7 Pixar Movies Better Than Toy Story 4
5. WALL-E
WALL-E manages to connect with an audience in ways that many films with ten times more dialogue often struggle to, proving that sometimes less is more. It also had the unenviable task of making a grey, metal, trash dispensing robot adorable. A challenge it knocks out of the park.
On the surface WALL-E is a sweet love story, but it offers up so much more. Beneath that surface is one of the darker Pixar films ever released, at least in terms of the themes and dystopian future that it represents. In many ways, much like the best sci-fi stories, WALL-E acts as a social commentary and could be taken as an environmental allegory on waste, consumerism and even obesity.
The heart-tugging, unlikely relationship between WALL-E and EVE makes all of the preachier subtext a lot more palatable in ways that some of the existential pondering in Toy Story 4 isn't. Though the questions Toy Story 4 asks are certainly interesting, it lacks subtlety in asking them, with some of the deeper meanings forced to the forefront rather than simmering in the background.