The latest production from Disney Pixar since the former acquired the latter, WALL-E looks like another case of beauty over brains: animated feature films that are visually cool but severely lacking in story, substance, or intelligence. Because, as you know if you've seen the trailer, the animation is so good it almost looks real (that begs the question: Is there a point at which animation gets too good, since it no longer looks animated at all, but like live action?), and I'll grant Disney Pixar that the character of WALL-E is adorable and endearing. When he folded his little metal hands (clamps?) together as the voice-over narrator said he's lonely, I'd be lying if I said I didn't melt a little inside. But still... this trailer, the posters and everything else I've been seeing and reading about this movie makes me think it's all cute, gimmicky robots-having-minds-of-their-own-and-holding-hands and nothing original. In other words: More Cars than The Incredibles. And if I have to hear WALL-E say "Waaaal-eeeee" in that creepy robot voice one more time, I'll kill myself. (Really, trailer-making people, did you have to use it twice in the same trailer?)

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