Dragonfly was very excited to see this. (He loves the idea of rockets, space and robots) So, the whole family goes for the 4th. Dragonfly was so bored for the first 2/3 and Ladybug just wouldn't sit still for the last 2/3. We knew there wouldn't be a lot of dialog but it just moved too slowly for them and they really didn't get what was going on.
Some parts were funny, but it was hard to pay attention and get into the story with the blatant message,that this movie was really about, overshadowing it. We were so disappointed. Not a movie for children. Save your money!
Some parts were funny, but it was hard to pay attention and get into the story with the blatant message,that this movie was really about, overshadowing it. We were so disappointed. Not a movie for children. Save your money!
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Greatest Pixar movie ever. Hands down. B & I both loved it.
For kids? Not so much.
I concur. We loved Wall-E. The kids actually sat through the whole thing which was a miracle in and of itself. Much better than the crap-tastic Ratatouille.
With regards to the title of your post, I looked at several reviews of the movie before going to see it, and it was obvious from all of these that Wall-E is NOT a movie that will interest a lot of kids. Pixar didn't market this as a movie "for kids", unless you consider a G-rating and animation as synonymous with "for kids". So, if the movie wasn't intended for kids, exactly what ball did they drop?
Thats funny because I have seen Wall-E is on children's t-shirts, shoes, in the toy section and on children's birthday party supplies. This was even before the movie came out, so if Pixar wasn't' marketing to children....
You bring up a valid point. However, I think there is a difference between marketing a movie/plot to children and marketing its merchandise to children. I just looked at Toys R Us, and the top toy figurine they have is Iron Man. Was Iron Man marketed to "kids"?
The point is this: even a small bit of research into the movie itself--rather than its marketing efforts--would have saved you the money spent on movie tickets. Additionally, I think your opinion of the movie itself was likely affected by how much your children were (not) enjoying it. The numbers don't lie.
We considered taking Papu, but after looking at the Parents' comments, we decided he'd be bored.
Not disputing the "not for kids thing"...just the "dropped the ball" thing. I'm a Wall-E fanboy.
Why the ball was dropped.
Apart from the message the movie sent, Pixar dropped the ball by not developing a solid plot. Previous Pixar films had well defined direction and purpose. Wall-e (as a character) seemed to lack purpose as a character (for a main character) until the very end when it seemed like his only contribution was to stop the platform.
Other times, his position to save the day appeared coincidental. It would have been better if wall-e could have better expressed his motivation as to be in Eve's company. It seemed like he kept flip-flopping between saving the plant and being with Eve. Pick a motive and go with it, or have something happen in the movie to clearly state a change of motivation.
Totally disagree on the whole plot issue, but that's my opinion, which I'll not further develop here, as I've taken up enough space on this post.
Read the review at LoveBoxes.blogspot.com.
Thanks for the input!
My youngins saw this when it came out (they went with my mom-in-law so I wasn't there). All I know is they say that they liked it but they don't rave about it like they did over Cars, Toy Story, Monsters Inc, etc.
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