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WALL-E
2008
The year is 2700 and the Earth is polluted, barren and exhausted. Wall-E is the last of a group of clean-up robots, sent to restore the Earth by lifting and compressing the endless quantities of rubbish left behind by a human race that has withdrawn to the safety of space. Wall-E spends every day doing what he was made for .. Read more
| Starring | Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin, Ben Burtt |
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| Director | Andrew Stanton |
| Run time | 95 mins |
| Genres | Animated, Audio Descriptive, Children, Family, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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Currently ranked at number 19 in the Internet Movie Database list of the top 250 films ever made, WALL-E arrives on our shores riding a wave of rave reviews and box office success. No mean... read more »
- LOVEFiLM
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171 out of 172 people found this review helpful
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Directive Completed - Mission Successful!
Let's get it out of the way then: Wall-E is absolutely wonderful. Forget the 'Short Circuit' and 'ET' referencing. Go and watch this film and see it for what it is: something unique.
So Wall-E has finally arrived, after much hype and after having been in the Pixar pipeline since they first set out on their animation adventures. Always sceptical of 'the next big thing', I was surprised to find myself quite willingly swept up (ahem...) by this unconventionally cute waste disposal robot's tidal preliminaries.
And this is where Pixar get there first lot of brownie points from me. In Wall-E they have created this adorable character, yet the film does by no means rely on 'cute' or 'giggle' factor. Do not get me wrong, there are laughs, chuckles, sighs, sniggers, and aww's galore. This, however, is in my opinion the least 'kiddy' movie Pixar have yet produced.
The opening scenes are awe inspiring and set the tone. Earth is totally mounted in waste, desolate and abandoned- a Dystopia. Sweeping glides over an American futuristic city show only piles and piles of garbage, in places cubed and stacked up by the only moving thing in sight: Wall-E. Look closer and you get to meet his little sidekick, a cockroach that follows Wall-E around and lives with him. Yes, it is adorable, watching a robot pile up tons of our left over rubbish (human kind has long since escaped the planet), but taking the time to collect a few souvenirs (Rubik's cube, plastic spoons, video tapes of old fashioned musical movies). But with Wall-E switching on in the mornings, grumpy and sleepy before he goes to work, he is so very human like and yet not- down to the fact that he appreciates the 'little things' and is a true romantic.
Enter Eve, the 'female' Robot sent to Earth on a 'secrete directive'- and Wall-E's love object to be.
What follows is a blend of an estranged love story and rescue mission, any further details might spoil the story, so I will behave.
The ingredients that will make Wall-E superior to other Pixar movies (and indeed films in general) are the absence of dialogue for a major part of the film. Clicks, whirls, electronic words maybe, but no snappy one-liners to keep you on board. Just a visual fest and details that are masterful and a characterisation of Wall-E and Eve that is so touching in places, it will melt even the biggest cynic.
When the humans do enter, they are all but props- and just another reminder of the question: Is this what you want your future to be like?
Wall-E is a masterpiece and deserves all the credit it will get.
SEE THIS IF YOU LIKED
* Toy Story
* 2001 A Space Odyssee
* Finding Nemo
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- hunkydomste from Liverpool
- Posted 18 Jul 2008 17:27
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
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Oodles and oodles of Pathos
The three stars are for the animation,which as usual with Disney/Pixar is peerless.The three stars are also for the first half of the film,where the depiction of a lone rubbish collecting robot on a desolate future Earth is both haunting and sombre. The three stars are not for the second half of the film,which for me was a cringe-inducing,wet hankerchief of forced pathos and sentimentality, by the end I was wondering if this could possibly be the same company who brought us Toy Story1/2,The Incredibles,
Finding Nemo etc,etc. Because although this a Disney/Pixar co-production,I see more old style Walt Disney cheese than the usual cutting edge Pixar.The gushing reviews this film has received have baffled me,did I see the same movie? Everything is building nicely until Wall-E and his new robot friend Eve set foot onto a spaceship,before this no character has any dialogue. Maybe thats the problem,the script,and therefore the plot.because what starts out as a poignant,Twilight Zone style fable winds up being crass arcade game style tat. The 'Robinson Crusoe' style opening is worth the entrance fee alone,it's
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