Movie Review: Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Earth-class) (2008)

!!! WARNING: This review may contain spoilers !!!

Review on the movie Wall-E by Pixar. A heartwarming and well written animated film for the masses. Please note that this review contains plot spoilers. Click on the below link to read more.

OVERALL: 9/10
Plot: 8.5/10
Cinematography: 9/10
Entertainment value: 9.5/10
Number of times I looked at my watch: 0
Movie to wait for DVD: No
Rewatchability: Yes
Movie to purchase: Yes

Pixar, you’ve done it again!  Somehow you have made cartoon inanimate objects give the feeling of emotion, heart, love and happiness all in one rendered sophistication.  With little dialogue involved in the movie, it allowed for charming display inventive creativism that captivated audiences with wonderful humourous bits.  The movie was harmouious, logical, and and filled many gaps that often films tend not to do. 

The premise of this movie is brilliant.  Sci-fi with an animated twist.  The movie starts from a barren wasteland of human trash, a little overzealous hardworking robot compacting garbage stacking each compacted square to look like a city of skyscrapers.  At this point, 2 minutes into the tale, I was amazed and fully entrenched into the movie.  The story is takes place in the far future where humans have completely buried Earth with filth and shipped off into space to live a life of ‘luxury’ aboard a space vessel. 

Wall-E has a ‘home’ tucked away where there is a place for all of his collection of unique items found while compacting trash.  In his home, he had made a life for himself with toys, a lonely video tape, rubix cube, and different parts so he can fix his aging self up when needed.  One of my favourite parts of the movie is when Wall-E goes back to his home and noticably there was a collection of plastic spoons and a collection of plastic forks.  Somehow in his adventures, he had found a plastic spork.  He looks back and forth in both collections to see where the spork would fit and ends up placing it inbetween the two collections of plastic utensils.  I had laughed uproarously at this portion of the film. 

Wall-E meets a futurist robot named EVE, programmed to look for plant life on Earth whom develops an attaction with each other.  When Wall-E notices that EVE was in a catatonic state, Wall-E took care of her, brought her on tire rides down the sludge rigers and kept her dry in the rain.  EVE had to return back to the vessel which Wall-E followed holding on to the side of the spaceship. 

The cinematography was AMAZING and even more surprising it’s completely rendered.  The camera work, lighting and shading in itself was just a brilliant display of skills and care for the film.  I was just thrilled by the amount of thought involved.  This movie made me laugh hystarically, feel sad, cry and feel absolutely thrilled all at the same time.  A movie made for all masses.

The worst part of this movie — it was targetted very much with the “Green” theme in mind.  Very market driven in that respect.  To some, it was a dig at human form and a slant at how we currently live our lives.  The over emphasis on obese humans chatting virtually in floating recliners.  The need for fast food in cups and a culture completely based brainwashing by large corporations.  As well, there were a few subtle but obvious references to Apple in the movie.  A little disappointed that the studio had included such propaganda in the movie — or forced to add such marketing. 

Overall, the movie was good, it was heartwarming, hilarious and cute.  A movie suited for kids and adults alike.  A movie that you could easily own and enjoy over and over again without ever getting tired of watching it.  One of the best movies I’ve seen this year by far, granted, there hasn’t been any competition in this genre as of yet.  My recommendation is rush out and see it!