Movie Reviews: Robin Hood (1973) & Wall-E (2008)

This week, we're jumping from the forests of medieval England to the far reaches of space as we review Robin Hood (1973) and WALL-E (2008).

🏹 Robin Hood — Oo-de-lally! Disney transforms the legendary outlaw into one seriously charming fox as Robin Hood and Little John battle Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham. We break down the memorable characters, catchy music, classic Disney humor, Robin and Maid Marian's romance, and why this underdog adventure has remained a nostalgic favorite for generations.

🤖 WALL-E — Centuries later, Earth has become a very different place. Pixar introduces us to a lonely little trash-compacting robot whose discovery of EVE sends him on an adventure that could determine humanity's future. We discuss the incredible visual storytelling, WALL-E and EVE's relationship, the film's environmental themes, Thomas Newman's score, and how Pixar created one of its most ambitious and emotional films.

🎙️ In this episode, we discuss:
🏹 Two Unlikely Heroes — a clever outlaw fox and a tiny trash-compacting robot who refuse to give up
❤️ Love Stories — Robin & Marian and WALL-E & EVE bring plenty of heart to both adventures
🌎 Fighting for a Better World — challenging Prince John's rule in Nottingham versus restoring humanity's abandoned home
🎨 Disney Animation Across Generations — comparing the hand-drawn style of 1973 with Pixar's groundbreaking computer animation 35 years later
🎵 Music & Storytelling — from "Oo-De-Lally" to WALL-E's largely dialogue-free opening
😂 Comedy, Heart & Adventure — how both movies balance laughs with surprisingly meaningful stories
🎥 Plus our favorite scenes, characters, fun facts, trivia, Easter eggs, and final ratings!

Two animated classics. Two unlikely heroes. Two completely different eras of Disney.

From Nottingham to the final frontier, it's time for another Jersey Nerds Disney double feature!

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Brandon Tew

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Mitchell Lea

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Tommy Grant

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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. And Tommy Frank here with me as we are set to dive into one of Brandon's choices. It was Brandon's go around on the IMDb list. And epic. Uh, he decided it was Disney Day, and I don't know if we've had one of these yet. We. I don't think we've had it. It's not animated. Uh, okay. So we're we're breaking new ground, which is always exciting to do. Uh, and we're doing, uh, a double a Disney double feature. We're going to do Pixar and then we're doing an old school Disney. We've got Wall-E. Uh, and then we've also got the, uh, 1973 Robin Hood. So we'll start out with. Let's start out with let's start out with Robin. Let's. Let's, let's let's do Robin Hood and we'll work our way. Exactly. Yeah. So, uh, this is not on the IMDb top 50. It was just what Brandon chose to pair with his top 250 pic of Wally. And, uh, this 1979. So you're not gonna like this, so. Oh, well, we'll get to my personal opinions later. Uh, released November 8th, 1973. For some reason, I thought it was going to be. I thought it was 60. I thought it was older than 19. Yeah. This is a 70s movie. Um, so that that surprised me a little bit. But a five minute animation movie. Never mind. I'll get to that later. Uh, budget of $5 million at a box office, $33 million. So it was successful, you know, I suppose. Um, Brandon, would you, uh, would you positive comment about this? This movie has a 58% on Rotten Tomatoes. I don't judge, uh, Disney animation movies. After I made it, I thought that I thought that this movie was going to be. Because I. I haven't seen this movie since I was like four. It's been a long, long time. Yeah. That's fair. That's good. And I think that everyone kind of remembers it pretty fondly, because I watched it with my wife and she was like, oh yeah, cool, let's watch Robin Hood. I'm excited for that. And we both like 15 to 20 minutes in. We're just like, this sucks, right? Like the this this isn't good. So it's a very slow eye for me. I put it like a rainy day movie. Like, if it's kind of gloomy out, you're just looking for something to have on the background. That's, like, mildly entertaining to watch. On the side, that's the perfect movie to throw on. I will say this. The intro. Like the way they start the movie, I promise. But then like ten minutes after that, it's like it was it was, you know, not as good. It's what Disney has always excelled at. And that's the reason. Yeah, yeah. No, I think the opening song is is good, but I mean, maybe Mitchell disagrees with that. I don't know. And I know Brandon, you kind of jokingly said like, this felt like a 60s Disney movie. It does. And the reason for that is because I was looking into it a little bit. They this is one of the most recycled animated movies in Disney history. And by that, you know, this is back in the times where they have hand sketch every single frame. And they used a lot of similar sketches from previous movies to animate this movie. For example, surprise