WALL-E review reaction
Wednesday May 13th 2009, 4:13 pm
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1. In the moment, it’s intermittently transcendent, heartrending and beautiful … and busy, repetitious and boring. -San Francisco Chronicle

2. A charmer of a film and a delightful piece of storytelling. -Seattle P.I.

3. The first half hour of WALL-E is essentially wordless, and left me speechless. This magnificent animated feature from Pixar starts on such a high plane of aspiration, and achievement, that you wonder whether the wonder can be sustained. But yes, it can. -Wall Street Journal

4. Daring and traditional, groundbreaking and familiar, apocalyptic and sentimental, Wall-E gains strength from embracing contradictions that would destroy other films. -L.A. Times

5. It’s Pixar’s most daring experiment to date, but it still fits neatly into the studio’s pantheon: Made with as much focus on heart as on visual quality, it’s a sheer joy.

The first review says that the movie is good looking but the same over and over. Not much is the same to me since the script is mostly silent and there isn’t much to know from what the characters say. The Wall Street Journal review saw one’s awe at the silent portions at the movie’s start. I felt the same as well when I saw it and I can agree with the statement. The fifth one is also an eye opener since the reason it’s daring is it’s a movie about the future and what could be in store for us.