Great movie, I also wasn't a fan of the song... a few minor nitpick things as well... I don't think it's up there with my favs from Pixar... even though there's nothing they should've done differently.

I guess I'll have to break down and see it. I hated 'Cars' and 'Rattooie' or what ever that movie was, so I had lost quite a bit of faith in Pixar. Glad to see they restored the magic with Johnny 5 ..err...Wall-e.

Near perfect as a movie can get.

10/10

I have to agree with Brian Orndorf on this. It bugs me a bit that Disney/Pixar is complaining about consumerism.

How much shit did they slap the characters from Cars on?

It's not Disney/Pixar that's complaining about consumerism. It's Andrew Stanton. It's his movie.

Presto was hilarious. Easily one of my favourite Pixar Shorts. It was witty, clever, cute, brilliantly animated, and executed with perfection. It was quick paced and really blew me away.

WALL•E was a beautiful film. I know, I know...it is a bit hypocritical for Disney/Pixar to preach non-consumerism, but I really wasn't thinking about that during the film, and to be perfectly honest...if anyone WAS thinking of that during the movie, I feel sorry for them. I lucked out and had a theater with a lot of well-behaved kids. I was surprised. The animation was perfect, and the characters were more than enjoyable. I knew I'd love WALL•E (the robot) from the start, but I wasn't as sure about EVE and MO, but ended up loving them as well. EVE's eyes are so telling and so natural. MO was HILARIOUS, I really think the movie could have used more of him. My favourite moment with MO was I also liked the robot that was simply clicking the buttons, and then WALL•E waved to him. If you've seen it you know what I'm talking about. Jeff Garlin was perfect as the Captain. I really enjoyed listening to him, and found him a welcome member of Pixar voice actors. I could go on and on about this film, but there really isn't a point. Easily one of the biggest achievements in Pixar Animation, and definitely up there as one of their best films.

P.S. Cars didn't suck.

Loved it...and Presto was brilliant too. Wall*E was just a fun, cute and heartwarming movie...nothing more and certainly nothing less. I'd easily rank it right up there in the Pixar canon with the likes of Monsters Inc. and Toy Story 2. 100X better than Cars!

Wow, just read the DVDTalk review. I don't even have to see the film to say that review is completely worthless and ignorant.

Surely DVDTalk must be able to find competent reviewers??

Shoot, 97% at Rotten Tomatoes, that's amazing.

It wasn't preaching non-consumerism. It was criticizing more of the culture in which we're getting fat, stupid and lazy as we're ruining our own planet at the same time.

Satire works wonders and can go far (let it be Idiocracy which shares a lot of the same themes or even the original Dawn of the Dead with it's slant against consumerism). Being preachy makes you look a pretentious asshole.

Stanton's focus on that definitely hurts a lot of the wonderful stuff the first act built up upon.

I agree with DVDtalk's reviewer, the movie couldn't sustain itself and collapsed under its own weight some time on the space ship through the end. The beginning had great potential. The hypocrisy of the movie isn't its undoing, but worth noting, I see right through the cute face companies such as pixar/disney, google, and apple put on and am frightened by how many buy right into it.. However I don't think the arts are supposed to change us, instead maybe reflect the conscious of the people, not for us but for history to look back on and understand the psychology of these times. I'd rank WALL-E as a B -/ C+ for its aspirations and creativity

"Presto" the animated short before "Wall-E" was a much more entertaining piece of entertainment than the main attraction, unfortunately.

It's weird to be out of sorts with the positive critical response to Wall-E. I enjoyed the look of the film, the CGI was breathtaking throughout the film (Hell, Roger Deakin was brought in for lighting and cinematography input), but, and it's a big BUT, I just didn't get invested in any of the characters to give a damn about the remaining 2/3 of the film after Wall-E and Eve's introductions.

I think I just couldn't handle all the cute gags and bits designed to induce laughter and "aww..." in youngsters, it just got a little too much for me. The film itself just couldn't quite sustain my interest as it turned into more of a homage of 2001 in the latter part of the film, even if it kept trying to dance around its environmental/consumerism message by pouring on all the cute sight gags and tugging at heartstrings every 30 seconds.

I may try to see it once more, to see if it plays better on a second viewing, but I suspect that's being very optimistic.

I give it 2.75 stars or a grade of B- (mainly for the visuals, as the story and characters just didn't quite do it for me).

Didn't have any problem with any of the messages... (I happen to agree with them) and they did provide a reason for why the humans were the way they were.

Anyone notice any Pixar characters/inside jokes? I wasn't actively looking but I realized after it didn't seem like their were many opportunities for that...

does wall-e have any credits? after the movie ended it just showed a pink screen and played a song where i was. then they turned it off half way through and the theater lights came on so i had to leave.

I saw it.

It is about as perfect that a film can get, especially an animated picture. As I was walking out of the theater I heard a ton of people saying they loved it - young children, people my age, and even much older folks. This one was a hit with every age range in my theater, young and old.

10/10

I'm pretty sure Rex was on WALL-E's shelf.

EDIT: Stanton said in an interview that Mike Wazowski's in there, too.

Looks like Brian Orndorf is trying to make a name for himself. Congratulations, Brian. Everybody look at Brian. Wave for everybody, Brian.

Great movie, very funny and sweet. I got an extra personal kick out of:
That cracked me up.

Really loved the score, too, especially the "Define Dancing" segment. I wouldn't mind seeing it again, which (unfortunately) is becoming a rare statement for me this summer. Equally great for kids and adults.

I loved all the Wall-E on earth by himself stuff, but once he blasted off, the movie fell flat The "story" was virtually nothing, and the humans stuff was boring. Ok, we ruined earth...next please. Overall, the move was still very good, but really didn't go anywhere.

Wow, didn't read this post before I posted....

Exactly spot on with my feelings. Wall-E Was the only character to relate to...

Can we leave the Orndorf bashing out of this thread - I don't agree with his review either but everyone is allowed their own opinion. I don't think it's anything more than that....

Someone beat me to it, but yeah I noticed Rex on a shelf in WALL-E's "house." It is right when he first enters and is a VERY quick shot, if you blinked during that time you probably missed it.

A113 was also in this film, as it has been in all of Pixar's previous movies. This time it was Auto's Directive, the order not to return to Earth.

And then the most obvious, John Ratzenberger providing a voice, this time of the human John.

I'm sure there were a few more, but I didn't notice them offhand.

I was hoping for a R2-D2 cameo somewhere since Ben Burt created the voice of WallE like he did with R2.

Yes, throughout the credits, Peter Gabriel's song plays, and we see low-rez versions of many of the robot characters zipping in and around the text.

Did your theater at least show the progressive art display of what happens once everyone gets back?