Given Pixar's track record, I am looking forward to their new production, Wall-e, with quite a bit of giddy anticipation. I've never been particularly enamored of robots, so I was a bit apprehensive at first, but let's face it, cars really don't do anything for me at all (aside from getting me from point A to point B), and I loved Cars anyway. Granted Cars wasn't my favorite Pixar outing, but still a solid picture that I thoroughly enjoyed. Wall-e premieres later this month and I'm pretty excited. The reviews have been nothing but positive so far, and, aside from the threat of children being in attendance at the theatre [insert cold shudder and annoyed glare], I fully expect to be completely enthralled.
In several of the reviews I've come across lately, however, there have been more than a few, rather disconcerting comparisons to the 1986 craptasticness that was Short Circuit. While I admit there's a certain similarity between the physical designs of Wall-e and Number 5, I'm hopeful the similarities end there.
This trailer for Wall-e makes me quite hopeful:
Compare the charming trailer of Wall-e to the unbelievable creep-fest that is this scene from Short Circuit... I think we can all agree that Short Circuit set a very low, very quease-inducing bar that Wall-e won't come anywhere close to...
To quote the I Love the 80's review of this scene, "Oh geez... are they gonna make out?" Yikes and double yikes.
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Oh but come on...Steve Guttenberg. Gotta love that guy.
So Nate made me watch Short Circuit in the early years of marriage (WOW. I can actually say the "early years of marriage.") cause he said he loved it as a kid... yeah we laughed all the way through it, HORRIBLE just HORRIBLE!!!
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