Wall-E (MiceChat Reviews)

[ashley solo]

Since this movie is something just so totally different for an animated film, I could understand people being "disappointed" or not liking it, but how can some one say it was a bad movie?

I don't like the sci fi genre so I obviously haven't seen these movies that were copied in Wall-E. I can understand the frustration with that, but I don't see how that could mask the other brilliant aspects of the movie. I don't know how animation works and I never will, but it looked absolutely amazing. Not just HOW things look, but how it was pulled together. The movie was animated how a movie is shot. There was change of focus in panning shots! AMAZING!

Maybe I liked it because the "omg Earth is in a horrible state and humans are fat and lazy" story line was put aside for the Wall-E/Eve love story. Not to say I didn't like the storyline, but it wasn't my focus. As I think it shouldn't have been, it was definitely the B storyline. Even though I could see how Pixar or many environmentalists may say that isn't the case... eh. Whatever. I've never felt for a character as much as I felt for Wall-E. To love a character so much who doesn't even SPEAK is beyond amazing. There's even a scene that shows *something* with just visuals... the whole movie is a visual of love, compassion, and well... ok love, again.

Some one had a gripe about all the Hello Dolly music, but I thought it was such a charming touch of getting into Wall-E's heart... or recording device. What a great touch. I loved it.

The live action thrown in was a bit weird for me but I love the actor that played the "President" or whatever.

Man this movie was so good... boy solo and I have both deemed it perfect. And I'll keep that claim. I laughed, I flipping CRIED, and it was a wonderful two hours.

Oh! And did anyone else see the Pizza Planet truck?!

[Tui]

Originally Posted by ashley solo

I don't like the sci fi genre

I read this and looked at your avatar, and laughed.

Originally Posted by ashley solo

Oh! And did anyone else see the Pizza Planet truck?!

I did, my little brother was impressed when I nudged him and told him that.

As far as people saying that this movie is "ripping off" other Sci-Fi movies, I don't see it that way. I felt like they were paying tribute to these movies, and I thought that was really cool. Kids are going to grow up and see the movies that inspired Wall-E and think of how cool it is.

[BC_DisneyGeek]

Wonderful movie.

I agree with many reviews, that the beginning of the movie was best, with the middle parts being a bit formulaic and slower. Dragged for me a bit in the middle, but was still excellent through and through. Always a shame when a movie opens stronger than it ends, but even the "slow" parts are above and beyond better than most movies out there. Never thought for a second Wall-E wouldn't recover in the end, but still an emotional scene.

I might be imagining things, but I thought I saw a Toy Story cameo amidst Wall-E's belongings.

The trailers were almost all cartoons (Monkeys in Space, some other creatures in space, Igor, & Bolt). I emphasize that they looked like cartoons. Pixar movies cannot be called cartoons, they create worlds. The visuals are just so above and beyond other CG movies, they're not anywhere near being in the same league.

It was interesting that they used human actors. That was different. Must have been easy casting the lone male voice in the movie - it had to be Ratzenburger!

Did everyone else get that Beverly Hills Chihuahua trailer? What was up with that? Thought I was on an acid trip or something for a minute there...

[Rapunzel]

Defiantly up there on my Pixar film list. I'll have to see it again though. One of the ONLY things that bothered me about the film was the character designs. Not the best. But the character animation was AMAZING and the story line was BEAUTIFUL and so were the visuals. While the Incredibles had a seamless story line, Wall-E doesn't. But its a much more courageous story line too.

The A113 reference was huge in this film too!!!

[NeverNeverland]

I gave it 1 star - I don't think Pixar's losing its touch... I just think they came out with a lousy movie. I guess I should have voted 2 stars because I LOVED the message about wasting and being blind to the world around you - all the human stuff was really good but the robot stuff fell flat.

BTW this contains spoilers...

The movie was boring. I kept waiting for SOMETHING to happen but nothing did. I had no idea where the movie was going - bad foreshadowing. And they took way too long to show us why eve having the living thing inside her was bad. Long stretches of nothing. And they did a bad job of explaining things, like I didn't realize the captain's computer actually made sure the ship was flying straight until suddenly they were all crashing down the side of the ship then the captain righted it. It was so confusing.

There were so many impossible things (leaving alone how they could have feelings for each other and how even after his motherboard got replaced he suddenly was "in love" with her again when he had no clue who she was a moment earlier). A few off the top of my head: a videotape lasting 700 years, not to mention that he screwed the tape right back in. The fire extinguisher lasting that long, in space? (though that WAS my fave part, even though it went on way too long). He didn't know what a ping pong ball or a bra was but he knew how to work the vcr. How did get electricity? He was scared of the lightbulb eve had but he had electric lights anyway.

