Wall-E

In the distant future, a small waste collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.

This movie has a lot of buzz. Teasers came out months ago, critics gushed over it, it's been called the next Pixar masterpiece, blah blah blah. I feel weird saying this, but I really wasn't loving it. First of all, it dragged on and on and on. It felt like that flexible lamp short gone horribly awry. Wall-E is cute, yes, the animators did a great job of giving such an ugly little robot personality, yes, I liked that, but we get it already. Let's just make the movie a clean 80 minutes. It just confused me. A lot. I couldn't figure out if it was for children or adults. It moved really slow, generally a trait of movies for more mature viewers, but the story was very simplistic, like a traditional kid's flick. Gah! WHAT ARE YOU, "WALL-E"!!?? The lack of humans was definitely a problem for me; I know the robots were supposed to replace the human qualities, but the robots were just so darn cute ALL THE TIME. And the actual humans were so depressing, I felt like I wanted to die. The end had hope for humanity, but STILL. They were just saaaaaad. Other Pixar movies are so much better. No robot with a two-word vocabulary can replace the voice work of Ellen Degeneres in "Finding Nemo," or the character of Mike in "Monsters Inc."