"Wall-E"

6 Comments

• steve simels says:

  June 28, 2008 at 1:54 pm

  Your review was spot on, I thought.
  Don’t want to give any­thing away, but the visu­al sur­prise plot twist in the first act (you know the one I’m talk­ing about) lit­er­ally took my breath away. Moving and almost pro­found, which is the last thing I expected.

• colinr says:

  June 29, 2008 at 5:02 pm

  This may be the first time it has happened since my fan­boy nerves were tweaked by the first Matrix trail­er but I keep won­der­ing what the film will be like if just watch­ing the trail­ers brings a tear to my eye.
  Of emo­tion, joy or grat­it­ude for a decent film? Who knows (and I might hate the film when I see it, but all signs are look­ing good for enjoyment!)

• Nathan Duke says:

  June 29, 2008 at 10:58 pm

  Very nice review. Plus, I think you deserve some kind of points for, most likely, writ­ing the only review of “Wall‑E” to ref­er­ence “Satantango.”
  I saw the film today and, right now, think it could be my favor­ite of the Pixar films, all of which I have liked to vary­ing degrees.

• Allen Belz says:

  July 1, 2008 at 12:06 am

  Just one tiny rebut­tal to the review: I saw it today and was primed to groan at the Also Sprach Zarathustra ref­er­ence whenev­er it appeared, but being that it was used in 2001 to sig­nal anoth­er leap in human evol­u­tion (not to men­tion the fact that the Autocomputer is an obvi­ous riff on HAL), I’d say it was one of the most apro­pos and affec­tion­ate uses of it ever, and I actu­ally found myself chuck­ling in a very non-ironic manner…

• John Svatek says:

  July 1, 2008 at 12:42 am

  Best review I’ve read so far.
  I was a little dis­ap­poin­ted too–based on the trail­er, I was hop­ing for an American, posta­po­ca­lyptic “Playtime” or at least “Jour de Fête.” (I can hear the pitch: Tati + Silent Running = Boffo Box Office!) Too much to hope for.
  I guess I should­n’t be sur­prised that it was more Chaplin than Tati; although most of the Tramp’s aggress­ive side seems to gave been trans­ferred to Eve. (BTW, WHEN is Pixar going to have a female/girl lead?)
  I was­n’t, how­ever, dis­ap­poin­ted when the humans show up. Fat as short­hand for evil/stupid/lazy is one of my pet peeves, so the fact that they handled it well was a net pos­it­ive. Also, the fact that Wall‑E pur­sues his goal without ref­er­ence to (or even aware­ness of?) the human’s dilemma, I found to quite refreshing.

• Dan says:

  July 1, 2008 at 9:54 am

  I enjoyed “Wall‑E” quite a bit myself. The plot isn’t ori­gin­al but it’s well con­struc­ted, and the satire is clear without being belabored. Also, it’s just so damn funny (I love how trigger-happy Eve is) and well-animated that I fell in love.
  I have to say, though, “Presto” is almost equal in my regard and it might just be my favor­ite Pixar short. The spir­it of Termite Terrace is alive and well and resid­ing, clearly, in Emoryville, CA.