Buzz: "In a futuristic world, human beings have destroyed Earth and evacuated the planet, leaving the cleanup to an army of robots they've programmed to do their dirty work. Due to a mishap, the dutiful WALL-E is the only one left. But with the arrival of a female probe named EVE, the monotony of WALL-E's existence is broken -- and he experiences love for the first time"
LOVED this movie. Loved. Yes, it had a couple capital-M Messages, other than the usual eat-your-veggies and respect-your-parents stuff, but that doesn't bother me any. It's a kids movie, right?
As always, with Pixar films, the animation was flawless (and impressive beyond belief -- no detail, no texture left unattended), and the story is plenty interesting to hold grown-ups' interest as well. It's not a happy cheery story (what with the post-apocalyptic theme), but it's told in a generous, faith-in-humanity sort of way that inexplicably inspires some hope for the future of the inhabitants of Wall-E's world.
Some fun little bits: I particularly loved the use of the film of "Hello, Dolly" throughout (presumably just one videotape that survived, and Wall-E found in his work?), as it's also a sweet, hopeful sort of story of venturing out into the bigger world to find love. Also loved the sort-of-inside Mac jokes, too: Wall-E's happy-sound upon full solar charge is the mac startup noise, and Otto's voice is very reminiscent of the Mac's speech voice.
9/3
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