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WALL-E
It was cute. There's lots of funny stuff, particularly things directly involving the title character. However, I must confess myself disappointed by the overall story. There was stuff in there that I considered to be lazy storytelling - elements that were included to make it easier to tell the story, but which made no sense or required more explanation for me to accept. I've come to expect good animation AND good storytelling from Pixar, and this one just didn't live up to the standards they'd set for the latter. It's fun to watch, but doesn't hold together well for me.
I get that BNL might have wanted to cut corners on their cleanup robots, but there was an enormous tech level difference between WALL-E and the spaceship built to ferry humans away from the Earth. Weren't both of those things designed at the same time?
I assumed from the moment that EVE started scanning that she was looking for evidence of life. When she isn't interested in the bug, I started to wonder if I was wrong. Why do they only care about finding plants? Unless one assumes the local ecosystem is based on twinkies, doesn't the presence of bugs imply the presence of plants?
If humans on the ship never look away from their own personal screens, why are there so many giant advertisements everywhere? For that matter, there's a reference to getting a "free" cupcake, which implies that other goods and services are paid for. If all everyone does is sit around and let robots do everything, how does anyone make any money?
I thought the robots in the repair ward were malfunctioning, not possessed of independent personalities like WALL-E, so it seemd bizarre to me that as soon as they were freed they began to employ their malfunctions to directly help him, implying they had more control over themselves than was first implied.
I guess making the BNL ship recycle garbage would have undermined their portrayal of them as totally destructive to the environment, but surely if the ship generates that much garbage and simply jetisons it away they would have run out of raw materials by now. Where does all of that garbage even come from? All the humans do is sit on chairs watching electronic screens and eat, so it seems like all of the garbage should be food containers. Where does all of that metal trash come from? Robots that broke down and couldn't be repaired? In that case, shouldn't there be an obvious shortage of robots after 700 years, since it was planned as a 5-year mission?
I get that BNL might have wanted to cut corners on their cleanup robots, but there was an enormous tech level difference between WALL-E and the spaceship built to ferry humans away from the Earth. Weren't both of those things designed at the same time?
I assumed from the moment that EVE started scanning that she was looking for evidence of life. When she isn't interested in the bug, I started to wonder if I was wrong. Why do they only care about finding plants? Unless one assumes the local ecosystem is based on twinkies, doesn't the presence of bugs imply the presence of plants?
If humans on the ship never look away from their own personal screens, why are there so many giant advertisements everywhere? For that matter, there's a reference to getting a "free" cupcake, which implies that other goods and services are paid for. If all everyone does is sit around and let robots do everything, how does anyone make any money?
I thought the robots in the repair ward were malfunctioning, not possessed of independent personalities like WALL-E, so it seemd bizarre to me that as soon as they were freed they began to employ their malfunctions to directly help him, implying they had more control over themselves than was first implied.
I guess making the BNL ship recycle garbage would have undermined their portrayal of them as totally destructive to the environment, but surely if the ship generates that much garbage and simply jetisons it away they would have run out of raw materials by now. Where does all of that garbage even come from? All the humans do is sit on chairs watching electronic screens and eat, so it seems like all of the garbage should be food containers. Where does all of that metal trash come from? Robots that broke down and couldn't be repaired? In that case, shouldn't there be an obvious shortage of robots after 700 years, since it was planned as a 5-year mission?