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le_sacre said, (193 days ago)
oh, please do.
i really enjoyed how they had the "Buy 'n Large" logo come up after the disney logo at the end. i really respect that.
the movie pretty much wins in every territory. entertaining, thought-provoking, engaging, fun, sweet, interesting, purposeful, diverting....
soulcamp said, (191 days ago)
He's 5. We saw it this afternoon - very enjoyable for both of us. It met my expectations, so we will probably see it again.
le_sacre said, (191 days ago)
i'm curious how well 5-year-olds understand the significance of humanity's projected future. are there "teachable moments" in a film like that for the young 'uns?
and did he get scared?
Garak said, (191 days ago)
i think most went over the heads of the 4/5 year olds i saw it with
but there's some stuff in there that i was like "whoa" - interesting to slip 'em in there in a supposed kids film.
i found it a tad juvenile/simple, though. i was actually a bit disappointed at how simplistic it was, as Pixar's usually got a pretty delicate touch.
soulcamp said, (191 days ago)
@le_sacre: Well, his description of the movie before he actually saw it was that it was about a robot who was cleaning up the Earth because all the people made a mess and had to leave. But no, he doesn't really get the significance, other than what he already knows - littering is bad. And he really shouldn't at his age. That's for us to worry about right now - he's supposed to be having fun.
He was a little scared at times, but mostly when EVE arrived and was shooting things with her gun. But no more so than he usually is in a movie - he put his hands over his ears.
le_sacre said, (191 days ago)
movies like this make me wish i had kids to see it with.
@Garak: confused. so you were expecting to go "whoa" more than you did? you expected to be even more surprised than you were?
i haven't seen a bunch of the other pixar films, because i don't like cute and i don't like stereotyped emotive animation, but it was still never my impression that they did much particularly subtly--reading reviews suggesting this angle (or if not subtlety, at least unexpected austerity) in _wall-e_ was what made me want to go see it.
Garak said, (191 days ago)
i guess i just wanted the movie to be more like it was in the first half than the second
expressive, vs. all slapsticky and busy and "hey, we all turn into big fat people in 700 years - let's get off our duffs and not be lazy-louts!"
what i meant by the lighter touch in previous Pixar movies is that, yes, many of them have a message, but it was blended into the characters and their journey better
here, Wall-e's story/world felt like one movie, and the roly-poly humans another
Garak said, (191 days ago)
oh, and by "whoa" i meant more about the themes/ideas that were being presented, rather than the visual "whoa"s, of which there certainly were a few (particular highlight - the traveling-thru-space sequence)
was quite good.