Comments on: 4 Things I Hate About WALL-E

By: Olivia

Olivia — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:34:55 +0000

I was so so so so so looking forward to watching this movie, and when I saw it, to say I was disappointed with it was an understatement.

I just…I love Pixar so much, but I did not, at all, feel like it was the “masterpiece” everyone was making it out to be. I didn’t feel like I had any risk with the characters. At all. I didn’t feel as captivated or as pulled in or as emotionally connected as I was with Finding Nemo (which remains one of my all-time favorites) or with Toy Story or with Monsters Inc. I felt I had no characters to really really REALLY connect with. It just didn’t work.

Also, I missed the dialogue, the references, the beautiful WIT that drives so much of Pixar’s work, what I most admire them for. I thought this story was cliche, to say the least. Predictable. Not saying that Pixar’s other movies weren’t predictable, but I just felt I had seen THIS particular story soooo many times before, that I wasn’t surprised. I want to go to a movie and be in awe. And despite all the CGI, the detail, etc etc…I wasn’t awestruck. For the first time ever at a Pixar movie.

By: jimi hoffa

jimi hoffa — Wed, 19 May 2010 23:40:55 +0000

What I enjoyed about previous Pixar films (most notably Toy Story) was the witty dialague. Sadly, there was little dialague, witty or otherwise, to be found in this film.

By: Mick

Mick — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:37:40 +0000

Back to my earliar rant, its strange that excellent cel animation films (1999′s THE IRON GIANT, for example) go more or less unnoticed, while this gains all the attention. (Stop motion deserves the most respect of all, in my mind-it takes so much hard work and effort to produce just a few seconds of film.) Kudos to directors like Tim Burton and Henry Selik for keeping the stop motion tradition alive.

By: Mick

Mick — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:34:12 +0000

I was also underwhelmed by this film although I enjoyed all the previous PIXAR efforts. Frankly, film didn’t have much of a story. Also, there is very little dialague or character development, so we never really care about the film. Yes, the CGI looks realilistic, but it doesn’t have the ”soul” of stop-motion or cel animation. But back to this film, suffice it to say it lacked the wit, poignancy and charm of the early PIXAR works such as TOY STORY.

By: Carolina

Carolina — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:15:25 +0000

Finally, somebody is willing to say the king has no clothes! Thank you for being brave enough to go against the grain and say what this movie was . . .CRAPPY! Boring, stupid, contrived . . . and this was from the people who made Toy Story?!!! That was a great movie. For all the money they are given you’d think they’d come up with something that didn’t leave us bored, and looking at our watch . . . and besides, that who’s brilliant idea was it to include a cockroach? Geez, at least make it a cricket, not a COCKROACK!!

By: marktreas

marktreas — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:19:41 +0000

1 Think I like About Wall-E:
Paying 8 dollars to watch a Apple Commercial…what a rip off

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:15:13 +0000

yeah, a couple of you have responded with it being boring. That would be my 5th thing that I hated.

By: gabe

gabe — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:52:06 +0000

we ended up watching the non-speaking parts in fast-forward and that helped a bit, but not much…

By: gabe

gabe — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:51:30 +0000

wow, i just watched it and was so incredibly bored!

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:12:48 +0000

tarzanchuck,
i loved the other pixar films. that’s why i was so weirded out by this one. rats, monsters, toys, bugs i connected with them all more than robots. you know, in reading your comment i’m starting to realize that i think it may be the story that i had no ability to connect with. even when i think back about the story there was no part of it that i really connect with. i’m interested to hear others thoughts but here are mine as far as that’s concerned:
1. the relationship between the 2 was not enought for me to care about. wall-e was alone and wanted a companion. was there another case made?
2. the whole plot and conflict revolved around getting back to earth. why? at least in the movie the only real case that is made is that it was a place where people used to dance and there was some cool scenery. now, i have some reason why i think earth is pretty cool but i didn’t feel this while watching the movie.
3. most people i know would prefer to float around in chairs and watch tv. in the movie, it seemed they definitely did. to me, the story never presented a solution to why they should want to do anything different. maybe the time that the two humans touched hands and had that “spark.”

All in all, I was fully aware when I wrote this “review” that Wall-E was a 8.4 on IMDB and, at the time, was ranking higher than Star Wars in the best movies of all times. So, as a piece of art I do not feel very qualified to bash it’s “quality” but I can say that I do not think that it was a good story or at the very least I did not find myself relating to it and for like a robot like myself that is the highest of my ranking qualification. Hence I hate Wall-E.