Wall-E

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex

I'm feeling kind of sad being a bit on the outside on this one.

The better half was transcendent and the other half almost pedestrian. Still very, very good overall but for me it is at best 3rd among the Pixar movies.

I've got at least one foot out the door with you.

Originally Posted by lspooreyeorick

Sure, the environmental message, the "stand up and make a difference" message, the "we're being lulled into complacency" message - they're all there. But as opposed to some who think that the message is too preachy, I actually buy what Stanton was saying about coming up with those secondarily to support the love story.

This was the point I was kinda trying to make earlier. It was like all those movies where you come out saying, "It was good, but man, they just slapped that love story together to move things along and pander a little," in reverse.

I think what's getting me is that I think the "preachy" side of the movie raised some really good questions, but fell flat on the exploration of those questions. It was just kinda shallow, a lot of it was left dangling, and yeah I'd agree with Alex's "pedestrian".

But I'm also aware that that part of the story suffers an unfair penalty in my mind being paired with the spectacular love story. It's still probably enough for me to not call it my favorite Pixar movie (as it once again gets incrementally more difficult to declare that winner), but I do really really love the movie despite those criticisms.