Why WALL-E is a Masterpiece

2008's WALL-E is hailed as one of the best animated movies of all time and here's why
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[@HarboWholmes]

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[@blakesheldon3167]

Hey I’ve been a fan for a while love your doctor who content and love your reviews any chance you can please do treasure planet it’s my favourite movie from when I was a kid and I want to know your opinion

[@StephenLeGresley]

Are there any restriction on what can be chosen? Because my two picks would be Twin Peaks and Babylon 5.

[@vann.E]

It makes me sad to see that wall-E has kind of been forgotten over the years. It’s one of if not my favorite movie and it honestly deserves more.

[@micahscott3895]

It was my favorite movie as a kid (*tied with Doogal*) and it's part of the reason why I got so interested in astronomy and science in general.

[@skinner219]

This is a movie that no one can hate. Honestly, there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s funny, sweet, inspiring, and memorable. This is a movie that doesn’t need a sequel or prequel. It can be watched by any age, and gender. And the animation is outstanding.

[@rangerzickle3350]

I know a number of people who hate this film for the simplest made-up reasons. The most common one I get when i ask is: because almost no one spoke in the film. they didnt like it because there was not enough talking in it

[@skinner219]

@@rangerzickle3350 Showing is the key than talking.

[@hannahmills9959]

@@rangerzickle3350 I knew a guy in middle school who hated it because "robots don't have feelings." Like, that's kind of the point?? Overall he just thought it was stupid, which made me, someone who has this movie as their special interest (in terms of autism), a bit upset for a few weeks. So yeah, I will always remember that there are people who exist that hate this movie

[@sillyahh420]

@@hannahmills9959 nerd type beat

[@kemble9900]

I saw someone on Reddit point out a while ago the wind turbines are all on top of the trash piles. Just another detail to show the humans really left it as late as possible to even start trying with the environment

[@Tulf42]

Another thing I love about Wall.E is the gorgeous music from Thomas Newman. The characters have recognisable themes and there is a good mixture of the orchestral instruments such as the harps, flutes and violins, that play differently to most other movie soundtracks, from my observations of music in TV and film. "Define Dancing" is the one of the most memorable pieces from the score for how fun and magical it sounds when seeing Wall.E and E.V.E. flying in space. I also like to believe Thomas referred back to his work on Wall.E when working on the music for Passengers, another movie set aboard a holiday themed spaceship with music of similar vibes to Wall.E and Finding Nemo.

[@thunderpantz]

The Define Dancing scene and that kiss beforehand was probably the greatest thing Pixar made.

[@Awoodcock30]

I'm an adult guy but honestly wall-e and eve in space flying had me in tears so beautiful

[@rogersmith9535]

Pixar's decline into mediocrity (with a few good recent films) from non-stop classics has been sad to see. Hope they can get back to that level.

[@ptolemeeselenion1542]

It's not just Pixar. Almost all of Disney turned into a dumpster fire since Spring 2018 onward. Mediocre Pixar films. Mediocre Disney+ remakes/sequels to iconic 20th Century Fox film franchises ("Prey" being the sole exception) . Mediocre Family Guy episodes. _More_ mediocre The Simpsons episodes. Mediocre MCU films and TV shows since the decline of positive public reviews with "Avengers: Infinity War" onward. And don't let me start about "Star Wars Episode IX" and some of their TV shows. Let's hope that "Daredevil: Born Again" and the upcoming Indiana Jones film wouldn't be affected much by Big Brother Mouse.

[@Gengu]

Pixar’s last good film for me was Coco but the decline of Pixar began in 2011

[@victalfaithful2003]

Your expectations are unrealistically high

[@Sticiboi]

Hard to make good movies when this perfect movie exists

[@MariusPartenie]

@@Gengu Late to comment, but Coco was released in 2017. Do you mean to say that you didn't find Soul (2020) a great movie?

[@Noivern87]

I was marveled the first time I watched it, and every time since, at how much emotion they managed to give a robot that could barely talk or make facial expressions. Also, needless to say, it has never failed to bring tears to my eyes.

