This was a really cute movie; great for watching with little ones. I really enjoyed the "over-the-top" roboticness; arms and manipulators that go through 720 degrees of motion, panels that slide and peel like onions, never-ending motion that results in a very simple action. The contrast between the stark hospital purity (aka, sterility) of the "future" robots and the grit, the run-down, energy-inefficient clumsiness of the older (WALL-E) was very well done. The team that wrote, designed, automated and directed WALL-E was ingenious; so many small details, so many idiosynracies, so many things that could be "real".
Two particular problems I had with the story (and Pixar to a degree). While so much attention is given to the landscape and WALL-E, the humans look like plastic toys. Ok, forget that they are enourmously overweight, so many of Pixar's humans look so unreal. Ok, now back to the story, it is just ridiculous that every single human is obscenely obese; where are the health nuts? The Tree huggers? And what's with every single person being so disconnected from reality that they do not even notice the "world" (ship) around them? If that was the whole point, the storywriters did well to go above and beyond to make it. But it just felt.... out of place. And the robot "Hospital Ward" was done up more like an experimental lab from a horror movie, only with bright shiny lights and pastel colors.
The romance was light-hearted and heart warming. The pixelized facial expressions of the white robot (EVE) were great; interesting how they were so retro, as well. I enjoyed the complete facial swipes as EVE attempted to find a language that WALL-E would understand.
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