'Wanted' and 'Wall-E'

How does one begin?

You begin with two movies that could not possibly be any more different, and you compare the difference between the two. That being said let's proceded procedurally and take this movies apart to their roots.

Wall-E: a film for the ages. Pixar's age-old time again and again mantra is that they are not creating anything new, they are simply reinventing the wheel. It's said that in the creation of Toy Story the Pixar animators had no real film training, no idea that they were not supposed to do it, no idea of the obstacles that faced them. And for that measure they simply did as they wanted, and were rewarded handsomely.

Since then they've mostly told simple stories, returning time again and again to the old movie tropes, never innovating, but breaking boundaries at every interval in terms of what an animated could be. Walt Disney once championed this standard, before his company caved into maintaining a conservative-friendly legacy and began opting for pablum over content. With that introduction, we have Wall-E, with Pixar once again drawing on the old cinematic standards, updating them and repurposing them for a modern audience.