And the unexplained: What happened to the other robots? What was that windstorm all about? Why was only 1 cockroach still alive? How are the humans gonna get rid of all the garbage that's still there? How did that 1 plant repopulate everything? Why were there just babies and adults and none in between? How was the populace even repopulated when all they did was stare in their screens? When do they even get behind the screens? And I thought the bad cleaner upper guy was in the garbage chute with them, but I guess that was someone else 'cuz the bad one appeared later.

And I guess I don't understand why humans being wasteful and collecting "stuff" is bad but it's OK that Wall-e does?

This movie was too close to reality to be was "really unreal" as Toy Story or Cars or even Bugs Life. This could potentially happen and for such a realistic movie it was unrealistic and boring.

/2 cents!

[whamo]

I love "Wall-E" the character, but the story is flat.

[DATman]

Originally Posted by NeverNeverland

I gave it 1 star - I don't think Pixar's losing its touch... I just think they came out with a lousy movie. I guess I should have voted 2 stars because I LOVED the message about wasting and being blind to the world around you - all the human stuff was really good but the robot stuff fell flat.

BTW this contains spoilers...

The movie was boring. I kept waiting for SOMETHING to happen but nothing did. I had no idea where the movie was going - bad foreshadowing. And they took way too long to show us why eve having the living thing inside her was bad. Long stretches of nothing. And they did a bad job of explaining things, like I didn't realize the captain's computer actually made sure the ship was flying straight until suddenly they were all crashing down the side of the ship then the captain righted it. It was so confusing.

There were so many impossible things (leaving alone how they could have feelings for each other and how even after his motherboard got replaced he suddenly was "in love" with her again when he had no clue who she was a moment earlier). A few off the top of my head: a videotape lasting 700 years, not to mention that he screwed the tape right back in. The fire extinguisher lasting that long, in space? (though that WAS my fave part, even though it went on way too long). He didn't know what a ping pong ball or a bra was but he knew how to work the vcr. How did get electricity? He was scared of the lightbulb eve had but he had electric lights anyway.

And the unexplained: What happened to the other robots? What was that windstorm all about? Why was only 1 cockroach still alive? How are the humans gonna get rid of all the garbage that's still there? How did that 1 plant repopulate everything? Why were there just babies and adults and none in between? How was the populace even repopulated when all they did was stare in their screens? When do they even get behind the screens? And I thought the bad cleaner upper guy was in the garbage chute with them, but I guess that was someone else 'cuz the bad one appeared later.

And I guess I don't understand why humans being wasteful and collecting "stuff" is bad but it's OK that Wall-e does?

This movie was too close to reality to be was "really unreal" as Toy Story or Cars or even Bugs Life. This could potentially happen and for such a realistic movie it was unrealistic and boring.

/2 cents!

If you had paid attention, most of your questions would have been answered.

1. Bad foreshadowing - why would you want a movie to tell you exactly what would happen in it? Slight foreshadowing, which is done by Wall-E showing Eve that he can fix himself, is all a movie should ever have.

2. The point of waiting to show why Eve had the plant was to make us think about why it is so necessary. Not everything is flat out said through dialogue in this film, it is revealed through image. The image of the plant itself is a sign of hope for Earth's future. Eve was sent by the humans to probe for signs of life, which is why everything she scanned (up till the plant) came up blank.

3. The wheel was called auto-pilot. If the captain did nothing, then auto-pilot must have been steering through the entire movie.

4. The videotape, fire extinguisher, etc. Are you really going to criticize an animated movie about overweight humans flying around on a massive spaceship for having a really old videotape and a fire-extinguisher (that could easily be maintained by the robots and could also easily be replaced and rebuilt on the ship). Not to mention Wall-E has had 700 years to figure out how to work the VCR. He had just discovered the ping-pong ball and the bra. The videotape he could have had for any number of years.

5. He wasn't scared of the lightbulb, he was confused because he didn't know it could do that. He was surprised also, because he couldn't make that happen. He had christmas lights, which don't look anything like normal light-bulbs.

6. The windstorms were the ships bringing the probes down to earth.

7. The reason why the other robots were broken is unexplained, but the reason why Wall-E is alive is because he figured out how to fix himself.

8. The humans will get rid of the garbage themselves. That was one of the final messages of the movie - that there is always hope for change as long as we are the ones who decide to put the effort forth. This is why operation clean-up failed in terms of meaning. It was because the humans were too lazy to do it themselves. Now, they are not and so there is hope.