[@christophersheets5452]

WALL-E is a movie that have, several times, talked about for several hours. Its the culmination of ideas dwelled upon in Dante's Divine Comedy, Shakespeare, The Book of Revelation in the Bible, and Hello Dolly! It effortlessly expresses and unifies a variety of deep philosophical concepts as well as being an incredibly beautiful and engaging children's film. One of the greatest of all time.

[@taraortiz]

BRA-VO, Mr. Sheets. Beautifully said. I would argue this transcends a children's film genre, to be one of THE greatest films of all time.

[@christophersheets5452]

@@taraortiz Don't applaud me for this. I've put people to sleep talking about Wall-E before

[@lexwithbub]

The sound design in wall-E is amazing. With very little actual dialogue, the sound design has to pick up the mantle. The DVD has a mini doco about the sound design. And as we know the best sound design isn't in your face. Like cgi, it works best when you don't even notice what it's doing. It just does it. Worth a watch if you can.

[@armaslohemadu]

One of, if not the favorite pixar movie for me. Its just the simplicity of a robot wanting closeness, which at the same time shows such complexity to the relationship between them

[@RoyalKingOliver]

Honestly, I hope more people commission Harbo for more Pixar videos. I would kill to see him analyze Ratatouille and The Incredibles. Man, this video really makes me nostalgic of Pixar in the 2000s. They were an absolute juggernaut throughout the decade l

[@andrewsmallacombe9468]

When the best film of that decade was a Pixar movie. How the mighty have fallen.

[@Josh-ze6xo]

2000s pixar was peak art.

[@skinner219]

Definitely

[@dex6711-yu2dm]

+Toy Story 3 and it's perfect

[@MeowChristodoulos]

@@dex6711-yu2dm + Monsters University, Coco and (kinda) Cars 3

[@Pika999]

I was OBSESSED with this movie as a kid, this and Cars were my favorite childhood movies and I collected all the toys and merch I could for both of them, I still have a lot of it too, it's in storage at my grandma's house, but I still have it 😅

[@devindubay7911]

THIS MOVIE WILL BE 15 YEARS THIS YEAR, WHICH IS AMAZING!!!!!!

[@Thefirefan15]

1:56 even the ring box has BnL on it.

[@bohdan_lvov]

I disagree on your view of Auto - to me it's a centerpiece of the over reliance on the technology arc, when there's literally not villain, not evil plan, it's just a machine that's doing exactly what it was programmed to do - unlike Wall-E who developed a personality and was able to deviate from his programming. Auto is clearly a reference to HAL 9000 from 2001: Space Odyssey, so it's bizarre to me when people loosing this part of the context.

[@BritishTrainspotting]

While its not intentionally a villain, it still is the villain in the films plot. This is what happens when we rely on technology too much, it cannot change alongside our changing intentions and goals, and thus is a setback for progress of society. The real villain is capitalism and massive private companies taking over the majority of most markets, that amount of control is dangerous in the wrong hands, and there is rarely hands that aren't wrong in that kind of position.

[@zqxzqxzqx1]

Best end credits, ever.

[@rachellerobinson7901]

Yes

[@robvegas9354]

Definitely one of the best movies ever made. A true Classic!

[@crash.mp4]

Harbo! Hope all is well. Would you ever consider doing either a Harry Potter series review or perhaps a season by season review of the Stargate shows? Lots of lore n whatnot to get into, could be up your street

[@tomhibbert6486]

I am so happy with this review when I first came to your channel I knew this movie would be perfect for your KZbin channel thank you and expect more commissions in the future Next Time we will be "Top Gear" as we go to 🇻🇳

[@istream36Official]

I like how Harbo Wholmes covers the romance part and ecological perspective and CinemaSins actually pointed out actual plot holes like how is there one roach and the shouldn't the plant be dead after it floated in space and how does the economics and politics even exist in the world although it just tries to make the movie seem bad it does question all the right flaws of the film. More than just depicting on how important the romance and environment of the characters and setting of story but the channel 4shame actually covered how even within the movie AI matches perfectly to how AI can develop from the real world of today to those times and be misunderstood and how AI shouldn't be seen as a threat but rather likely just a misunderstood artificial lifeform. Alteori covered all of the ecological and AI reliance from humans of how the movie comes out. Wall-E is basically more than a prediction and warning of today of what will be disguised as a fiction film but a docufilm the more we ignore today's crisis becomes the more Wall-E is telling how the future will turn out to events that haven't happened yet but will.