me at all. It's like a couple of instance, uh, Maid Marian's dances come from Snow White. Uh, little John's dance, uh, is the same from Baloo. Uh, from jungle. Uh, Skippy movement is Bambi, and Prince John's like gestures and hand gestures are the same as King Louis from John. I don't think at all. I also don't mind. I think you're going to be surprised by my grade, and I don't think it's a nostalgia thing. I think I enjoy the movie as like, oh, they're doing something here. But overall the movie just doesn't quite hold up in terms of what they're trying to do. And I like again, I think the opening song is like very well done. And I think that that that sequence is fine. And then once you get from that part, it's like, okay. But then it like they go somewhere else over there and then they go somewhere else, or they go somewhere else. They're like, can we just stick on one like consistent thing here? And I feel like they don't do that enough. They kind of bounce around and you can kind of tell like once, uh, once they like cut the black or like fade to black, you're like, oh, here comes like another part of the story that, like, it's just gonna really disconnect for what we were looking at like five minutes earlier. And this, this movie also came out in like, what they call it the dark period of Disney animation, because this was. Uh, Walt Disney died in 1966. And the 70s were kind of a financial like. They're in a big slump. They weren't coming out with as many movies because they just weren't sure what direction to go in. And this was on the earlier phase that the 70s, you had The Aristocats, Robin Hood, uh, The Rescuers, like a lot of, like mid Disney movies that aren't really, like, mind blowingly great. But yeah, like, I don't know if y'all enjoy Aristocats, but I like Aristocats. But I also understand, like, people not like you. Like, I, I, I haven't seen that movie since I was like four, so I don't know. I think that's the problem with a lot of these movies, which probably has a season was like five five. It was the period of like mixed reviews of just every Disney movie was just like, so when was the upswing of Disney? I guess that's the real like, yeah, the Disney Renaissance that got going with stuff like Little Mermaid, uh, beauty and the beast. Honestly, I would say the the 90s, the 90s, the 90s that started in the late 80s with little late 80s. Yeah, late 80s or 90s. Yeah, but not for me. Yeah. The 90s is really where Disney made its massive. Yeah, that could just be pure nostalgia, but I think, you know. No, no. That's where I think the Disney renaissance in there in the 80s to the 90s. And then from that point on, going into like now we got Pixar. Yeah. But, um, this was the first movie released on, uh, Walt Disney. That was a Walt Disney VHS home video release, uh, released on, on VHS, uh, Betamax, Laserdisc, all that in December of 1984. And they thought that the idea of releasing any of their animated classics might threaten future theatrical reissue revenue. However, they viewed Robin Hood as the best choice to roll it out with because it wasn't held in high esteem as the other movies. Uh, so Robin Hood was the first one, but didn't make money with it. Made money off the VHS though, because I own the V, I feel like everyone owned the VHS. That's what I'm saying. All the 80s and 90s all had the VHS. Let's be honest. Yeah. Also, in case you're wondering. Yeah, we've been talking about, like, home release and recycling, animation and all that stuff, because what in the blue hell are you supposed to talk about in regards to this actual movie and the plot of it? We know what Robin Hood takes from the rich to give to the poor this movie. Brandon says at least this movie does something. I don't agree. No, this movie felt like it didn't move at all. This movie felt like it was trapped in quicksand. And the first scene is the second scene. Third scene is every scene. It's exactly the same. It did the same in the sense of you took a story and you made it all really intense. Granted, that doesn't really do much, but it's, you know, it's kind of taking a classic story, looking out for people and be like, hey, all these animals are now rock. So it was a weird movie, but it seems like, uh, who was the, um. God, who was the, uh, the like rooster that was, like, narrating at the very beginning. Like, I think that idea, like, again, putting him in the story is fine, but then you, like, do nothing with it. I think Brian Bradford is actually like, I think he's actually good as Robin Hood. You just don't give him enough, like of a character or enough things to do. And then by the time you get to like 30 or 40 minutes in, you're like, I really haven't learned anything about Robin Hood here, and I haven't learned anything about Little John. And all I know is Friar Tuck just kind of comes in at some point, and we're supposed to care about him now. Everything just felt so like, cool. Now it's the same. It's the same like shots over and over again. But the story is so to me like disconnected in terms of like, okay, we're over here now. We're over here now. We're over here now. We're doing this, now we're doing