10 More Movies That Suck So Bad You Can’t Believe Got Made
10. The Emoji Movie
Following on from a movie focusing on some iconic little bricks unexpectedly proving that even the silliest sounding concepts have the potential to be a hell of a time in 2014, The Lego Movie's unlikely success left some who would usually be quick to run a mile from a movie about those faces found on your phone feeling cautiously optimistic.
But the second that first trailer for this 2017 animated Tony Leondis-directed picture dropped, those same folks soon sensed that everything would not be awesome when it came to this particular cash grab. Even those who swiftly recoiled at that first look at the legendary Patrick Stewart voicing some talking crap in The Emoji Movie couldn't have guessed just how much of an unmitigated disaster was on its way, though.
Slammed as an unfunny, uninspired, and just plain lazy 86-minute experience, which also largely acted as a blatant advert for various smartphone apps, it was almost impressive just how poorly this dumb story of a multi-expressional emoji trying to become a standard one turned out.
It didn't walk away empty handed come awards season, at least, with the James Corden, T.J. Miller, and Anna Faris-starring film bringing home the awards for Worst Picture, Director, Screen Combo, and Screenplay at that year's Razzies.
How a film containing "jokes" about sophisticated turds doing their duty was ever given the thumbs up emoji is anyone's guess, but here we are.