Just saw WALL-E..........?

Love Pixar, but,,,,,, 1. Story line was long, looong, looooooooooong. 2. Beginning was boooooring, depressing, and really set me up for wishing I had a pillow. 3. Beginning was the only part with challenging animation. 4. Middle was a vastly negative testimonial on technology replacing human fitness. 5. Middle and ending had decent but low detail animation, worse than Saturday morning cartoon stuff. 6. Ending was appropriately negative slam on humans spoiling environment. 7. Overall the movie was 15/16ths boring and depressing with about 3 minutes of hope at the end. 8. The writer disguised this negativism behind a cutsie crush between a couple of robots. This humanizing rotors was kinda weird, seeing 7/8ths of the movie was a vastly negative testimonial on technology replacing human activity and thought.

My five year old and I loved it. The robot was funny and cute. the love story was sweet. plus, i'm crazy about any movie that has "last man (or robot) on earth" as it's subtext. Pixar was overdue for a kids sci-fi movie. They kept it a kids movie; didn't get bogged down in the depressing tone adult sci-fi movies usually have or in a lot of excessive technical stuff.

Frankly, I think adults are getting a little spoiled by all the kids movies with adult jokes in them. It's getting so bad, I can't tell on some movies if they're aimed for kids or adults. (i.e. Igor) WallE doesn't distract adults with a lot of wink-wink nod-nod jokes they kids won't get. That doesn't mean its a bad movies for young kids.

I didn't think the message was as offensively done as a lot of hollywood movies. usually, the makers aren't content with putting in a message; they have to make sure you know how much they hate opposing viewpoints and must express their contempt for everyone who doesn't agree with them. WallE didn't hate the obese people; it sympathized that the fix was easy to get into. (ask your local doctor how many people are demanding those hovercraft chairs. people that would be better off getting the exercise of walking around.) Plus, the movie gave them credit for having the strength to overcome their situation.

I have to agree with you. It seems like the critics are all for the "we're destroying the planet" messages.

I just found it amazingly funny, as well as having a good story. Matter of opinion I guess.