There are now 5 rotten reviews... and one of them came from a "Top Critic!" (the dude at Salon.com).

I'll be seeing it with the whole famn damily today or Monday.

There was a quick shot of a destroyed Pizza Planet truck for a split second when Eve first comes to Earth.

Yes... and you have to stay until the absolute end to see the very last gag in the movie.

? like i said, the movie ended and a pink screen comes up playing a song and no picture. just a pink screen. before the song is even over all the theater lights come on and people come in and start sweeping. the curtains also close.

my theater is retarded.

Just saw it and it was wonderful. However much of a cynic, pessimist or however one may describe me, I am, that never once came into play while watching this movie. I was enchanted.

For me the minor issues I had never involved any politics or messages of the film. Because it's really a kid's film however much we adults enjoy it too. Why not watch as a kid does? Is sending a message to kids that greed and sloth is bad wrong? Leave the real world outside the theater for 115 minutes.

The short at the beginning was awesome. The kids and adults in the theater weren't being awful. The whole experience was great. I'm still smiling.

To me, this felt like the worlds most expensive public service announcement and that's not a good thing. I didn't hate it but the heavy-handedness of the messages it was pushing far outweighed any entertainment value. I tried to enjoy what was up there but I just felt this unneeded weight was dragging the picture. There's a time and place for such messages but this wasn't it. Had it been more subtle it wouldn't have really been a problem but that wasn't the case.

In the end, the story was disjointed and predictable and there were no characters with the exception of Wall-E. On the other hand, the short film was excellent and up to the Pixar standard.

It was good, but could have been better in the plot department. The animation is absolutely brilliant. Just when you think Pixar can't do animation any better, they do.
Except for the animated humans everything looked very VERY close to real. All the robots and machines were creative and interesting. WALL-E (the robot itself) was very cute. I teared up a couple of times especially at the end when EVE

Now the negatives. Plot was a bit too simplistic. Not having the main characters (or many characters at all) able to talk left most of the humor to be of the slapstick variety. I like some slapstick and physical gags, but it gets old when there isn't much wit and smart humor. The real humans in the film were just distracting.

Lastly, in my opinion it was not preachy or heavy handed AT ALL (and I'm usually sensitive to such things).

Overall I can't decide if I'd give it an 8 or 9 out of 10.

The animation was amazing but unfortunately I feel as though that was the only amazing thing in this film. Pixar has finally hit a road bump. The writing was far too simple and the message about humanity and our environment was heavy-handed and cynical in a way it didn't need to be. By the end of the film I was left wondering: now that we have allowed our stupid selves to turn to mush without brains how can we possible evolve again to salvage our planet? If it is even possible, I suspect it would take millions of years for something truly great to be created again. It was depressing.

Also, am I alone in feeling that the use of real actors in the film was distracting and a poor decision on the director's part? After all, once humans were portrayed in space, we were fully animated beings. It took me out of the film. Where was the magic in this?

I happen to agree with his review and so do others. People are entitled to their opinions and I very much doubt that every audience member is going to like, let alone love, Wall-E.

As far as I am concerned, Wall-E was a big dissapointment. I was even bored during much of the picture.

The visuals aside, and perhaps some of the film's early build-up, this film ranks no more than a B- to me. It might even rank lower than that. Compared to the A+ review I would easily give to Ratatouille (my favorite Pixar film) Wall-E is a huge disappointment. It's thin plot, poor pacing, and perhaps unintentional cynical message (despite the clear importance of what it was aiming for: save our planet), all of these elements, and more, just about ruined the overall experience from being anything better. I never felt a bit of magic from this film which is a real shame.

Caught a late show and enjoyed it quite a bit. It wasn't as funny as other Pixar films, let alone Kung Fu Panda, but definitely the cutest and most adorable. The lesson on consumption didn't really bother me, as I was pretty much focused on the characters and the amazing work and emotion put into each one. Yeah it might have been a bit preachy, but honestly I don't think it's that different from most movies aimed at children with the typical good overcomes evil or friendship, family, or self enlightenment type of thing. And you see human's coming back to do good on Earth.

Aside from Wall-E and EVE, I loved the little robot MO as well and was genuinely touched by Wall-E and EVE's relationship. It was a little slow at some points, and maybe less of a risk then I thought the movie was going to be, but I still enjoyed it and probably ranks for me in the upper half of Pixar movies behind Incredibles, Ratatouille and Toy Story 2.