9. Maybe the teens were just as fat as the adults and so you couldn't tell them apart. I really don't know on this one.

10. They had cyber-dating, it was just the one lady who was being picky.

11. There was only one Moe ("cleaner-upper guy) in the film. He was always frustrated by the mess Wall-E was making and so followed him everywhere. That didn't make him bad,and he was nice to Wall-E once he was clean.

12. Wall-E collected things out of pure curiosity and innocence. He marveled at the small things as well, the things that weren't fancy or expensive. Even his tv was a tiny iPod, not a huge flat-screen. he could have easily collected things that were more expensive, like the holographic screens and such, but that would be where his collecting could actually be compared to the humans because it would have been about the latest and greatest technology. He also didn't throw anything away.

To me, it feels like you spent the film questioning rather than searching for answers. This is a film that is not designed to spoon-feed everything to it's audience, which is part of its brilliance.

[GothicManor]

One thing they didnt elaborate on was human reproduction but from the inferences of the nursery and that humans not only never touched eachother but also seemed to not even be aware of each other existence in the "real" world, I believe once the humans left the nusery's they were in their hover chairs and 100% interacted via their video screens not even seeing what was outside the screens for the most part (with the exception of interacting with service bots) I believe they had virtual dating and maybe sex via their video screens but never in the real??

Actual reproduction was obviously artificial done in labs perhaps even clones.

Also what was the population of the human race? There only seemed to be that one ship and it seemed to only have a few thousand humans on it, I guess all the others had perished over the centuries?

The scene of Fred Willard (who was great btw but I thought he should have been digitally altered a bit to look more animated or perhaps they wanted to hit the message home harder by have a real humans in the film??) who was both CEO of BnL and President of earth (both are the same) showing that there was chaos at the end , he says earth is toxic nothing can live and the cleanup and return is cancelled he then dons a gas mask and says lets get out of here! meaning evacuate earth, I can only assume they could not and or did not evacuate all humans only the wealthy and powerful got to go on what I assume was a very expensive 5 yr space cruise and the other 99.99% of humans had to stay and perished???

Another thing that I thought during the movie is here we have humans on a starship and they ARE NOT exploring at all, in fact they just live thru there personal vid screens and dont even look out the windows at the galaxy's they dont even know they have a pool (which they are forbidden to use anyways lol) even tho they seem to spend every day by the poolside.....

[Wotan]

Of the various science fictions movies Wall-E was evocative of, the one that sticks in my mind the most, by and large, is "Silent Running". Did anyone else think of this one? Has anyone else seen it or remember it at all?

[Top Chef Remy]

I loved it, but it's not my favorite ( but I bet you can guess what is). I did enjoy the beginning more, but I found the rest highly entertaining as well. I totally got involved with Wall●e and Eve and choked up. After I saw the movie I rushed into Disneyland and saw that not a lot of merch was available, and at WOW some of their shelves were pretty empty (but at night a few more things were stocked pretty empty though). Also I'm not a big pin collector, but I tend to buy pins during Halloween and Christmas. I wanted to get a Wall●e pin, but they were sold out through out the park. They only had Eve left. I was told they will get more though.
This movie is great and worth seeing, but it's not Pixars best. I can think of another movie besides my favorite that is better. Also LOVED the short before!!!

Okay so who's ready for Beverly Hills Chihuahua?! Just kidding

[ChurroMan]

I honestly hate people saying this film is boring.

God forbid Pixar tries something new and makes the audience think and feel rather than shove the screen with a bunch of colorful characters and watch them fall down the stairs while making references to 80s pop songs.

I feel bad for people who couldn't appreciate this film because they were too busy waiting for Buzz and Woody to come out rather than not have their questions answered and be in complete awe of the film.

[ChurroMan]

Originally Posted by techskip

I have to be perfectly honest, and I know I will get jumped for saying this. Wall E is a basic ripoff of most major Sci-Fi movies from within the last 2 decades. Sorry... had to be said. It is one thing to "bowrrow" elements of Hal and Johnny 5, and quite another to make your character parallel them in multiple ways! The whole "Earth is trashed" message has been overdone on many many occasions and the overweight lazy people dates back to the origins of the Sci Fi genre itself. Instead of bringing something new to the table, Wall E stole the feast and called it it's own.

Pixar short before the movie was HYSTERICAL... and sadly was the highlight of the whole evening for me.

Yeah because movies in which robots are sent down to earth to clean up humanity's garbage while they float through space as extremely overweight blobs is pretty much a genre by now?

Stop confusing clever references that dont say "THIS IS FROM 2001" with stealing .

[Tui]

Originally Posted by NeverNeverland

I gave it 1 star - I don't think Pixar's losing its touch... I just think they came out with a lousy movie. I guess I should have voted 2 stars because I LOVED the message about wasting and being blind to the world around you - all the human stuff was really good but the robot stuff fell flat.

