[Eugene]

The story ended up being incredibly bleak. Every character other than Wall-E and Eve was forgettable, and even they were handcuffed with non-speaking roles. There's only so much you can get out of "Waaaaaalleeeee" and "Eeeeeeve" repeated 1000x throughout a film.

Up on the other hand, if you actually read about it...there's a real plot to it that gets revealed in the first moments of the movie.