Blogcritics Comments on Movie Review: WALL·E

Comment by Ross Miller on Movie Review: WALL�E

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:44:37 EDT

@Al Barger, wow. First off it's good to see someone as enthusiastic and passionate about films as you seem to be, whether it's positive OR negative. Like anything in film it's all subjective - you may have found that Wall E beat you over the head with the message and were unable to see past that but I wasn't. I SAW that they were portraying the message but didn't feel like it took spotlight over anything else (quite the opposite actually). @Peter, well the Pixr film I find most overrated (and I haven't seen them all, well not Finding Nemo and Cars) is The Incredibles. To me that went against what I love about them as filmmakers - usually they make films about inanimate objects or fantasized creatures interacting ie. toys, fish, cars, monsters etc but with The Incredibles it was about humans and it just didn't sit with me right. I also find Monsters Inc and Rataouille to be overrated, the former because it seems to rest on the cute factor a litle too much (especially with the little girl character) and the latter because although I really, really liked it I just don't see why it's SO amazing. WALL - E is the first Pixar film (like I said) since Toy Story where I was in complete AWE.

Comment by Peter on Movie Review: WALL�E

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:37:12 EDT

You said that "as narratives I find a few of them overrated". Can you specify which ones are overrated and why? I too think that some Pixar films are somewhat weak as narratives.

Comment by Al Barger on Movie Review: WALL�E

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:42:21 EDT

To a substantial extent, this WALL-E movie sucks ass. It's ugly to look at. The Earth is an ugly trash dump, nothing more. You could probably study it frame by frame and find lots of careful details - of ugly trashiness. It is SO not a great classic of animation that people will want to watch again and again. YUCK. Brother Miller seems to have watched a different movie than me to be able to say that WALL-E does not hit you over the head with the environmental message. I'm not sure how they could possibly have hit viewers any harder than they did with this apocalyptic nonsense. Nonetheless, it might well get an Oscar for Best Picture - but that would absolutely be as a cheap political statement, because the Hollywood wingnuts approve of the environmental hysteria. It will certainly NOT be because of beautiful animation. Expensive and detailed, but not particularly imaginative - and certainly not beautiful or delightful to the eyes. Nor, of course, will it be for the dialogue. The robots were predictably cute and lovable, but pretty much everything else about this movie is unappetizing and worse.