10 Ways 2017 Movies Definitely Made Us Dumber

Jostling Geostorm for the not-so-coveted title of 2017’s most asinine film is The Emoji Movie, but with a total of four Razzie nominations to its name, Sony’s idiotic animation just pips it to the post. Just.

Why on earth anybody thought a movie about emojis was something the world needed is beyond us, but the end result is basically an 86-minute-long advert hawking smartphone apps masquerading as a family-friendly film whose whole premise relies on building jokes – and weak, unfunny jokes at that – via app brand recognition. Crying-laughing face emoji times three.

Now, it’s a well-known fact that us modern humans already spend far too much time staring at our phones in a zombie-like state while snubbing interaction with our fellow man in favour of flicking through our Facebook feeds or playing a round of Candy Crush and recent research conducted by clever people at universities shows that our over-independence on our phones is making us stupider.

The Emoji Movie doesn’t care about this one jot though. In fact, it actively encourages us to spend more time on our phones which would – if those clever research folk are right – make us even more stupid than we already are. Essentially, The Emoji Movie is the cinematic equivalent of microwaving your own head.