Wall-E

[Alex]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Much as I love lists, I don't see the need to compare it to other Pixar movies, as if Pixar is a genre. Just like the folks from Pixar will cringe if you call Animation a genre.

The only reason that this board considered Wall-E to be a must-see-event is because the names Pixar and Disney are attached. If the Dreamworks name had been above the title word of mouth may have eventually put every one of our butts in a theater but there'd have been no organized opening weekend group outings. Comparing to other efforts from Pixar (or at least the other Andrew Stanton titles) seems reasonable to me.

Pixar's fillms are a body of work that has been produced from a relatively small, relatively stable group of creative inputs. Comparing within a "genre" is potentially just as silly. Are Dark City and Earth Girls are Easy somehow more appropriate for side by side comparison than Wall-E and Cars simply because they both involve aliens?

But unless Pixar films are the product of one man and his lone art, I see no need to compare Wall-E to Finding Nemo any more than it's appropriate to compare Wall-E to The Love Guru.

Wall-E and Finding Nemo are the product of one man (though obviously with a lot of help). And I'd say Finding Nemo was more fun and Wall-E was more artistic.

But yes, it should be considered fully on its own as well. And on its own I consider the second half to have some significant flaws that are more than outweighed by greatness in other areas.

I'm just sad because I was so hoping that Andrew Stanton would rekindle the awe I felt at the end of last year's Ratatouille. He didn't. He showed me a good time on the level of Cars, I just want to be raving about it like most of you get to. That feeling is something I want and I didn't get it this time.


Comparing within the science fiction genre only hurts Wall-E, in my opinion,because while it was set in a science fiction world, the particulars of the universe created for the core love story were minimally explored and developed. What is good about the movie has nothing (in my view) to do with the science fiction elements.