that. And it's like, why can't we just focus on like 3 or 4 characters? Like, to me, when you bring in like Robin Hood and he gives the he gives the kid the bow, it's like, okay, like, let's stay on that storyline and focus on that. They stay on that storyline for like 10 or 15 minutes. They kind of have like a weird Maid Marian thing happen. And then they they cut back to Robin Hood. I'm like, what are we like, just stay in one spot. Like again, I think they I think they did things, but they didn't start. They didn't they didn't stay in one spot. That's my biggest thought. The the rooster was played by Roger Miller, who is a famous 1960s American songwriter. Oh, okay. He probably wrote these songs, I believe. Yeah, he he did write that song. The the opening song. Yeah, that hits me, I think. I can't believe that pisses you off. Honestly annoyed the shit out of me. I hear that song I like, listen to it all the way through. I actually think that's a really good song. Like, what's wrong with the song Goin the Hell Out? I mean, I don't think Mitchell for being a country music lovers. Yeah, I mean, sure, but it's like, I don't understand what was wrong with that. It kind of described what was happening. All right. Let me ask you this. If it was performed by Justin Timberlake, would you have enjoyed it? Yeah, that's. Yeah, it would be different. Well, this movie was made before Justin Timberlake was born. That's not what I asked. I said if it was performed by Justin Timberlake. Would you enjoy that? If they remade this movie and Justin Timberlake played The Angry State, would you would be like, why is Justin Timberlake coming in so infrequently? Are you in do something with this character. They don't do anything. They cannot be. No, no, that's a fair point. They do nothing with the character. There's a lot of ups and downs you don't need. You don't need another study. Do you really need him? Thank you. You don't need him at all. But if you have him, at least do something with him. And he's. He's just. Some guy goes around now. Now Robin Hood is gonna do this thing. You mean the same thing he's done already in the movie at four time? Yeah. This is also for little children. Sometimes it's for kids. Can you. Yes. Okay. Why are you at least here? You are not guaranteed. Can you at least acknowledge that Brian Redford and Phil Harris are like a good combo? They just don't show up enough with personality that. But what, you didn't like Robert Littlejohn, at least. Together they they didn't show a personality. But you like them, right? What? I just know don't. I don't think Littlejohn are that bad. Like, I actually think it's like a good. I would have been more entertained if they had Littlejohn in there. At least something would have happened. I think we were taking our opinions too far for a underrated lady. These these movies did not have the same heart and soul as more modern. The Sheriff of Nottingham was also God. What? There was an actual snake in this movie. I was like, that guy is the real thing, you know? It's like that dude, just those bloody people left. And again, I didn't think the performances were like awful. I like Robin Hood. I like Little John. I like the Sheriff of Nottingham. I thought, sir, this was like funny. And Prince John was like, okay. But like that kind of where it stopped me, like, I don't the rest of these characters, I, I mean, I get, I get that you're trying to like, it's a kids movie and you're trying to, like, appeal to kids, like attention spans and stuff like that. But I don't know, there could have been more of a there could have been a better plot, and there could have been a better storytelling aspect of this movie. Again, I think they do some things well, but not enough for me to be like, oh yeah, this is an awesome movie. Like, I it is what it is. Like again, I guess Mitchell is not going to be shocked by my grade. Apparently that's what he said earlier. For me, this felt like it was meant to be more of like, uh, reading a kid's book kind of vibe. I think that's what they were going for. And they didn't. They didn't succeed. It's just a simple telling of that's fine. Nothing. Nothing complex. But they didn't succeed at doing that. Well, that's the problem. I, I agree with you. I think that's what they're going for. But it doesn't work because the narrator barely is in the movie, and he just randomly shows up out of nowhere. And you start singing in a jail about the ups and downs of Nottingham or whatever, um, or whatever. That's a good way to describe this. This is kind of what this movie is or whatever. Like, honestly, Stan, the archery competition longer, you know, like, that was at least like something was happening. Like it was fun. You're really running out of things to say. You didn't care that he like bullseye. Like with another arrow like that. That's the famous Robin Hood shot. Yeah. You didn't like that? It was stupid. Uh, I gave it. Just give it. Just give it an after you. Uh, no. No, I never was pissed off by the, um. I was just bored. It's a it's a D+ 96.88. The thing is that it's just it's boring, but, you know, it is short. I will give it that. It is an hour and 