WALL-E
WALL-E
August 25 (?) 2009, DVD, home living room, rented from Movie Madness
I finally snapped and said "I need to watch this shit already", and since I was at the Madness, I snagged it, even though it was still a new release. Whatever; I hated being three Pixar films behind (now only 2, and I'm just not going to break my neck trying to see CARS, even though I may very well like it). I love me some Pixar. And WALL-E was pretty damn well universally beloved (although so_pseudogoth made sure to tell me that she didn't care for it).
I loved it, though.
However, I really haven't got all that much to say about it. It is what it is - a beautiful, sweet without being sappy, heart-wrenchingly lovely love story, with heavy overtones of Harold Lloyd and Chaplin (which so totally works for me), an impossibly charming lead character, and much less of a harsh environmental message than I'd been anticipating. After IDIOCRACY, WALL-E's post-human landscape is a stroll through a sunlit meadow. The hilariously atrophied obese future humans were great, though - extremely sweet-natured and generous, which kind of strains credulity a little... but who wouldn't love Wall-E? I mean, seriously? Credulity is further strained when the intrepid captain of the humans' interstellar vessel has to get up and, er, walk for his life; I know it's just a cartoon, but it simply would have been physically impossible for him to do so. Yeah, I know, uplifting positive message etc etc. But really.
But even with all that, WALL-E is just such a sweet, darling, shiny, pretty movie full of love and romance. And it has the requisite busy-busy industrial mechanized eye candy sequence that Pixar (and acidheads) really get into. The one in MONSTERS, INC. was better, but only because it was newer. And I was probably way more stoned when I saw it.
August 25 (?) 2009, DVD, home living room, rented from Movie Madness
I finally snapped and said "I need to watch this shit already", and since I was at the Madness, I snagged it, even though it was still a new release. Whatever; I hated being three Pixar films behind (now only 2, and I'm just not going to break my neck trying to see CARS, even though I may very well like it). I love me some Pixar. And WALL-E was pretty damn well universally beloved (although so_pseudogoth made sure to tell me that she didn't care for it).
I loved it, though.
However, I really haven't got all that much to say about it. It is what it is - a beautiful, sweet without being sappy, heart-wrenchingly lovely love story, with heavy overtones of Harold Lloyd and Chaplin (which so totally works for me), an impossibly charming lead character, and much less of a harsh environmental message than I'd been anticipating. After IDIOCRACY, WALL-E's post-human landscape is a stroll through a sunlit meadow. The hilariously atrophied obese future humans were great, though - extremely sweet-natured and generous, which kind of strains credulity a little... but who wouldn't love Wall-E? I mean, seriously? Credulity is further strained when the intrepid captain of the humans' interstellar vessel has to get up and, er, walk for his life; I know it's just a cartoon, but it simply would have been physically impossible for him to do so. Yeah, I know, uplifting positive message etc etc. But really.
But even with all that, WALL-E is just such a sweet, darling, shiny, pretty movie full of love and romance. And it has the requisite busy-busy industrial mechanized eye candy sequence that Pixar (and acidheads) really get into. The one in MONSTERS, INC. was better, but only because it was newer. And I was probably way more stoned when I saw it.