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Sesame Seed 
Pixar have outdone themselves with the first twenty minutes of this film. They came incredibly close to making it too cutesy but there is a human quality to it. Here we have a little robot that is imitating love. He falls for Eve not on the basis of her personality (or physical appearance), but on the sole fact that he wants to imitate love. He wants to abolish his loneliness. I think it says a lot about love. We are all little robots with the same urge. Our nature is to need and be needed by others like us. We are all materialistic to a degree and amuse ourselves with trash. Wall-E literally does the same. The film spirals back into children's domain once the robots orbit out into space and the human characters are introduced but even the formulaic ending could not ruin the twenty minutes of movie magic. I was watering up. BTW the short before the film is excellent.
I agree that the first half is really good, but the rest of the movie works well too, and has a strong message. I this future, humans concern themselves with trivial distractions, while there is beauty going on right in front of their faces, if only they'd turn off their computer screen. The distractions and luxuries of their world have also completely ruined their physical bodies, which is a worthwhile message and warning for more than just children, as over 60% of people in Australia, the UK and USA are overweight or obese.
Once you meet the humans the contrast between Wall-Es humanity and the humans robotic behavior becomes apparent.
I really liked the ending. Both the almost ending, and the real ending.