23 minutes. This movie gets in. Get out. It doesn't feel like it does, but I can only go so low with this because it didn't waste my time and it didn't piss me off any at all. But it is also just for it not being a waste of time. It sure does waste its time. So I. I don't know man. This is a movie I'm never going to think about again. Ever. That's. Yeah. That's fair. Um C plus 85 point. I was a C-47. Yeah, I mean, okay. I don't think there was anything like necessarily. I just don't think they executed something well. And it ends up being like the joke, the the joke, the joke to me is you could argue that this is the best Robin Hood movie I like. I think that's the joke. I think I, the Queen, has not been executed well. And actually, that's not true. The death of Robin Hood, the death of Robin Hood was definitely better than the movie, but I wouldn't consider the death of Robin Hood about. I haven't seen Death of Robin Hood yet. Haven't seen Men in Tights. Haven't seen Prince of Thieves. The three Robin Hood movies that I've seen are this the Russell Crowe movie from 2010 and the Taron Edgerton movie from 2018, and they are all movies I do not like. But if I had to watch one of them again, I would watch this one. Okay. That's interesting. So Karen Anderson, did he play Robin? That was a bad one. That was a bad. Bad. And the Russell and the Russell Crowe movie, I just I don't think they can adapt Robin Hood well, which is I don't know about the story well, but Robin Hood's an interesting like idea what to do. Rob some rich people like that should be entertaining. I feel like it's not right. Robin hood is a character, is one that could just be molded into other movies, and doesn't need to be a Robin Hood. Remake. It could just be take the character concept, put it into a different movie in there. You don't have to. Actually, I will say King Arthur is like another like classic tale that I feel like isn't executed well. Like most of it, they had the, uh, they had the movie with Hera Knightley back in the 2000. And then they had the one Guy Ritchie watching. Yeah, the Guy Ritchie. I watched that movie, the strip mall. She didn't hate it. But yeah, you got you. You got some Asian guy named George. Teaching people karate at a strip mall or whatever. Like it was the weirdest. I feel like if you're going to have classic films like this, I'm like, wait, what? I'm not saying, you know, I'm not going to ask questions on this. Yeah, watch the movie. You'll find out the Guy Ritchie movie is crazy. I, I stop watch again if you're not going to execute classic ls I. Yeah. Don't try to yeah. Don't try. Or at least you know. But that's what he does. I know it's based on like a graphic novel, but that movie, for all its flaws, is a good time. We say that. But Disney animation always goes to like these. Grimm in the Brother Grimm like movie like storyline. So I'm sure they're going to do something with Brother Grimm at some other point, like that's going to be their next Disney Animation movie. So I'm sure they're I'm sure they're going to go back to the well, that's what he does. He goes back to that. Well, I don't think they're going to be they just keep making the remakes of all the animated movies and saying, hey, listen, the live action, actually, before we move to Wall-E, can we have that discussion? Do we think it ends with. No, it's not a show. No, it's making it. No, because there's are. They're already in production on tangled. Yeah, yeah. But after tangled. Oh, after all the ones that are already in production, tangled is going to kill and tangled going to be good. Because from the director of Better Man. So, yeah, tangled is going to be good. Do we need it, though? We don't need live action Disney on the live action. You get all these crappy remakes, but then you get one of them that's, like actually decent. Oh, this is very good. And then that push is like, all right, well, we gotta keep making more. Okay. At least we got a unique animated story. At least we got a unique animated story with the next movie. Yes. Yes it is. I feel like I have to, like, wake myself up. Yeah, I'm glad we started with Rob, because. Exactly. Yeah, it would be nice. So let's start with it. All right. So, uh, first Pixar movie that we are going to talk about, which is kind of an interesting, uh, concept. Uh, Wall-E is one is written and directed by, uh, Andrew Stanton. And, uh, it came out in June of 2008, $180 million budget, $532 million, uh, at the box office. So it was successful, but it wasn't some, like, giant runaway hit. Um, I am surprised when I looked this up, uh, Brandon, because I know that it is, uh, an IMDb movie. Uh, I thought it was a lot lower on the IMDb top 250. It's number 57. It's 57. Uh, it is. It might be Pixar's highest movie on that list. In fact, it is Pixar movie. Uh, it's not Disney's highest movie is that is the, uh, The Lion King, but actually so that so this beat out like incredible, uh, this beat out Toy Story, which I kind of thought that. Yeah. Uh, okay. This this, uh, I'm the second highest movie on that list for Pixar is Coco. And then you've got Toy Story and you've got Toy Story. That's how you know. And