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The Emoji Movie

Age rating, content warnings & parent guide

2017

Is The Emoji Movie appropriate for your child? See the reviewed age guidance, content cautions, positive themes, and supporting evidence below.

Gene, a multi-expressional emoji, sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji.

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Is this likely to fit your family?

Age guidanceNot listed
Strongest cautionsProducts & advertising 4/5 · Frightening scenes 2/5 · Romance 2/5
Strongest positivesCourage & resilience 3/5 · Creativity & curiosity 3/5
Recommendation3/5

Courage & resilience; strongest caution: products & advertising.

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What parents should know

Courage & resilience; strongest caution: products & advertising.

Readiness snapshotMain watch-out: Products & advertising 4/5
Recommendation 3/5

Editorial rating

How this review was built

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Recommended ageNot listed

Strongest cautions

  • Products & advertising4/5
  • Frightening scenes2/5
  • Romance2/5

Strongest positives

  • Courage & resilience3/5
  • Creativity & curiosity3/5
  • Kindness & empathy3/5

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What’s in it?

Products & advertising4/5
Why this rating?

The film is built around smartphone functions and prominently features recognizable apps, services, games, and social platforms as story settings.

Death of a character1/5
Why this rating?

Characters face digital deletion or destruction of their world, but there is no conventional character death described.

Strong language1/5
Why this rating?

Uses very mild, non-offensive language suitable for all ages.

Romance2/5
Why this rating?

Gene and Jailbreak develop feelings, with a confession and a light love story alongside a high-school crush subplot.

Frightening scenes2/5
Why this rating?

Repeated chases, threats of deletion, malware, and an impending factory reset create mild suspense for younger viewers.

Violence2/5
Why this rating?

Cartoon characters are chased and attacked by bots, malware, and a firewall; they disable threats without realistic injury.

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No concern recorded in these categories

These categories were explicitly scored 0/5 in the published review. This is not a guarantee that every edition or reader experience is identical.

Sexual content & nudity · 0/5

What’s good in it?

Courage & resilience3/5
Why this rating?

The protagonists repeatedly confront pursuit, deletion, malware, and a factory reset to save their friends and world.

Creativity & curiosity3/5
Why this rating?

The imaginative premise turns smartphone apps into interconnected worlds and encourages flexible self-expression and inventive problem-solving.

Diverse representation2/5
Why this rating?

The story includes varied emoji identities and challenges stereotyping, especially through Gene and Jailbreak, though this is not human demographic diversity.

Educational value1/5
Why this rating?

It offers incidental familiarity with emojis, smartphones, apps, and digital culture, but is primarily entertainment rather than instruction.

Kindness & empathy3/5
Why this rating?

Friends rescue one another, parents reconcile, and characters ultimately accept Gene and Mel rather than rejecting their differences.

Positive messages3/5
Why this rating?

It promotes self-acceptance, individuality, friendship, empathy, and resisting harmful stereotypes, though the messaging is delivered through broad comedy.

Good role models2/5
Why this rating?

The characters model perseverance and the value of friendship, though some behavior is comedic/exaggerated.

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  1. What did courage look like in this story? Was being brave always the same as being fearless?
  2. Did products, possessions, or buying things matter to the story? What message did that send?
  3. Which choice in The Emoji Movie would you have made differently, and why?
  4. Who changed the most in The Emoji Movie, and what caused that change?
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