand emoji (James Corden) and a codebreaker emoji with a beanie named Jailbreak (Anna Faris) join him. Miller, who must leave his home of Textopolis on a journey of self-discovery deep into the matrix of the phone he lives in, which belongs to a doltish 14-year-old boy. The brutally reviewed movie tells the story of Gene, a "meh" emoji voiced by wayward Silicon Valley star T.J.
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