that's how they don't even have one. That's how you know that. Yeah. But Coco being number two. Interesting. I remember seeing that with you, Brandon, but I did not see this with you. I didn't I had no idea this was my. So this was my first time watching this movie. And I gotta say, I get I get to take people are like the first half of this movie. Best picture was like awesome, amazing. And then they get into space and it's like, still a great movie. But. What is going back to that? We'll come back to that here in a second. I've got. Yeah. This was this was nominated for six Academy Awards. Uh, it won one and one. Uh, it won for Best Animated feature over both and Kung Fu Panda. I think the Academy got that one right. Um, this was nominated for best writing, original screenplay. It lost the mill. This is. This is original, right? Like, this is like, straight up. Like this is adapted. Yeah, yeah. Uh, best song for Down to Earth, I guess that was the end credits song that did not win. Um, best original score. Lost. Slumdog millionaire. Best sound editing. Lost to the Dark Knight. Best sound mixing. Lost to Slumdog millionaire. Um. The movie. And as far as as far as the box office goes, they got two. You got two for this? Uh, was the number one movie released on June 20th. The weekend of June 27th. Made $63 million. Uh, it was not the only movie, however, to make over $50 million that opening weekend. What other movie? A movie that made $50.9 million in its opening weekend. Coming second behind wallet was their two animated movies going head to head. No, Kung Fu Panda came out, uh, you know, three weeks prior. So. Okay. Okay. Was it the whole. Nope. Uh, that this was Hulk's third week. The Edward Norton hold, that is. Yeah, I know. Iron man was meh. Yeah. Iron man. Mamma mia! Was July. Mamma mia! That came out with the Dark Knight. Oh. I got a story on that. I mean, while we're. While we're thinking. Do you want to share it is the, uh, Angelina Jolie James McAvoy action movie wanted? That, uh, that did that, uh, very okay movie. Um, and in 2008, this was the fifth highest grossing movie in North America. All of the top five movies were released in the summer. Can you name? Oh, uh. Dark night. Yep. That's one, uh, recounting, man. So, iron man. Hulk. Nope. Hulk was number 17. James bond. No, that was, um, mama mia. Nope. That was number 13. That's three. And then the fourth one is superhero ish. Adjacent Hancock. Hancock. Number four. That was a big movie that summer. Um, so I only remember summer 2008 was my summer of movies. This is my officially started going to movies. More than like, oh nine for me. And I remember seeing much better Summer for it. I remember seeing Kung Fu Panda. I don't know if this is where the nerd fandom officially hit me, because prior to this. I was a Star Wars boy through and through. And I just, you know, got pushed out in the ranks a few years prior. But this was the year I saw Iron Man in theaters. I was at, uh, I was in Wildwood and a bunch of late Iron Man just came out. It was raining. So we're like, we're not going to be like, let's go to the movies. And got sucked into the world of Marvel. Months later, we saw The Dark Knight, got sucked into Batman, and then saw Mamma mia! And a couple other movies that summer just got into movies. It's a much better summer to go to the movies than oh nine. Yeah, this is a heavy hitters movie. This is a very memorable year for me in terms of January movies. I remember seeing Gran Torino when that came out. I saw that, yeah, yeah. January, Cloverfield. January had Juno. Uh, April had 21. May had Iron Man movie memorable for me. I remember 21. Uh, this was the May had Iron Man. June had Kung Fu Panda, July had the Dark Knight, uh, Madagascar to escape or escape to Africa. That was in November. Naming rain Tropic Thunder. I'm not. I'm getting there. Marley and Me was in December. Like. Yeah, you're. You're sure? I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna stop the show for. We're skipping over one of the most quotable movies of this year, and that is. One most overrated movie to the 2000. That's for sure. Um, but that's basically any Will Ferrell movie. But we'll we'll get back to that eventually. Wall-E, the, uh, the animated movie event of the of the year of 2008. This this movie follows a, uh, a robot by the name of, uh, Jerry. You know, uh, on a, you know, Earth in the future. I think it was like, 2720, uh, 2805 the year that I think. And he's just basically this little robot that goes around and is, like, compacting garbage into these little cubes and stacking them up on each other. Uh, and he is visited by this, this, uh, this other robot that sent down from, um. This. Like this. This aircraft spaceship. Uh, and her name is Eve, and they, uh, don't want to say they develop a connection, because at the beginning of the movie, like Brandon mentioned, this movie has developed a reputation kind of like the same one that up would get the following year, where a lot of people say that first 15 minutes of up is some of Pixar's best storytelling, and the rest of the movie is just, and the rest of the movie is just fine. Wall-E a