Worst Comedy Movies Ever Made

Listen, getting in on a trend is par for the course in the entertainment world. Usually, the goal is to do it cleverly, so audiences get the impression you actually understand them. This was all lost on the makers of 2017's "The Emoji Movie," a vapid cash grab of a film whose very existence has so much densely packed "How do you do, fellow kids?" energy, it nearly collapses into a universe-destroying black hole. Such a fate would've been a mercy. Sadly, we have to go on living in a world that embraced the terrible reality that is "The Emoji Movie."

We follow Gene, a malfunctioning, multi-emotional emoji on a teenager's smartphone, who embarks on a quest to become a normal "meh" emoji, like his parents. Along the way, he meets several devastatingly unlikeable emoji characters. These include Poop, voiced by Patrick Stewart, who should have known better, and Hi-5, voiced by James Corden, whose very inclusion in a cast now acts as a siren indicating an incoming critical carpet bombing.

In the end, Gene embraces his ability to feel more than one emotion. It's a conclusion you probably saw coming from miles away. Which, incidentally, is where you would like to be while watching "The Emoji Movie."