How does Pixar do it?? They get away with absolutely ripping apart the cruise/entertainment industry, mega-monolith companies, and our own slovenly nature - in such a way that is too true for Disney or anyone else to say it goes over the line. They say things that many of the rest of us are too frightened to say about society. Much like the theme in the Incredibles, where they actually say that we aren't ALL special, these are ideas that I am happily surprised to see addressed.

The love story was perfection. The contrasts in technology, fantastic. The ruined earth in the beginning touched me to my very root of guilt and concern.

One thing that I found interesting was that immediately after the movie, GD mentioned Wal-Mart, and I realized that even as I cringed every time BnL's logo came up, it wasn't pushing that particular trigger. I was thinking of media/entertainment conglomerates. The point of BnL to me is that it doesn't matter where it started, because it was everything. It seems that I'm more afraid of them than I am of Wal-Mart. Oh, and Best Buy came to mind as well. ;)

The over-sweet, rather unlikely happy ending was the only flaw I saw - but there was no other way for them to play it. How could the humans just "wake up" by bumping into Wall-E and suddenly want to start working for a living? Yeah, they were stuck.

I keep thinking of all the imagery, and I don't think it'll leave me any time soon. Awesome film.

Oh yeah, and the Main Street song! :D

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I especially loved all the 2001 references - "It's the eye of HAL I squeed to Lisa during the film," Star Trek references (5-year cruise), Star Wars references, etc - it was like someone who grew up with my childhood sci-fi favorites made the film (oh wait, they did). Add to that the WallE start-up sound...

We'll be doing the frame-by-frame walkthrough as soon as it's out on DVD

I really liked it. But I could have done without most of the plot. Not that it was bad, but for me, the love story between the two of them FAR outshined the story of the ship and the humans getting back to Earth. It was entertaining filler, but kinda thin and I just wanted to get back to the silence and the love story. Really artfully and brilliantly done, loved it loved it loved it.

Speaking of Star Trek, the ship docking scene totally triggered Trek in my mind. Two other references we noticed were when the roach first came out of the can, the can made the Pixar lamp noise. And of course there was a song from Main Street in there (CP caught it, not I).

Overall, despite the weak (weak only in comparison to the far superior rest of the movie) filler plot I thoroughly liked this movie. Damn they're good.

Tron, 2001, Star Wars & Mac references all made me smile. I sooooo want to go frame by frame to see what Wall-E had collected in his "home". Looked for the pizza truck but didn't see it (but I have a few places I suspect it appears. Chris thinks he saw a Wally Shawn Toy Story guy in there. The music was just fabulous and quite unexpected.

I think the most surprising and wonderful thing about the film is that there is almost no dialog, yet there is no problem understanding emotions and plot movements.