Never forget to bring this up when someone tries to defend IGNs credibility.
They scored a literal dumpster fire higher then the MLP movie.
The mlp movie isn’t some brilliant work of art, but it’s a fundamentally competent production. The emoji movie is nothing. This is outrageous.
MLP is a feel-good movie.
It’s the sort of thing you watch and get a warm and fuzzy nostalgic high off how much it pays tribute 80s and 90s animation where the roots of MLP are.
Not ground breaking but a solid 8/10 at the least and a blast to sit down and enjoy, especially with the high-quality animation and music.
It was also one of our last bastions of hope regarding 2D animated mainstream movies. It was fucking *gorgeous* with that animation and movement.
What did The Emoji Movie offer us? Nothing. Nothing original, insightful, or even visually interesting.
THIS
The movie was gorgeous and will forever respect it had the balls to use more traditional style 2D animation at a time when full CGI still rules big-budget animation.
IGN’s credibility died that day.
I don’t see the Emoji Movie as the hellspawn Mr.Enter did another one of his Animated Atrocity retrospective on, but it didn’t offer anything new.
MLP Movie offered brilliant animation with a decent but enjoyable plot.
I remember the MLP Movie. I barely remember anything in the Emoji Movie.
Never did understand why people acted like EM was this hellspawn that will destroy animation as we know it. I’ve seen worse, it’s just a bland forgettable children’s movie that was forgotten in a week.
