"See, this is why you don't give a tsundere the BFG NINE-THOUSAND!"

[l_the_fangirl]

Sweet fucking Christ being paradropped in on Captain Planet's back, watch WALL-e!

It smacks you in the face with it's message of good stewardship in the earth and the dangers of conformity, but Christ, they do it so well I don't care. And it needed to be said, in this way, anyway.

Saying that it's essentially a romance shouldn't, I hope, be a spoiler. EVE is a wonderful foil for WALL-e, and manages to be more expressive than most actors with a vocabulary limited to:

- "Directive!"
- "Classified."
- "Designation?"
- "EVE."
- "WALL-E!!"
- ...and a Big "NOOOO~!"

And, yes, EVE is the aforementioned tsundere with a BFG 9000.

I really didn't expect Pixar to be able to visually represent a construction robot and a mobile i-Pod kissing. Wow. The little spark flying from EVE to WALL-e was a genius metaphor, and I think I actually squeed.

Both because it was awesome in it's own right and the choice of music was hilarious, I need to mention the Captian struggling to stand on his own two feet to Thus Spoke Zarathrustra (DUUUN... DUNNN... DUNNN~! DAH DAH!) I APPLAUDDED that scene.

WALL-e's reboot nearly gave me a Fridge Logic moment - "Okay, how did his memories of EVE survive his CPU being replaced, exactly? - Oh... wait... no... that wasn't his RAM. Okay, we're good then. ...aww, he's holding EVE's hand. How sweet." But, yeah, that was a wonderful, heartwarming moment.

Wow, wow. Just wow. I cannot recommend this film highly enough. Okay, so it's about as subtle as a plasma cannon to the gonads, but it's handled very well.

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[alextfish.livejournal.com]

I thought the film was good, but... It had rather too many FridgeLogic moments for me, and more than most Pixar movies. My wife explained her thoughts on it here. I didn't have her objections to the wordlessness, I quite liked that; but... gah, those just aren't robots! They act just like animals or people: idiosyncrasy, learning, the imitation instinct, appreciation of beauty, camaraderie... those are properties that are completely natural to animals (well, or just people in the case of beauty), but would be really hard to implement in a robot. OK, every fictional robot ever breaks their programming, and most of them fall in love, but... I've never seen them interact with other "robots" by external audio communication or typing on their keyboards! Some of the robots on the Axiom clearly do have network access, as demonstrated by the "Rogue Robots" photo being transmitted around the ship; so why on earth does the HAL autopilot need to press a button on the Captain's control panel to try to retract the plant panel?

Oh yeah, and if Wall-E is the only robot left on Earth (as the posters and trailers imply), then how have the toxicity levels dropped to human-tolerable levels, if there aren't any terraforming units around? It's not like the plant was growing naturally - Wall-E got it out of a fridge! (A literal FridgeLogic moment.)

I could go on, with questions about why Wall-E hasn't seen any EVEs before, where all the babies on the Axiom come from, how the plant survived in deep space, and so on. But I won't.

...It's kinda a pity that the science and technology is so very implausible, because the rest of the film is delightful. Wall-E and EVE are superb and very likeable characters, the message of the film is very sound, it's full of beautiful and charming imagery and scenes, the kiss is extremely well done... I'm very fond of a lot of the film.

Also, heh, I hadn't thought of EVE as a tsunderekko, but that does help explain why I liked her so much :)

[raidingparty.livejournal.com]

Otto/auto, that was it!

The Thus Spoke Zarathurstra cue made the anHalogy that much more obvious.