WALL-E Reviews

[Highly rated reviewer]

Directive Completed - Mission Successful!

Let's get it out of the way then: Wall-E is absolutely wonderful. Forget the 'Short Circuit' and 'ET' referencing. Go and watch this film and see it for what it is: something unique.

So Wall-E has finally arrived, after much hype and after having been in the Pixar pipeline since they first set out on their animation adventures. Always sceptical of 'the next big thing', I was surprised to find myself quite willingly swept up (ahem...) by this unconventionally cute waste disposal robot's tidal preliminaries.

And this is where Pixar get there first lot of brownie points from me. In Wall-E they have created this adorable character, yet the film does by no means rely on 'cute' or 'giggle' factor. Do not get me wrong, there are laughs, chuckles, sighs, sniggers, and aww's galore. This, however, is in my opinion the least 'kiddy' movie Pixar have yet produced.

The opening scenes are awe inspiring and set the tone. Earth is totally mounted in waste, desolate and abandoned- a Dystopia. Sweeping glides over an American futuristic city show only piles and piles of garbage, in places cubed and stacked up by the only moving thing in sight: Wall-E. Look closer and you get to meet his little sidekick, a cockroach that follows Wall-E around and lives with him. Yes, it is adorable, watching a robot pile up tons of our left over rubbish (human kind has long since escaped the planet), but taking the time to collect a few souvenirs (Rubik's cube, plastic spoons, video tapes of old fashioned musical movies). But with Wall-E switching on in the mornings, grumpy and sleepy before he goes to work, he is so very human like and yet not- down to the fact that he appreciates the 'little things' and is a true romantic.

Enter Eve, the 'female' Robot sent to Earth on a 'secrete directive'- and Wall-E's love object to be.

What follows is a blend of an estranged love story and rescue mission, any further details might spoil the story, so I will behave.

The ingredients that will make Wall-E superior to other Pixar movies (and indeed films in general) are the absence of dialogue for a major part of the film. Clicks, whirls, electronic words maybe, but no snappy one-liners to keep you on board. Just a visual fest and details that are masterful and a characterisation of Wall-E and Eve that is so touching in places, it will melt even the biggest cynic.

When the humans do enter, they are all but props- and just another reminder of the question: Is this what you want your future to be like?

Wall-E is a masterpiece and deserves all the credit it will get.

SEE THIS IF YOU LIKED

* Toy Story

* 2001 A Space Odyssee

* Finding Nemo

Numbs mind & bum in equal measure

Boring, preachy, over hyped, over long, dull, irritating, dreary.

How long are you prepared to watch one tin can gaze meaningfully into the eyes of another tin can?

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the trailer to wall.e was really good but could be better by making it different to other cartoon film's . Evening so i can't wait to watch wall.e

Another Classic !

WALL-E is the latest movie from the geniuses that are Disney Pixar. Unsuprisingly, once again the animation on this film is truly spectacular, possibly surpassing anything produced before. As usual these clever fellows have produced, in WALL-E, another masterpiece that captures the attention of young and old with many different layers of social commentary and entertainment. It really is a movie for the toddlers and there Grannies. No change there.

What I did find surprising from the film though was the gloomy, melancholy tone to the start of WALL-E. Yes, the subject matter is deeply concerning, but there was a deffinate break from the norm when deciding to open the film in such a cheerless manner. Something I never expected from a Disney creation. Certainly nothing like the other DP films. Perhaps the unexpectedness of the opening minutes does really help to drive home the importance of the situation.

Don't let me put you off with the talk of gloomyness though as the film is almost immediately lifted by the instantly loveable main charachter ( even if he does bare a remarkable resemblelance to E.T. ) and the usual clever humour that we have come to expect from DP. The film makers subtly remind us of our shortcomings whilst praising our most admorable human qualities via WALL-E.

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Fell asleep

Strange idea, excellent graphics, bit of a thin story and I fell asleep ie not one of the alltime greats which most of the ratings would have you believe. My 8 year old son thought it was really a great movie and that is it (his words).

[Highly rated reviewer]

Wall - e

I LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A FEEL GOOD FILM WITH A MESSAGE

[Highly rated reviewer]

Quite dissappointing

After classics like Toy Story, Kung Fu Panda and Monsters Inc. I was completely let down by this movie. Especially after all the hype building it up to be something spectacular. It was boring. The only great parts of the movie are with the humans. Now they were great!

Big Dissapointment

Quality animation as you would expect from Pixar but really dissapointed with the film itself,I couldnt get involved with either of the main characters because you felt no emotion for them,I know it must be difficult to get robots to show or express emotion as you only really have their eyes and voice to work with,but for me it failed with both characters,the film itself is not really that funny either...shame,I was looking forward to it,its not a patch on Toy Story,Nemo ,Incredibles etc

Very disappointing and a wasted opportunity.

This film gets two stars only for the CGI. Beyond that, I am hard pressed to find any redeeming qualities. It drolled on forever, focusing on Wall-E cleaning up the trash left behind on a toxic Earth. A new generation robot comes to Earth, he falls in love with her and then follows her out into space. Pointless. The film did start to pick up towards with end with some semblance of a plot, but too little, too late and not enough to deserve higher rating. Purely for the kids and immature minds.

[Highly rated reviewer]

A Pointless Tale

I watched Wall-E with my children and asked them what they thought of this film. Whilst they enjoyed the visual effects and animation, they were both very unsure of the point of the story. As another reviewer has put it, two tin cans falling in love. We watched it a second time and they still didn't really see the point of this film, liked it a bit more because they saw things that they missed in the first viewing. So they will forget it pretty quickly and it will be consigned to the 'seen it but don't want to see it again' pile. The irritation for me was that they had looked forward to viewing this film, and were disappointed.

I deliberately didn't air my views before giving my children their chance to rate it, because it actually made me quite angry. Once again Walt Disney churn out meaningless pap and look to achieve success through the visual impact. In order to be rewarded for selecting their films, I want to be involved in a story - give the Americans their mindless pulp, but save us Brits from any more of this dross. The film plays on corporate America's self-satisfying sentiment that they will be the saviours of the planet. The trouble I have with all that is that they are too ignorant and blind to see the problem they are creating in the first place. They wrap the idea in a conceited love story involving inanimate machines that develop personalities so irritating that I would rather see the movie makers being bold enough to allow them to expire gracefully. What the film does in huge measure is unashamedly plagiarise many better films and mince them into a combination that falls far short of its potential: One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, 2001: A Space Odyssey, ET, Short Cicuit, Batteries Not Included et al. It is most definately NOT an original movie, as another reviewer has suggested, as you simply cannot ignore the similarities of the characters in this to other films (Wall-E sounds like ET and looks like the main character in Short Circuit). You also cannot ignore the flimsy story line. What angers me about this is that most kids won't even be aware of those references so Disney/Pixar get away with it.

Does the film have any redeeming features? Well, if you like grand scale scenery of our planet in a desolate state, or pristine space ships full of obese people then there's your ticket. For me, the film makers are getting far too lazy with their plots and not spending enough time writing good stories, so will not get my vote. My disappointment is that too many of us as viewers are prepared to accept this and allow them to continue.