lot of people think the first like 40 minutes or so in this movie that take place on Earth before they go on the the spaceship is some of Pixar's best work, and the rest of the movie is just fine. I and the first time I saw this movie, I agreed with those people. I thought that the stuff that and this movie, honestly, for it to be the hit that it was, especially in America, kind of surprising and shows just how much of a cultural beat Pixar was because there is not a lot of dialogue in. There are. It's basically a silent film. Yeah. And this movie plays a lot. Places a lot of roar in its audience because of that. And I originally, when I first saw it, I liked the stuff on Earth more. And then when they get on Earth and or get on the Starship, there's stuff with the humans. I don't really care about that as much. This time around, I kind of just enjoy it all. See, I think the reason I think it was trust in the audience, I think it was it was the artistic flair that they threw in there. And the fact that they relied on the show. Don't tell were you actually had to like, pay attention to everything and not you didn't have dialogue cuz you didn't have sound cues. You were just looking at the animation, which is part of why I think this movie did so well, because it literally was 40 minutes of no dialogue, and just watching all these expressions throughout those 40 minutes and starting with up. There was no dialogue during the first, you know, opening sequence. It was you were just watching the visual reactions and understanding what was happening through those kind of visual cues. And I think that's what Pixar did phenomenally well with this. Until they ended that and went to space and got that talking. Okay, let's talk a little bit about that first 30 minutes, because it's just shown to us that there's this mega corporation, by and large, that you see all over the place, and Wall-E is cleaning things up. He's listening to his or he's watching his or, I guess, watching or listening to his musicals and. Hello, Dolly! Yeah. And he's just he's just doing his thing, collecting things as he's he goes along and you can tell that he's a little bit lonely. And then Eve, uh, comes and Eve is clearly a more technically advanced, uh, robot than he is. Um, but once, she once while he gives her the gift of this plant. She just is basically shut down into pick me up mode. And you see, Wally, I think one of the things that people complain about with this movie is that it tries to get it's a little too cutesy, but I don't know. I just find it endearing. Yeah, I think part of it gets a little cutesy, but also, I don't mind that I was again, I'm with you, Mitchell. I'm a little shocked that audiences liked it, because it is very much like you're just watching Wally's facial expressions and like how he's reacting and his relationship with, like, this cockroach. I just, like, hate you out here for like, 30 minutes. And, you know, that's like the Twinkie and the cockroach, like, goes into it. And so it's like, it's that type of like small detail where I guess it was interesting for the for like a first time viewing, like just watching all the stuff that he like collects and puts away and stuff like that. And how he organizes it too. He, like, gets the spork and he's like, oh, I don't know if it's a spoon or a fork. And he's like, put it in the middle. Like, I find that stuff like humorous and like very like lighthearted, but it definitely has you buy into like, man, I gotta walk in and like, actually watch this movie because there is no, there's no dialogue, like there's nothing going on him reacting to things around him. Um, and I guess you notice very quickly, like his name is Wally because he's building a wall of trash or like, whatever, whatever he's doing. But like, again, it has you buying his name on Wally because he's making a wall. Yeah, he's making a wall. Yeah, that's why he's Wally. Do you know what Wally stands for is he's not. Because there's there's an animated short called Bernie that burns up. So I figured that's why it's called Wally. Wally stands for waste allocation load lifter, Earth class. Oh, well, I figured it was his. He's a robot designed to collect garbage, and he's making balls and put it in the wall. He's putting it in the wall. What do you mean, he's Wally? All right. Trump. Okay. I did not expect you to come out with that, did you? Did you catch what Eve stood for? No, I did, I did not. Extraterrestrial vegetation evaluator. Oh, so basically, go down and see if we can start growing stuff. That's why she randomly finds the plan. It's like she didn't randomly find the plant. Well, he gave it. She found. Did you watch the movie? No, I watched the movie. Calm down. Well, we always have to ask. We never know with you. No, I. That's just not true. I think I've seen, like, maybe like, not one thing. Like, unlike Tommy, who's, like, definitely don't watch any of these movies. No, I've said, I've said, I've seen all I've seen, like, every movie we've ever, like, podcast about. Except maybe like one of these movies. I've never gone out there and been like, I've never broadcasted. I, I remember 100%. How many weeks? What movie it was. You're like, yeah, guys, I didn't watch that. I'm like, wait, what? You gave a rating? No. I. Okay, well, that's not true because I definitely like not watching a movie like that week. But I've seen the movie before I gave it. That's not the same as I never seen the movie before. That's never the same as I've never seen the movie. 