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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Jul 8, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Karen L. Black wrote:

> It is definitely a message movie. All of Pixar's films are. The  
> message I
> got was "keep trying." . . . The photography was stunning. . . .The  
> sequence on Earth is very much
> like a Jacque Tati or Buster Keaton film. . . . The pictures during  
> the end credits are well worth sitting through, not only
> for the story they tell, but the differing art styles. . . . In some  
> ways, it is an anti-"Silent Running." . . . My younger son won't sit  
> through many movies, but this one had his full
> attention.


On Jul 8, 2008, at 9:10 AM, Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
> It was entertaining. I didin't see much 'message', it
> was a continuation of the direction people are taking, so it was too  
> close
> to reality to have a 'message' for me. Also Wall-E's antics didn't  
> have much
> to do with the 'message', and overshadowed it.

Thank you, ladies.

Sounds like Wall-E is worth buying once it comes out on a disc. It may  
turn out to be one of those classics that people refer to in years  
hence.