BTW this contains spoilers...

The movie was boring. I kept waiting for SOMETHING to happen but nothing did. I had no idea where the movie was going - bad foreshadowing. And they took way too long to show us why eve having the living thing inside her was bad. Long stretches of nothing. And they did a bad job of explaining things, like I didn't realize the captain's computer actually made sure the ship was flying straight until suddenly they were all crashing down the side of the ship then the captain righted it. It was so confusing.

There were so many impossible things (leaving alone how they could have feelings for each other and how even after his motherboard got replaced he suddenly was "in love" with her again when he had no clue who she was a moment earlier). A few off the top of my head: a videotape lasting 700 years, not to mention that he screwed the tape right back in. The fire extinguisher lasting that long, in space? (though that WAS my fave part, even though it went on way too long). He didn't know what a ping pong ball or a bra was but he knew how to work the vcr. How did get electricity? He was scared of the lightbulb eve had but he had electric lights anyway.

And the unexplained: What happened to the other robots? What was that windstorm all about? Why was only 1 cockroach still alive? How are the humans gonna get rid of all the garbage that's still there? How did that 1 plant repopulate everything? Why were there just babies and adults and none in between? How was the populace even repopulated when all they did was stare in their screens? When do they even get behind the screens? And I thought the bad cleaner upper guy was in the garbage chute with them, but I guess that was someone else 'cuz the bad one appeared later.

And I guess I don't understand why humans being wasteful and collecting "stuff" is bad but it's OK that Wall-e does?

This movie was too close to reality to be was "really unreal" as Toy Story or Cars or even Bugs Life. This could potentially happen and for such a realistic movie it was unrealistic and boring.

/2 cents!

I'm fairly certain that you didn't pay any attention to the movie.

Every single thing you brought up as a negative aspect of the movie either has an answer provided in the movie or is just flat out false or an incorrect assumption.

[ldybgstm]

I loved the film! I didnt mind that there was minimal dialog. It was beautiful. As they say a picture is worth a thousand words! But i do have one question: Is there a particular reason why Hello Dolly was the movie Pixar chose to teach Wall-E about love? Someone did say a song from this movie is used on Main Street. Could that be a reason?

[goatdan]

I couldn't resist, and I told my wife yesterday that I was going to see it with or without her. She eventually caved, although she was skeptical because the last five or six animated films we have seen we both thought were somewhere between "Meh" and "Horrible", but we went out to the movie. Got there, sat down and started to watch the previews...

Originally Posted by BC_DisneyGeek

Did everyone else get that Beverly Hills Chihuahua trailer? What was up with that? Thought I was on an acid trip or something for a minute there...

I was halfway through leaning over to my wife to make a bet that it won't make $5 million dollars, when our theater (which was the 6:45 showing, so it was full of families) burst into applause for it. After the movie, a bunch of kids were pointing at the sign for it outside the theater and saying, "Let's see that next, PLEASE!" So, as my wife said after the applause, "I guess we found the audience."

Anywho, I was really surprised and really really impressed by the movie. I thought I would like it, but I walked away thinking that it was the best Pixar movie to date in my mind. Not just did it have a very unique presentation, the storyline didn't use a ton of foreshadowing to give you an idea of exactly what to expect. We last rented Ratatoulie after hearing such great things about it, and we both found it to be completely predictable and pretty dull because of it. I knew about the human characters from some limited stuff I had seen about it online, but my wife was absolutely surprised that it was so biting, going as far as to ask whether people will complain about the way that humans are portrayed in this movie.

The development of the first part of the movie is amazing. You have to really be paying attention to see exactly what is going on (my wife missed about a minute, and then was very confused things for a while), but the way it is laid out is amazing. And no movie that I know of does it better.

Sure -- the movie alludes to movies like Short Circuit and 2001 and stuff, but the story is completely different because of the love story between the two robots and the minimal amounts of dialog that they speak.

Overall, this is the most surprising Pixar flick I've seen since the first Toy Story, and I think the most entertaining and well put together movie... for adults. The fact was though that most of the theater was filled with kids who were horribly noisy and howling for the short before the movie (which was fine -- I'm not complaining), but they didn't seem to grasp the story. The first 30 minutes was filled with loudly asked questions like, "Where are his friends?" "Why does he live there?" "What is he doing?" "Why doesn't he do something else?" and statements like "I'm bored." I worry that this film won't do so well not because it isn't strong, but because Pixar usually does rely at least partially on connecting with both kids and parents, and I don't think the movie resounded with kids much at all.

Having said that, I don't care -- I loved it for what it was, and hope to see it again in the theater!