The Emoji Movie (2023 film)

The Emoji Movie is a 2017 American animated science fiction comedy film produced by Universal Pictures and Illumination, and distributing by Universal. The film was directed by Genndy Tartakovsky from a screenplay by Pamela Ribon and Mike White and he co-wrote the story. The ensemble voice cast includes Chris Pratt, Jack Black, Selena Gomez, Kate McKinnon, Ralph Fiennes, Nathalie Lyonne, Christina Aguilera, Salma Hayek, Fred Armisen, and Bobby Cannavale. Based on emojis, the film centers on a multi-expressional emoji Gene (Pratt), who exists in a digital city called Textopolis, for a app-verse, embarking on a journey to become a normal emoji capable of only a single expression, accompanied by his friends, Hi-5 (Black) and Jailbreak (Gomez). During their travels through the other apps, the trio must save their world from total destruction before it is reset for functionality.