15 years ago, 85. I'm like 85. Like 85. I'm like, what are we doing? Know what? What Tommy is, like, legitimately told us. He's never. He doesn't. He? He saw the movie, like, two weeks later. So, like, what are we talking about? Don't put me on blast. Don't put me on blast on this podcast. Anyway, he came to the play now. Yeah. Checking out I think. Yeah, I think, I think when we get to that point and then she goes into the, into the spaceship and then goes up the space again, and then he follows her, I think from the second half of the second half of the movie onward, you can make an argument that it is good, but it is not as good as them on earth with Wally discovering all these things. And yeah, I understand that, but I was really invested. I liked it the whole, the whole like almost like a moral dilemma of. The responsibility we have to go back. Yeah. We've gotten very comfortable here. Everyone has. This is just people's lives at this. Like, there's, like, there's kids in this movie, and I'm like, who's fucking like, there's. You remember during the ad where they were like, oh, well, you can you can bring your grandma too, because we have the hydraulic chairs that you never have to walk. And it's like, but everyone's using this chair. I feel like those, those ads have been running for 250 years. Everyone's using those chairs. Like, what are we talking about? I thought this movie did so well because it also subconsciously served as a massive warning to humanity of, hey, we're being too consumed by technology and and we are failing consumerism. And yeah, we've gotten significantly worse since then. 18 years later, we're failing like 2008, like the whole big. And by Costco, that's when, like Costco, BJ's was like a Costco was really popular. Yeah. And now it's like, that's everywhere. Don't get me wrong, I like the Costco. I like a BA. Like, I mean, who doesn't? But I mean, who does it. But do we need them? Do we need to buy everything like that? Yeah. Oh, this was a Walmart thing. You think? Oh, do you think it was a Walmart? Yeah. Yeah. This this was a Walmart. Yeah. Now, maybe nowadays, because Amazon targets are everywhere. Well, Amazon would be the parallel. Right. That would be the parallel now. Most realistically yes. Amazon. Yeah. You can get anything you want within. But but the underlying two taps on your phone. You know what I mean. Yeah. Consumerism, technology. I mean, you can stop the apocalypse with Amazon. We learned this last summer with Ice Cube. Amazon today. I think you forgot about that. We didn't. You? I tried to burn it out of my brain. Yeah, I did too. I tried to forget about it. Um, I think it's so funny to me that you can, like, make a video in AI, and, like, my dad will do stuff in me, like an AI video, and I'm like, oh, look at you. Just. We're in a drought. You're just wasting water. Let's look at the water. He's like, damn it, dumbass. Like, uh, it's so funny to me, dude. Yeah. No, but I'm jealous of whether or not, you know, we should stick with the, uh, what we're comfortable with. And then there's a little bit of, like, a 2001 A Space Odyssey thing going on with that one robot. Um, which. Come on, Mo some people. Yeah. Uh, no. Auto. Oh, auto. Okay. Yeah. Like the the the the steering. The the wheel. Yeah. And I, I don't know, I like the character of, uh, captain, uh, McCrea. Um, yeah, I do like, I do like. I'm not going to say I don't like the storyline. That's not what I'm getting at. I just think it was way more interesting to see why they like reacting to it. Yeah, and stuff like that. But I do think the storyline is like interesting. Like, don't get me wrong, Mitchell. At the end of the day, I think it's like a good cautionary tale. Again, it's not even a thing about like, the use of automation and the use of robots and the use of everything that like, I mean, spoiler alert, but like, I feel like in some ways are our world is going that direction where it's like, oh yeah, I'll just try this into AI and it will give me something back. And it's like, okay, that's not like like you have to use your brain to, you know, you can't just getting too comfortable. I guess it's a great example of just getting too comfortable automated bubbles that we could just sit in and get driven around in. So that's the day you should be concerned. But I do find it funny that it was advertised as like, oh, if you have people who, like, are elderly and can't walk, then they can. But then everyone started using it. So it was like, what's the point of these bubbles? Like I just, oh my God, it was so funny. I mean, that's in the babies. I'm with you, Mitchell. There were so many babies on this. Fucking time to make these babies. These people aren't getting out of their own hover thingy. What? Who's. Who's who? Who's pregnant for nine months? Just