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Wall-E.

The first like 15 minutes have no dialog. The rest of the movie is a profound commentary on modern life told as a children’s story

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I wish I liked Wall-E more.

The last time I watched it, I felt like there was a narrative disconnect about midway through the movie where the primary plot just changes. (One is Wall-E's relationship with EVE, the other is the saving of humanity.) It's not that I can't deal with both plots being in the movie, but it seemed to me that there was kind of an overt switch between them, and it really brought me out of my enjoyment.

Maybe I'll give it another go sometime, though. There's a lot of great stuff in there! I just wish it all flowed better for me.

Wall-E is the hacker robot who brought some sense to a messed up world; i thought that was very inspiring.(and they managed to draw a likeable cockroach; genius plot)

It was always about earth, though. It's why Eve was there in the first place?

I mean sure, in a sense, but a significant portion of Wall-E's personal plot is focused primarily on his relationship with Eve with very little specific focus on Earth. There's a shift about midway through the movie that radically changes this focus, and I didn't love the way it happened.

I really like most of the Pixar movies. I find them enjoyable both from a children and adult point of view while still touching pretty deep subject (inside out, up...)

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