LOS ANGELES Hydro Flask Coffee 12 Oz Coffee Jaune Pas Cher , Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Grossing only 83.8 millionU.S. dollars in the North America and 95 million U.S. dollarsinternationally as of Sunday, Sony's "The Emoji Movie" could havebeen a much bigger blockbuster, but missed its target.
Unable to decide on which target audience to focus on, the movietook its central theme of being "all it could be" a bit too far,trying to satisfy kids, teens and adults alike. But, by ranging toowidely, it fell short of creating what could have been a"misfit-makes-good" Hollywood classic Hydro Flask Coffee 16 Oz Coffee Blanche Pas Cher , like "Kung Fu Panda."
Industry pundit, Jeff Gund of Infolist, told Xinhua, "Knowingyour target audience for a film is critical for its success and,these days, knowing how to market to that audience is even moreso."
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Despite some very colorful and amusing characters andstorylines, "The Emoji Movie" failed to deliver on its initialpromise, receiving only a 10 percent approval rating on RottenTomatoes and a combined Metacritic Score of just 12 percent.
Variety called it "a mostly witless 'Inside Out' knockoff" andCommon Sense Media concluded, "It is pretty risky to center a moviearound the concept of 'meh' , which basically means'unimpressive Hydro Flask Coffee 16 Oz Coffee Bleu Pas Cher ,'if you're not going to hit it out of the park - andthis one unfortunately doesn't."
The film centers around Gene, a "Meh" emoji, born inside thecellphone of a boy named Alex in the fantastical world ofTextopolis, where all the emoji's live and work hoping to be chosento send texts between humans. "Meh" is a catch-all American termused to convey boredom, non-commitment, or "I don't care"indifference. Such as: "Want to see The Emoji Movie?" "Meh."
Despite some interesting ideas in this movie, it failed to bringthem to life in a compelling way. As visual environments go, theinside of a computer chip is too cold and abstract for a largesegment of the audience to relate to.
Movies that bring the human world into the computer graphicworld (Tron & Tron Legacy: 205 million U.S. dollars) havetended to fare less well than those that bring the computer worldinto the human world (The Matrix franchise: 592 million U.S.dollars).
The "misfit-coming-into-its-own" theme is also a powerful memein young adult pop culture Hydro Flask Coffee 20 Oz Coffee Rouge Pas Cher , literature and film, as the hefty booksales and even heftier box office of "Harry Potter" (2.3 billionU.S. dollars), "Hunger Games" (1.4 billion U.S. dollars),"Twilight" (1.3 billion U.S. dollars), and "Divergent" (346 millionU.S. dollars) franchises can attest to.
Raging hormones have been known to transform biddable, wide-eyedbabies into wild-eyed, post-adolescents with trigger-happy emotionsand a gift for self-destructive rebellion.
Psychology Today says, "Adolescence can be a time of bothdisorientation and discovery. This transitional period can bring upissues of independence and self-identity."
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So, audiences should identify with Gene when he realizes, "Myfeelings are huge. Maybe