WALL-E movie review

Written by: Plus1 on Sun, Jun 29, 2008

Pixar knows how to deliver and they didn’t miss one step when it comes to WALL-E. This love story disguised as a sci-fi/animated movie delivers the laughs and the romance for the whole family to enjoy.

Earth has been abandoned for 700 years as the planet was consumed with waste from the materialistic mentality brought on by the giant corporation Buy N Large. A plan was put in place for the population of Earth to escape the planet and come back when life was able to be sustained. In the meantime the Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class robots would clean the planet allowing mankind to come back to Earth. After 700 years, only one robot was still doing this job…WALL-E.

WALL-E lives a simple life with his pet cockroach. He gets up in the morning and charges up his solar battery. He goes to work and cleans the trash from the cities. He then goes home and studies human life as he watches the movie “My Fair Lady.” Things are normal for WALL-E until one day when a rocket lands on Earth. This rocket contains EVE, a probe droid sent to Earth to look for any signs of sustained life that if found, will signal that the population can return to their home planet.

With that I bring back the GOOD, the BAD, and the GEEKY:

The GOOD:

Animation from PIXAR is always breathtaking; this one is above all of the previous entries.
The story is a fun family movie that all will enjoy; parents will have to explain the ending to the kids as they won’t understand the one sad scene in the movie.
For a movie that has no dialogue for the first 15 minutes, this movie is still able to keep the audience glued to the story and character movement.
This is the first PIXAR movie that worked some live action into the CGI animation; Fred Willard plays the president of the Buy N Large corporation.

The BAD:

The story likes to push the fact that Humankind is getting fat and lazy with their materialistic nature and the “BUY N LARGE” corporation that resembles the current Costco, BJ’s, and Sam’s Club stores.
The last scene in the movie may be too much for the kids and some adults; my wife was crying by this scene as it will draw at your emotional strings; parents will be trying to explain this to the younger children.

The GEEKY:

John Ratzenberger is back to reprise a role in a PIXAR movie.
When WALL-E’s solar battery is fully charged he makes the Apple MAC computer startup sound.

This movie is beautiful and is a must see on the big screen. WALL-E is rated G and distributed by Disney.