Titan Wall-E

Are our memories so short that a movie like "Wall-E" can come out only eight years after a movie like "Titan A.E."? It's one thing when an animated movie makes a visual tribute to a non-animated movie (as in "Wall-E"'s reference to the movie "Titanic" when the people slide down the platform), but when the storyline is so similar I don't see a point in remaking it. Besides, I thought that "Titan A.E." was much more compelling, humorous, and uplifting.

Let's draw similarities...
1. Animation: this opened up possibilities that wouldn't have otherwise been feasible. Then again, Wall-E didn't take full advantage of these other than in some space scenes, which have been demonstrated possible by the "Star Wars" series. Besides, humans weren't shown as grotesquely fat enough to need to be animated; then again, I guess it would be more expensive to hire a bunch of 300 lbs + actors than to simply animate them. In other words, Wall-E could have been done without animation...whereas Titan A.E. made new creatures that would have been much more difficult without animation.
2. Critique of modern society: "Titan A.E." criticizes endless/needless war, while "Wall-E" is a critique of consumerism and the lack of sustainability. Both movies show Earth's residents vacating like cowards.
3. Love between a bad-ass female and a male who originally fears/hates her. SO original.
4. A new beginning. The ending depicted by Wall-E was slightly more realistic; it didn't happen all at once, but where on Earth (haha) did they get that endless supply of seeds?

I love Pixar...but they have definitely had better films. If you saw the short film in the beginning, though, I thought that was much more enjoyable than the feature, so if you can find that without seeing the movie you might want to do that. And watch "Titan A.E." if you haven't seen it!