Presto was fantastic as well, and I loved the cute little bunny

Was it just the theater I went to, or was there no trailer for the next Pixar film. I don't remember the last time they didn't have a teaser before the feature film.

BTW, I thought the movie was great.

Nope, there was no trailer for the new Pixar film before Wall-E. I read somewhere that they were delaying the preview. I imagine it will likely end up on Bolt since Pixar is going 3-D from here on out so they will want the trailer to be in 3-D attachted to a 3-D movie.

I'm sorry, while I agree everyone can have an opinion, at 96% fresh, his review strikes me like that Ellen Degeneres and Anne Heche bit on the Simpsons...."Look at us, we're Alternative!" Seems to me he's just trying to be noticed.

Hubby & I went to the midnight showing Thursday night thinking for sure nobody would be stupid enough to keep their kids out past 2 AM (since the movie would end about 2, plus time driving home with the kids, putting them to bed, etc... )

We were WRONG ! Parents were bringing in sleeping children in their arms during the previews & waking them up when the movie started. No joke. I have to say atleast the kids were well behaved. Probably too tired to muster a giggle. In this instance I felt really sorry for the kids, and angry at stupid parents. Those poor kids were visibly tired, some of them nodding off during the movie, definitely not having the best time. Poor kids.

I think this was my favorite Pixar film, maybe tied with the Incredibles.

My least favorite Pixar films were Monsters Inc, and a Bugs Life.

I certainly wasn't trying to be "alternative" and "noticed" when I told my cousins who I took to see this that I didn't really care for it. I felt bad saying that as we are all huge Pixar fans. I hadn't read a single review about this movie before I saw it and I didn't know the Tomato-meter rating. This was my reaction based on the movie I saw. This was Brian's reaction also.

Actually, Ellen and Anne said "Look at us, we're lesbians!".

I think they just waved and said "We're lesbians!".

Loved it! I can see reviewers possibly having issues with it..but my take is that anyone having issues with the humans in it and the commercialism...really has issues with their own lives. I personally think society in its own way is heading that way.

The animation is simply amazing. I had to think to myself every few minutes that "Hey..remember you're watching an animated movie". Amazing. Not sure what else to say.

The story was very very good. I did feel it felt rushed toward the end but overall I was in no way disappointed and can't wait to see it again and buy the dvd.

The emotion displayed through the animation reminded me of V for Vendetta in that the emotion had to be brought out by facial movements, etc.

9/10 for me.

And I will give Orndorf his due...I can understand why he felt that way...I just in no way agree with it.

The idea that slapstick humour isn't as intellectual as other types needs to stop. It's hard to do, and even harder to do perfectly. It requires a lot of skill and there can be a lot thought put into to the physicality of it, especially in an animated film were they have to see the same sequence every day for many many years. It's very easy to doubt oneself in that environment.

It was a solid B+ for me. But that said, it's probably my favorite Pixar movie sicne Finding Nemo. The story just lost some steam once Wall-E went into space - but it's hard to be critical about a film that only the most cynical would find offensive.

The best bits are the non-dialogue ones on Earth...things got probably a little too uncecessarily hectic later on in the movie.

Summer 2008 is turning into one of the better summers we've had in quite some time in terms of the quality of movies. Usually, I can only think of one or two movies I really liked, but this year (so far) we have:

Wall-E
Iron Man
Get Smart
The Incredible Hulk

Plus (although to a lesser degree) Indy IV and Prince Caspian

Not bad, so far...with Dark Knight yet to come!

Well, the Moonie Times didn't seem to like it either.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008...-brilliance-c/

Guess this goofy review will have to hold us over till CAPalert gets their review up.

Humans ruin Earth, humans turn into fat, lazy chair potatoes (and even have their acquired characteristics - loss of skeletal material - apparently inherited; thank you Dr. Lysenko), yada-yada-yada.

Did anyone else wonder why if
I know I shouldn't expect a lot of logic in an animated kids film but this one went way too far in its dumbness. But it supports the "humans are the planet destroying monsters" view so fashionable today.

It was also, I think, by far Pixar's least charming film and I would personally agree with the critic who called it Pixar's first failure.

**/****

That's what I meant. Sorry. Wanted to delete the "Look at us" part. I've seen that episode a million times.