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Watch it or Whine: Wall-E
July 8th, 2008
The first movie we ever took The Son to go see was Horton Hears a Who. He liked it okay, but was going through a phase where every time he saw a bird he crowed like a rooster. Horton had a large vulture that had loads of screen time, which meant that The Son spent much of the movie crowing. We gave it six months and tried again. On Saturday my dad, Gabs, The Husband and I went to go see a movie starring a futuristic tree-hugging robot with an extremely limited vocabulary. Caution: spoilers are below. Well, as much as can be spoiled by a movie with a pre-school target audience.
Earth has been abandoned because it is covered in trash, pushed over the edge by the evil mega corporation B&L. Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) is a trash compacter living (existing?) on earth all alone. He has been busy working, hoarding, and watching Hello Dolly. One day a shiny giiiirl robot lands. Eve (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) They hook up robot style. She finds a plant and goes into lock down. Eve is then zapped up by a spaceship and is followed by Wall-E. They are taken to a cruise ship that contains all of the ancestors of the humans that abandoned earth. They have all gotten so fat they can’t walk, and live in front of mobile TVs. Skip forward an hour’s worth of hiding and chase scenes, They go back to Earth and recolonize based on the finding of that one teeny weeny weed. Wall-E and Eve hold hands and robot kiss.
The Son stayed still through most of it, he seemed to like it alright. My Dad really liked it, (I guess he just chose to ignore the liberal agenda behind it?) and Gabs, The Husband, and I were moderately entertained. If I could do it over, I would say Netflix this one, and save it for the pre-school left wing set. Oh, and their Grandpas.
2 and a half starry thumbs up or whatever. Not a Watch, or a Whine, but an Eh.
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I really liked Wall-E and so did Tark, of course we love just about anything Pixar does. My 8 year old loved it and I thought it was neat that a movie with such little dialogue could keep him entertained.
As far as the other aspects of the movie, yes it was a tree hugger movie, but lets not kid ourselves, we do need to make better choices with our consumer mentalities. Also, watching the people float around in the chairs and talk to a video on a screen of a person floating right beside them really reminded me of the teenagers I work with texting the person in the same room as them instead of face to face interaction.
So we liked it and it was worth the 3.50 we spent a piece to go see it.
Boy, movie tickets in your state are way cheaper than they are in mine…$3.50…that won’t buy a coke…much less a ticket.
At the nearby theater if you see a movie before 4:00pm its 3.50 so I am off Friday , MG and I and sometimes Tark go see a movie in the afternoon. Still in the evening the tickets are 6.00, not really bad at all. Actually moving to this state has been nice, no state income tax and no grocery tax.
Yeah…um last time I went to the movie theater here in J-town, the ticket alone cost me $10. A cherry diet coke was an additional $5.50, and I went without the $4.75 popcorn, because I’m really not a fan of all that salty-buttery-crap they give you at the movie theater…I’m more of an Act III Light microwavable popcorn girl. Let’s face it though, since the two movie theaters in town are owned by the same people, they really don’t have to worry about competition. They can charge whatever they want. Either people will go see the movie or they won’t, but if they do…they better secure a second mortgage on their house first if they take the whole family.
I have to take a step back from HeyYou and say, “MODERATELY?” I thought the animation was just insanely good. Especially the Cockroach <–one of my favorite parts, aside from the Cockroach’s food source…no spoiler content–watch it for yourselves and laugh a little.
Liberal agenda? only if you think that Al Gore is liberal (duh)
All in all, a must see BUT, a must see that could wait until Netflix, especially if you have ShoeShe’s theater prices.
Yeah, well, I think I can top ShoeShe’s movie prices. Joe and I were wanting to see The Dark Knight (Batman, for those of you who are NOT comic book fans, read: Hey You) at the local IMAX theater. We checked on tickets last night, and they are $12.50! Per person!! And, they don’t have matinee prices. I think we may be seeing this movie at the regular theater, where the matinee prices are (only??) $7.50. Sheesh!