Which animated film includes a scene set within Candy Crush Saga?

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The animated film that includes a scene set within Candy Crush Saga is The Emoji Movie.

The 2017 film follows Gene, an emoji who travels through the apps and digital spaces inside a teenager's smartphone. Its story uses recognizable apps and online services as locations, turning the phone's interface into the film's wider fictional world.

Candy Crush Saga appears as one of those app environments. The reference is easy to confuse with films such as Pixels or Wreck-It Ralph, which also draw heavily on video-game imagery, but neither is the film identified with this Candy Crush setting. The Lego Movie is likewise unrelated to the scene.

The appearance reflects Candy Crush Saga's unusually broad cultural reach in the 2010s. By then, the game had moved beyond Facebook and mobile devices into advertising, television, music-video appearances, and other entertainment contexts. The film connection is a brief pop-culture crossover, not a movie adaptation of the game.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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