WALL-E

I took my 5 year old boy to see it. He'd been wanting to see it and already had gotten a Wall E t-shirt. (in retrospect - not sure if his wanting to see it was influenced by me) He liked it but thought it was sort of boring...not enough action-hero-wam-bam-beat-em-up stuff.

Anyhow - I LOVED IT! I thought it was done so cleverly without much dialogue (esp. when just the robots interacted with each other or with the audience). The robot-speak between WallE and Eva (which apparently was not the same robot language) reminded me of how I've communicated basic needs or wants to someone who does not speak English and when there is an understanding - it's a EUREKA feeling! I laughed, I almost cried, and enjoyed the message about overconsumption and waste.

I wish I could have a little WALL E. He was so sweet! (Big Awwww!)

Please explain this one.  What don't I know about Pixar movies and Easter eggs?

Saw it on Friday with the whole family. Likewise, I really enjoyed it, though I didn't find any disappointments.

Funy enough, though, this was one that I wasn't thrilled about seeing after the trailers -- I went more out of family obligation than anything else. But I really enjoyed it.

I am a huge fan of Pixar movies and loved this one just as much as I loved every one of the previous movies. They do such an excellent job of outdoing themselves every time.

I have always appreciated the writing they put into their movies most importantly because they don't rely on cultural references to carry the movie. (Imagine what Ratatouille would have been like with a break dancing rat) They tend to instead, invent their own culture in the movies seem to stick true to the idea. Still, the culture that they do create does have some interesting similarities.

One thing they do with every movie is to stretch the boundaries of what is possible with CG animation. In "Monster's Inc.", it was Fur. In "Incredibles", it was realistic looking people as main characters. In this one, the Flame seems to be a big one. (Animating a realistic flame has to be tough and certainly not done well before this)

Definitely one of the best. Heck, if they can get us all to love a rat that cooks, getting us to love a couple of machines would seem to be pretty easy. (But I am sure it was not)

We saw it Sat night and spent the rest of the weekend talking like Wall-e and Eve.  Such a sweet movie. 

I heard a really good review about it on NPR on Friday morning, which is what made me want to see it badly enough to brave the crowds.  Lots of nods to other movie robots, as well as Charlie Chaplin. 

Pixar has a habit of putting references from older movies into newer ones.  For example the PizzaPlanet truck has appeared in all of their movies.  Rex and Hammy fromtoy story are in WALLE as well (on WALLE's wheel-o-junk)

A quick Google search turns up some of the "Easter eggs" in WALLE.  There are others as well like the Apple boot music when WALLE reboots.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/06/27/wall-e-easter-eggs/

If this is the first you are hearing about this then you will want to do a search on the easter eggs and then go back and WATCH every single PIXAR movie.  There are TONS of hidden gems in each of them.  Half the fun is trying to spot the hidden things.

Just found this as well (kind of a backwards easter egg).  Not so sure about some of them.  A little blurry in places..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaNQnJFq-1o

We thought the same thing.

And don't get me wrong.  I liked the movie.  I just thought it was not a good as some of the other Pixar movies. 

That's like saying that the  guy who comes in last in the Olympic 100m is slow.  It's all relative.

 Oh, right, it wasn't an animated movie, it was a social science lecture complete with a slideshow illustrating what we can do to save the planet.

I think the documentaries were being shown at the art theater.

If yer gonna preach or get on a soapbox on something in any form, then offer a solution or shattap.  BTW, ya may wanna note the little ----> ;-p <------- in my post.

Holy cow man - seriously, you don't remember a little film by Al Gore?

Get it now?

My other reply was:

I know.  I was pissed when The Incredibles didn't show us a REAL solution for dealing with Arch Enemies.

(Note the red, and now, italics)

I heard that even though the Gore flick wasn't animated by Disney/Pixar it was not believable. :-)

And The Incredibles did SO show a real solution to dealing wiuth arch enemies.  Beat the snot outta them.  ;-p

I admit I had to Google these names to find out who they are.  Found this where they, and others, rant about wall-e:

http://www.woodka.com/

:-)

Also, since no one else has posted it yet.... Johnny 5 from the 80s flick "Short Circuit" and WALL-E...separated at birth? ;-)

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