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I may agree that the transition in the 2nd half of the movie was a bit sloppy for my taste, i thing it's more due to inconsistency in direction vs. how masterful the 1st half was.
it just shows had this been something directed by bird it would of been more adult on message while retaining the adorability of the main characters....the underlining message was FINE, in my opinion, but how they went at it was flawed. the captiain was way too incompetent and goofish to take seriously, the other two adult characters were too uninteresting, and it felt like they rushed on the resolution of it all
and it's sad, because the PREMISE that they were trying to stage was introspective and at times deep. the whole IRONY of this being a so-called "environmental" motivated flick, is the fact that "buy n large" WAS promoting environmental methods in the 1st place (i mean, WALL-E purpose's was recycling, as well as being solar powered), yet ended up being a mute point due to a nuclear holocaust. it touched on overt comsumerism and how the corporation will take over the government with the CEO and president equals the samething in governing. it touched on how the HUMANS are more like robots and the robots are more like humans, and how the humans are now more metaphorically "2-dimensional" when the past clips show them in complete 3 dimensional form- that in it self is a clever message on how devoid of humanity they became....their obesity and too consumed to commercialism, TV, and ect....it blatantly mocks how american society is today....
that whole CONCEPT was beautiful, but i felt that failed to gel it together in an adult way...staton was too concern about it being more children orientated, which is fine, but the way the 1st half was setup, he didn't really NEED to worry of maintaining the adorability
with that said, i'd RATHER it would of been a sad ending (which would of been something that never would of been greenlit) with WALL-E never remembering who he was again (due to the practical logic that he HAD his old memory chip replaced to a new one) and EVE forever caring for him the same way he cared for her while she closed up completely once she 1st discovered the plant....like on some nancy reagan/ ronnie reagan alzheimer's shit....
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