In The Emoji Movie, a malfunctioning Meh emoji named Gene (T.J. Miller) escapes from a text app so he can be reprogrammed (and subsequently saved from deletion) by an infamous hacker. He travels ...

This image released by Sony Pictures shows Gene, voiced by T.J. Miller, center, in Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation's "The Emoji Movie." (Sony Pictures Animation via AP) The ...

The meh emoji is named Gene. Because Gene can’t do his job properly, he’s just been informed he’s going to be executed. This is grim. 10:59 a.m.: The basic structure of this movie is very ...

This image released by Sony Pictures shows Gene, voiced by T.J. Miller, center, in Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation’s “The Emoji Movie.” (Sony Pictures Animation via AP) ...

The Emoji Movie introduced audiences to a colorful cast of characters representing the digital icons we use every day, with one of the standout performances being the voice behind Gene, the "meh ...

Hi-5 (James Corden), left, Gene (T.J.Miller) and Devil (Sean Hayes) with other emojis in Sony Animation’s “The Emoji Movie.” (Sony Pictures Entertainment) Perspective by Michael Cavna THERE ...

After almost a year of teasing, the trailer for The Emoji Movie is here and we’re not quite sure what to make of it all. It was announced last year that Sony Pictures had won a bidding war for ...

“The Emoji Movie” stars T.J. Miller as Gene, an emoji who lives inside a teenager’s cellphone where emojis have jobs expressing a single emotion for their users.

This image released by Sony Pictures shows Gene, voiced by T.J. Miller, center, in Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation’s “The Emoji Movie.” ...

"The Emoji Movie" is a colorful and kid-friendly — if not particularly original — adventure that imagines a world inside our smartphones where each emoji is supposed to have a single ...

The Emoji Movie opens this weekend in 4,069 theaters. Sony’s $50 million-budgeted animated film has been essentially held up as the death of cinema since the announcement, but at the end of the ...