I saw Wall-e last night, I liked it okay but all in all it disappointed. Maybe its one of those situations where you hear too much about something and get your hopes up so high the real thing couldn't possibly satisfy you, but I thought so many things were said about that the movie that were either blatantly untrue or wrong from a more technical standpoint.
The animation was good, as always, but I've heard so much about how this latest movie surpasses all of pixar's previous works by volumes and it just doesn't. The reason the animation seems so incredible is because the characters are so inhuman. Thanks to a little principle called
uncanny valley, Pixar's more human animated characters (Shrek and the like) will never look anywhere as good as these characters do. Its not a technological achievement by any means; this is especially apparent while watching the human characters in the movie (They look terrible in contrast). The story upped its game from the typical Pixar fare but the emotional climax fell short and without spoiling anything, the fix was kind of nonsensical and would leave, I think, younger viewers confused.
Few other things: There was a lot of potential to be had in a movie with less or no dialog and the introduction of ugly, boring humans didn't help it in any way. The director made a big deal about the camera work, which is some shots was spectacular (brief shopping mall scene on earth) and in others merely passable; I guess I'm saying, I don't think its worth bragging over or nothing.
Still, the interaction between the two robots was cute, and its worth seeing if only for that. It probably would make a good date movie.