wall-e review-ish
I don’t do movie reviews here. Occasionally a rant about some piece of crap movie, but never a real review. I don’t intend to start today with Wall-e. However, I have a little bit to say about it given the various reviews that have called it “perfect’ or “near perfect.”
Wall-e is most certainly an amazing movie. I LOVED it. I have recommended it to everyone, and now I am recommending it to you. It isn’t as good as the masterpieces The Incredibles or Ratatouille, but it is great. However, it has one very serious flaw that seems to be being ignored by most reviewers or at least only mentioned in passing.
CAUTION, possible SPOILER below:
In my opinion, the decision to use live action actors in all the video sequences (President, musicals, humans earth-departure, etc) was a HUGE mistake. It was the first time ever during a Pixar animation that my concentration was broken and the movie magic shattered. It becomes particularly disruptive after animated humans are introduced to the story. (Earlier I thought maybe there would be no animated humans and thought the initial video sequences were forgivable.) I don’t really understand how they made this decision or why anyone would argue this was a good choice. it is terrible, unnecessary, and unprecedented. Bad, bad, bad.
On another more positive note, Presto, the short animation before Wall-e is the funniest damn thing I’ve ever seen. Luckily it is available to purchase on iTunes for $1.99 and I have now watched it 25 times. I wonder if this was in production before the game Portal became popular? So good. Lucky for you, it is also available for free here in flash video format. [via notcot.]
I hadn’t even thought about this until your post here, which I guess means their choice did not break my concentration at all - good or bad, I have no idea. Maybe because the “real” humans were in the past - a different time. An attempt to mark a distinct delineation by the director.
I skipped your post beyond the spoiler alert, but I do plan to see Wall-E, so I’ll come back and read it. The thing is, I totally agree with your statement that The Incredibles is a masterpiece, and I’ve heard the same word thrown around for Wall-E. But Ratatouille??? That movie was average at best. A masterpiece of decent-looking mediocrity.
Looking forward to Wall-E, though.
The real life humans didn’t break my concentration. But I did like the first hour or so of the movie the best — which didn’t feature any human at all, real or animated.
The short film before the movie was worth the price of admission alone…as for the movie..it wasnt Pixars best..but it had its moments….getting my car locked in the Home Depot parking lot for 2 hours after the movie didnt help either **cough**Chris’s idea**cough**