The Emoji Movie: Junior Novel

The Emoji Movie: Junior Novelization (also known as The Emoji Movie: The Novel, or The Emoji Movie: Book of the Film) is a 2017 children's chapter novel by Tracey West, based on the critically panned The Emoji Movie, which released around the same time. It loosely follows the story of the movie.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) It retains a lot of the problems that the movie has, like the poorly written story, and poor characterization.
 * 2) Some of the characters from this book are worse than their movie counterparts:
 * 3) * To add to how poorly characterized Jailbreak is, she also developed a worse temper, most of which is due to how badly Hi-5 was flanderized.
 * 4) * Hi 5, is even more of an obnoxious, narcissistic, and mean spirited character, to the point where it makes his movie counterpart look very likable in comparison.
 * 5) For no reason, a lot of the events are switched around from the movie, possibly in a terrible attempt to avoid spoilers since this released before the movie.
 * 6) * Also, some of the changes just makes the book worse than it has any right to be
 * 7) There are also an obscene amount of plot holes, and some parts of the book that makes zero sense at all.
 * 8) Smiler never gets comeuppance for any of her actions, unlike the movie, where she gets crushed by the bot, demoted, and becomes the most unpopular emoji in Textopolis.
 * 9) Some of the characters happen to be gender-swapped for no reason, possibly considering Tracey West did not pay attention to the background characters of the movie.
 * 10) There is a sexual innuendo in the book, where Poop asks Smiler to touch him. This book is supposed to be aimed at kids, possibly around 8 to 12 year olds mind you.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Unlike the film, there's no product placement at all, nor is there any "woke pandering", or dreadful attempts at being hip with the youth (asides from the Emojis themselves).
 * 2) It does stay somewhat true to the source material at least.
 * 3) One thing this book does that improves on the film is that Alex actually talks face to face to Addie in order for her to go to the dance with him.
 * 4) They explain some of the events from the book that happened in the movie in greater detail, like how Mary explains to Mel in detail about his bad actions towards her.
 * 5) Smiler does get character development at the end of the book by reforming, and therefore, turning good. Whereas in the film, she just gets defeated and is demoted all the way to the loser lounge.