this one I just didn't " get " what was so great about it . they acted like it was the cutest thing since
sliced bread , it just didn't hold my interest .

Waaaallllllllllleeeeeeeeee - zoom 30 minutes in and this becomes a roller coaster adventure with quick wit and slapstick humor.

MY FAV!!!!

too good , should watch before you die.

I LOVED THIS MOVIE. There wasn't much talking but it was really cute.

For the first 20 minutes, there is no dialogue. . .you're watching a silent film with a Chaplin-esque character who communicates by visual cues and physical movement. And the results are quite magical.

The film won a deserved Oscar for sound effects - and it looks and sounds wonderful. And the message of getting off your fat ass and not following billboards to support some giant chain that gives you everything from toothpaste to nuclear power is indeed solid advice.

I didn't think this film would impress me as much as others predicted- but I was sold. Buy N Large indeed. . .

I had finally arrived at the stage where I didn't have to go to these movies anymore. My kids have reached the age where I coulld drop them off at the multiplex and I could go to the hardware store, used record store and stop off at the Cambridge Hotel coffee shop where the waitresses still wear uniforms and serve coffee in those really thick heavy old mugs. Then I'd go pick the kids up. I was FREE! The kids enjoyed this one so much that they dragged me out to it and made sit through it. I didn't want to but they can be persuasive when the full court press is on. Damn it if I didn't really enjoy it in spite of myself.

Verryyy good movie. As said before its very cute for what it is and made me smile a lot more than I ever thought I would have for the type of movie it was. The game that goes with this movie is hard as hell though! i don't know how any child could beat it!!! lol

What struck me while watching Wall-E was that it was beautiful to look at, but borig to watch. I found the underlying political message about global warming and human self destruction to be distracting, preachy and just annoying. There were definitely some great parts but honestly, it would be better with no sound. Especially since that God Awful Hello, Dolly! song plays recurrently throughout the entire movie. Yuck.

I don't really watch Disney films regularly, but one of my friends told me that this was a very interesting, deep film and that I should watch it. Found it playing on Showtime the other day and I took her up on her offer! The movie is really a very smart critique of social postmodernism and corporatism. It tries to highlight the fate of mankind under a purely consumerist technopoly (a state based on technology). It is the story of a technological dystopia (the opposite of a utopia)

Of course, there are the standard saccharine Disney plotlines with the robot that was sent to Earth to clean it up for human habitation after years of consumerism trashed it, but who falls in love along the way. Ugh!! So sweet I got a cavity from watching! But nevertheless there are some real philosophical themes to be garnered from this movie.

Humanity in this film had to leave Earth because their overconsumption of the planet's resources left it trashed and uninhabitable. Therefore, humanity was forced to live in a spacecraft where all of the man's needs are provided for by a large quasi-governmental Wal-Mart-like corporation. Man becomes completely dependent on the company's provisions on the spacecraft, without so much as lifting a finger. Humanity has become obese and completely dependent on technology. In that respect, this film serves as a critique of technologies role in discouraging face to face communication. People don't walk anymore, they are fed a constant diet of junk food, and they are entertained by the corporation (junk food for the brain!!). The people, strangers to one another, have outsourced the raising of their children to the company run system, which teaches them propaganda that advances the corporation's interests.

The people have become completely infantilized and docile. They have lost all cultural memory of their past existence on Earth and have become perfect consumers for the corporate state. The people are wards of the state, a self-chosen soft tyrrany that the famed observer of American political culture Alexis De Tocqueville called "democratic despotism".

The idea of politics is to order people's collective lives around individual desires. Having lost all their cultural memories of the past, the people have lost touch with what it means to be human. The tragedy of this situation is that the people don't realize the predicament they find themselves in. Technology, which is the film's villain, allowed for the development of Earth's consumer economy, which gave humanity an impulse to indulge without bounds. Technology also allowed humans to escape Earth when the consequences of overconsumption deemed it uninhabitable.

But technology also began to shape human consciousness to the point that it lead them to break with nature and see technology as their deliverance from a life of hard work and struggle. As technology became more sophisticated, people began to divorce themselves from human nature. Culture and society became mechanical and artificial, as opposed to organic and natural. The movie contends that what makes us human is developing a sense of community that works for the broader general good. The iconic image this film was the "Tree of Life" that grows out of an old work-boot. The meaning of this symbol is that humanity can be renewed only through it's hard work and effort, by people taking responsibility for themselves instead of being passive consumers coddled by a corporate welfare state.

The movie is really a full frontal attack on our modern consumerist culture. Modernity really began with the English philosophical tradition, under the 16th Century philosopher Francis Bacon, who believed that the end of politics was the conquest of nature for the benefit of mankind. But the older tradition, starting with Aristotle, contends that man is to grow with nature concurrently. Man is embedded within nature and cannot know anything else outside of its natural laws and logic. Human nature withers without struggle, without companionship of family and friends, and without community--all things which make us uniquely human.

This is one of the more subversive movies I've seen in some time, at least towards the postmodern paradigm we currently live in. Technology, put to the correct uses, can and has advanced mans knowledge to boundaries unknown before. But misapplied, it can create massive social dysfunctions.

Adorable movie!!! My son even agrees, five stars!

WALL-E owes some of its success to the budding romance b/w Mac and Rosie from 'The Jetsons.'

I thought it was a fun movie. Especially in the beginning I was intrigued by the little robot. I also liked the love story with Eve. It got bogged down for me with the idea of the spaceship from Earth going back there. It is something I think kids would think was fun. The cockroach idea had bugged me.

I looooved this film, and not just because I <3 robots. Great, intelligent (postmodern) themes and a brilliant limited use of language for much of the film. Sweet and poignant story, and Wall-e is incredibly cute. His voice was done by the same guy that did R2-D2 and as a result he's rather expressive for a robot.