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I guess I get to be the party pooper. I thought Wall*E was very imaginative, visually impressive and had a wonderful premise.
Unfortunately, it then turned into a preachy mess of a story with sub par animation compared to the ruined beauty of the first half hour. Two hours of watching him move around garbage, watching his movies and enjoying his knick-knacks would've been infinitely better in my opinion than all the crap that actually followed. The attention to detail was amazing. The scenery was amazing. I was getting Chaplain and Fallout and The Dark Tower in lovely doses all at the same time.
And then things started happening, and that was pretty much the end of anything interesting and the beginning of being smashed in the face repeatedly with logical inconsistencies and preaching. The second half of the movie was dripping with smug, pretentious drivel. It wasn't cute; it wasn't fun; it wasn't interesting. The movie theater I was in was full of restless kids asking their parents if they could go home yet.
Far be it for me to not appreciate the message and allusions to 2001, but the "people" of the future were hyperbolic to the point of insipid and engaged in pathetic attempts at emotion. The two "saved" people gasping over Wall*E while he's being crushed by the machine? I'm sorry, but no. Just no. Why would they care about a random robot they've seen once before? Why would the events make any sense to them? The freaking captain had NO idea what "earth" meant. Why would any of those other people? Am I really supposed to believe that no one in the entire ship ever did anything but sit in a chair chatting on videophone while being mass consumers?
I mean, yes, I apparently am supposed to believe all of those things, and they're supposed to tug at my little heartstrings and make me fall in love with a robot and want to change the world. Instead, it only made me wonder why such a beautiful picture had to be ruined.
As a final parting note, fuck your mac boot up noise and iPod, Steve Jobs. Keep it in your hipster commercials and keep it out of your company's movies.
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