Wall-E

[LoneWolf23]

What I enjoyed was there was no real villians. Yes, AUTO and gofer (under AUTO's direction) did some unpleasant things, but they did it because they were told to and had good reasons to do what they did. Spoiler on what:

Spoiler

prevent human extinction.

Indeed, and take BnL.. While it's implied that it's constant encouragement to consumerism is what caused the crisis in the first place, they're shown to have spent the last of their energies working to fix the problem they caused.

 

[Plane Sailing]

I've just come back from seeing it and... it was OK.

I really liked it on a technical level - the imagery of the desolate earth and some of the depth of field work they did was amazing - and Wall*E was a likeable character.

However, I sometimes found I got a little bored by it, and it was far less entertaining for me than Kung Fu Panda (I thought it was going to be the other way round, but there you go!)

Cheers

 

[Pfhoenix]

Wall-E is truly a gem of a movie. I saw it with my wife and three boys (all under 9 years old) and we all enjoyed it immensely.

With respect to BnL, and talking messages/themes here, you have to understand something - BnL is the *only* entity shown ever. This implies not crass commercialism, but absolutely monopoly over business, economics, and even government. With no competition, you have no Capitalism, and thus any statement attempted to be made concerning Capitalism becomes, in fact, a very accurate statement concerning Communism. From this perspective, a lot more becomes clear - the similarity of all the humans in what they do, wear, and "eat", even their slovenly nature from a life of invariance and lack of effort.

Wall-E is, whether by design or accident, a movie with an absolutely excellent message - one of what it means to be human, the strength of the human spirit in its individuality, and the appreciation of life that we're all capable of when allowed (taking the blinders off) to see things as they are. That it takes a lovable little sentient robot to show these people how to be human is part of the charm of the movie.

 

[Amphimir Míriel]

Couldn't disagree more. Wall-E was great but definitely not kid-friendly, especially when compared to Monsters Inc or Bug's Life. Not that Wall-E was scary or anything just that's the concepts are so beyond a younger audience.

I would argue that even 9-10 year-olds, unless they were fairly advanced, would understand the concepts of Earth being abandoned, the pile-up of trash and garbage, and the sedentary life-style that the humans lived. Even the relationship between Eve and Wall-E would probably go over the head's of younger children.

My brother went with our 3 and 5-year olds cousins and he said they were bored for most of it. They liked Wall-E and the characters but overall, they didn't "get it".

Well, I went to see the movie with my 3 year old (Well 3.9, it was a few days before his 4th birthday) and he enjoyed it immensely.

I was curious about this, so I asked him what was the movie about, and he said:
"Wall-E is all alone, and then he meets EVE, and then they become friends, and then EVE has to take the plant to the spaceship, and then Wall-E wants to go with her, and then they find each other and are friends and are happy."

So, yeah, he missed the consumerism warning and the jabs at Walmart but he did enjoy the movie... I mean he watched it entirely without making a noise, and he rarely does that... he usually becomes distracted on the slow parts or just goes asleep.

 

[Morrus]

I just can't get into these PIXAR things. I clearly have no soul.

Saw it last night, and walked out thinking "meh". My girlfriend liked it, though, so I guess that's what counts.