WALL-E

Fancy Teletubbies with an environmental agitprop message. This really isn’t my cup of tea. (10/01/2009)

Perceiving WALL-E as just a pleasant fairy tale about robots in love is a bit misguided. Pixar has its stuff down to a science. The initial retro atmosphere, the work with film references, Newman's music, the fantastic visuals, and the admittedly primitive, yet incredibly energetic story, which doesn't sell its ecological message and criticism of consumerism as cheaply as it might seem, are proof of clever creative minds that are simply good at what they do, no matter what some of the stodgy scrooges around them think. Pixar films have a heart as big as the world economic crisis and I’m happy to be entertained and moved by them again and again. (10/22/2008)

Cute, visually breathtaking, quite shallow in terms of content and cheaply moralistic, but if you take it as an eco-fairy tale created by playful Pixar children, it cannot disappoint. There are plenty of spikes in the humor, beautiful places and nice music, so it's easy to forgive that it's blinded by a very permeable and shallow story. It is a film for children... maybe overgrown children, but still children. WALL-E works. (08/28/2008)

No. 5 is alive! And he still is, while his rust-bucket descendant, Wall-E, loses his life in the first half of this movie. This brutal murder was committed by the guys at Pixar because they were unable to come up with a sturdy storyline. Or that’s how I imagined things were after reading the reviews before watching. And fundamentally they are right. However, I didn’t mind at all, because those peepers with their constantly focusing lenses soon had me completely in their power. Too bad that the gala performance by the nicest animated character for the past several seasons is spoiled by the cursed human race. Paradoxically, Pixar gave the machines a soul, but not to people (I know that this was partially the intention, but still...). Inorganic beings in this movie are overflowing with feeling and spontaneity, while all organic forms are infuriating and deserve total eradication. Along with green activists. However, everywhere where the robots come out on top, a full set of stars isn’t enough, and, conversely, I would barely award three stars for the places where people make an appearance. Lucky that we see much more of robots in this movie. (08/14/2008)

Ideally cool. Maybe it's not a ride from start to finish and definitely not a reliable emotional roller coaster like immortal Nemo. This time it's something completely different. While children, just like before, will say that it was a really cool ride and they will want the main duo to go home in any version, parents this time don't just stay as smiling spectators, but they comment on their experience with remarks like "This is how it will end anyway" and in their thoughts, they go all the way to R.U.R. And I quietly laugh to myself and say that it really was ideally cool. (08/25/2008)

I have to admit that the beginning was literally torture for me... so boring! But then we were transported aboard a ship with overweight... well, fat people. And that's where the movie kind of started for me. I most enjoyed sitting with the captain and his amazement. "What's a ball? What's a dance?" plus his first steps and the music.... this was just divine! :-) The ending is clear, Wall-E and the tough Eve end up together... "Children, you will grow plants of all kinds... pizza plants!" XoD this ending wasn't bad :-) (12/21/2008)

Writing about how Pixar is at the forefront of technological development in contemporary animation and that films from its workshop are an experience from this perspective would be like carrying firewood into the forest. From Pixar, a spectacle is simply expected, and in this regard, its latest film did not disappoint. While Ratatouille had a few scenes that approached live-action films, there were significantly more here, and Pixar shows how an animated film can replace a live-action film in every way. The scenes of the dead planet were both captivating and chilling. As for the story, the film can essentially be divided into two parts. The part set on Earth is much more accommodating to adult viewers and plays out a story that seems to have emerged from Philip K. Dick's unsettling visions. It is a post-apocalyptic vision of a devastated planet full of ruins, dusty storms, and remnants of a once-functional world. Little robot WALL-E represents a small island of cybernetic life, and even though in this part of the film, he has no opponent other than nature, the viewer is never bored, and the necessary dose of sentiment is bearable. The film's creators likely wanted to try something new, and an atmosphere like the one they were able to create in the first half of the film had not yet been seen in a mainstream family film. It's not that the creative team ran out of steam afterward, but rather the safety brake was applied, with the knowledge of how Jan Pinkava's innovative approach with Ratatouille turned out, in the second half of the film, they diligently catered to the ideas of the Disney studio on how a classic children's spectacle should look. To be frank, there is something to it because I saw WALL-E in the movie theater with my six-year-old son, who was somewhat restless in the first half but smiled happily and enjoyed the film in the second half. The rest of the film set in the distant universe is a bet on traditional certainties of a feature-length family spectacle focused on young viewers. The story is not bad and is entirely engaging, but it is done in an exceedingly banal manner. Compared to Ratatouille, it is a step back in terms of the content of the film. Disney Studios certainly did not invest sinful amounts of money in the acquisition of Pixar to increase prestige by making top-notch films that experiment with form and content, but rather to fill their coffers. Throughout Walt Disney Studios' existence, its owners have a perfectly ingrained idea of what a children's animated film should be, and it is naive to think that Pixar would rebel against this model. Overall impression: 80%. It is still a very decent spectacle that will please children and not offend adults. I just humbly believe that if the creators had the courage to fully develop the darker elements of the story, it would have been a disproportionately better film... (08/22/2008)

Great science fiction, excellent comedy, and probably the best animated family movie you’ll see this year. As is usual with most Pixar movies, WALL-E will grab you at the beginning and hold you until the end and, in the meantime, it will guide you through an incredibly sophisticated universe where each component has its place. Children will be thrilled, adults will be astonished by the incredible scenery (abandoned New York from I Am Legend gets nowhere near this) and those in between, maybe both. (09/05/2008)

I was thinking about how it is possible to make an animated film where there is little dialogue and make it a truly great thing, both in terms of the story and the fact that it will entertain and make the audience laugh. And it does. It entertains both children and adults. One of the most original animated films of recent times. A movie that kids will love, a movie that is meaningful for adults as well. There are interesting and memorable characters and ideas here, which is important for an excellent animated film. And on top of that, it is absolutely excellent sci-fi. (12/23/2013)