sitting in one of those the whole time. Were they. Were they cloning babies? Was that. Disney withheld the dark scenes of all the other devices that was created to allow this. That's what I'm saying. So that's what I'm thinking. It's like they were like. Release. Release the hover chair. Sex cut of Wall-E. That's what we need to see. We need to see how this happened. Let me take a spin away. Yeah, I need the hover chair. Oh my God. Oh, but, um, when he starts standing up in the music, he's playing in the background. I find that to be quite an entertaining scene. When they were all cheering him on, he was like, my first step ever in like, 18 years. And I'm like, yeah, keep going, keep going. You've got your stuff. I like this movie, I really do. I understand why it's on. I like this movie. What are you graded? I don't wanna give it away. I don't want to give it away. You like? Hey! Hang on. Quick trivia. Oh, oh, we got Tommy trivia. I have one question. Please reach out to the sound designer. Ben Burtt, who voiced Wall-E, also voiced another famous robot in cinematic history. Can you name that robot? Are you telling me not? Don't you dare. I think because I looked I looked at his earlier in the week, but I can't remember what it was. I feel like it was Star Wars related, though. Definitely not. See, it's not C-3po. Is it? No no no no no. There's only one famous R2-d2. There you go. Yeah. He also is famous for dating. He was also famous for doing Darth Vader's breathing in the lightsabers. But R2-d2 is okay, so he's. He's a big sound design guy. Yes. He is. He's he's like, you know, the Howard Shore kind of guy of sound design. Oh, I'm looking at it. It makes a bunch of weird noises. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's the weird noises. Sound design for Lincoln. All right. Who wants to grade it first? I gave it an A 92. Okay, so you were close to an alien? That's close. You were flirting with it. I don't think I'm at an A-plus, but. Hi, Mitchell. Uh, a 97.9. Ooh. So I'm going to be the low. Uh, I thought you might give us an A+ the way you were talking. No, no no, no. I'm at an A 66.09. Um, I did love this movie, and when I eventually do my top ten for 2008, I expect this movie to be on that list. I'd be. I'd be surprised if it wasn't. And I expect it to be. Yeah, but I've already watched. Like, for example, I know it's going to be the highest rated animated movie because like, I've already seen Kung Fu Panda and I enjoy that movie, but I definitely prefer this Kung Fu Panda, and I've seen both before, and I thought it was just like, fine. Um, so I know I saw a clip about both. I saw a clip from bolt where like, I haven't seen bolt in like forever. Um, I do like the, uh, the idiom bolt that he's a dog who doesn't have, like, he doesn't have superpowers, but he thinks he does because he's in a TV show where he has to. It's it's it's kind of the animated Tropic Thunder, right? Right. It's kind of got a little bit of a Truman Show vibe going through it as well. So yeah. Yeah, I do find that aspect of it like, uh, interesting. Mhm. Uh, I gotta say, for an original idea, they kind of crushed it. Like, I, I do like this whole lot. Yeah. This, this era of Pixar was not missing the 2000 for an impeccable period of time for for Pixar. Especially if you overlook the movie car. But other than that, everything. There's nothing. Starter cars on cars you can hate on cars and I'll hate on the whole trilogy. It is a blight. What is wrong with the Trilogy of Cars? I will talk about that when we review the cars trilogy, and trust me, it might be a two hour podcast. Uh, just. I got a lot to say, but we are starting our superhero run next week. Uh, we're going to go through it. Not. We're not. We're not doing all the DC stuff. We're not doing all the Marvel stuff. We're doing all superhero movies in, like we're going through the superhero movies in sequential order. So we're going to start off with, uh, with Superman. The, uh, the the first Christopher Reeve Superman movie. And then we've got Flash Gordon, quarterback, New York Jets. Uh, I, I don't trust the New York Jets quarterback. I don't know. Complete a seven yard out route, let alone save the universe. So we'll see how that goes. Well, uh, then we've got the movies at random. Uh, getting back to The Karate Kid with the Karate Kid part two, and then one of the great movies of 2014, which was a stack year. We've got, uh, Selma, the movie about the, uh, the march in Selma, uh, Martin Luther King Jr. Uh, really, really good movie. Um, and then we're back at it with superhero stuff. We got Superman two and Superman three. So we are going to be in a lot of Superman. Christopher Reeve. Uh, gene Hackman as Lex Luthor. We're going to be watching a lot of that, and I'm excited to do it. I've already seen first Superman. Looking forward to seeing what you guys think about it. Never seen 2 or 3 or, you know. We'll eventually get Superman for the quest for peace. And I know that's a piece of dog shit. So I'm actually really excited that, uh, I've only seen clips, and they are fucking terrible. So I can't wait, folks. That's what you have to look forward to. Goodbye.