[@LJW12MCFC]

My favourite film of all time. Everything about this is so so beautiful!

[@lasseehrenreich5502]

yes WALL-E is a Masterpiece

[@ToxicCatt-y7c]

Wall-E is becoming more of a documentary than a Pixar film at this point.

[@merafirewing6591]

Also it did pointed out that capitalism wasn't at fault and that greed is always what makes a mess out of society. Wall E is a movie that really aged like fine wine.

[@terra4686]

now review the wall-e videogame graphics aside (and tbf it was a licensed game from 2008) its a pretty good game (its sometimes on sale on steam for like £4, best played with a controller if you havent got it already)

[@NongyingLiden]

Very well made video, keep it up

[@andromedablissful]

wall-e has been my favorite pixar movie since i was born. i mean literally. my second favorite is incredibles but wall-e is better BY FAR for me personally.

[@ptolemeeselenion1542]

It's not just Pixar that has gone mediocre. Almost all of Disney turned into a dumpster fire since Spring 2018 onward. Mediocre Pixar films. Mediocre Disney+ remakes/sequels to iconic 20th Century Fox film franchises ("Prey" being the sole exception) . Mediocre Family Guy episodes. _More_ mediocre The Simpsons episodes. Mediocre MCU films and TV shows since the decline of positive public reviews with "Avengers: Infinity War" onward. And don't let me start about "Star Wars Episode IX" and some of their TV shows. Let's hope that "Daredevil: Born Again" and the upcoming Indiana Jones film wouldn't be affected much by Big Brother Mouse.

[@GriddyMeisters]

my forever favorite movie of all time

[@tristanrodway]

A quick shout-out to the music of the film too!

[@prettyoriginalnameprettyor7506]

First watched this at age 6. Still a banger today

[@jordanhenshaw]

Why is Wall-E a masterpiece? Because it compels the audience to cry by showing a trash compactor running over a cockroach. Such things can only be weaponized by masters.

[@AiRsTrIkExXzZ]

Just got to ask. If that shelf on the left of the screen just filled with all the doctor who episodes and stuff?

[@bellag3293]

Bold of you to assume that people wouldn’t get attached to a regular roomba

[@nicklaschristensen4696]

sora and wall e kh4 2023

[@deepakshrestha3194]

I would really wanna see how long the video would be if harbo did tick tick boom or Bo burnham’s inside

[@hughmann2285]

Is it just me, or does this guy sound like young David Attenborough

[@terrioncoleman6146]

How does Pixar go from masterpieces like this dystopian animated movie to gay astronauts

[@greywolf9783]

The world of Wall-E is VERY none cartoon and yet the axium looks very cartoonish just too add to the its fake and artificial nature again.

[@stephiis8882]

Wall-E is a bit propaganda-y, and I do tend to worry about that when it comes to kids moves. But the story is good other than that. It's not as heavy-handed as others.

[@davidrohde2636]

And then there's those people who see it as a cartoon and it is just for kid's. Those people are stupidly wrong but they allowed to be. They missing out on all the subtext of life lol

[@BarioIDL]

this is a movie of nikocados

[@Uniferyes]

My least favourite part of the movie was when it ended

[@jordanhenshaw]

This video is just a simplistic explanation of the film's theme that does nothing to explain why the film is a masterpiece, which it certainly is.

[@Maklocke]

heads up though, turning red slapped last year.

[@thecricketmoj]

Time waste.

[@TheDeanokiller]

What a surface level analysis.

[@gaittr]

You did a good job.😊