Wall-E

Wall-E: It really seems like the team at Pixar can’t make a bad movie. Their latest offering, Wall-E may just be the best of the bunch. At its core, Wall-E is a simple and innocent love story. The movie is set about 700 years in the future when mankind has left Earth because the planet has become overrun with their own garbage. Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Earth Class) is the only robot still working to clean up the planet until another robot named EVE arrives on her own mission. Wall-E may not know exactly what EVE is trying to discover, but that does not stop him from making a discovery himself….love! The adventure then blasts off to space where we see how the human race has evolved, or really how they have un-evolved. The film works on multiple levels. Besides the love story, it also serves as a good sci-fi story and all the while is extremely amusing from start to finish. Neither of the lead robots has much dialogue so much of the storytelling and comedy is done in visuals and is reminiscent of the great Chaplin/Keats silent films. Meanwhile, the animation is done so well that you almost forget you are watching an animated movie – this is especially true for the 1st half of the picture. It is also the 1st half of the movie that reels the viewer in and makes you care so much for Wall-E and EVE. It is a film that gets the label “A movie for the whole family”. While this is mainly true, I do not think it is for younger children as I am not sure it will hold their attention. But anyone over the age of 5 will agree, Wall-E is one of the year’s best!

Ry's Rating: A-

If this movie had Parents they would be: 2001: A Space Odyssey & The Little Mermaid

With a runtime of 107 minutes

This film is rated G