We finally made it to see Wall-E (2008). I'd heard reviews raving about it, but frankly this was even more enjoyable than I had anticipated.Wall-E is a sweet and totally unexpected love story between Wall-E, a Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class who is the last robot functioning on Earth, and EVE (Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Examiner), a probe sent to see if the Earth is recovering from its complete and total environmental collapse. (The movie is set a few hundred years after humans have had to abandon Earth to live on a big star cruiser.)
Despite the quietly persistent environmental doomsday message, this isn't a completely dystopian take on the future. Rather, it is chock full of love, hope, and dreams. Sure, some of these dreams are totally unrealistic -- Wall-E's notion of romantic love comes from a Hello, Dolly video tape and the starship captain's idea of Earth that he has gleaned from the ship's computer includes the notion that you can grow such things as pizza plants -- but they are heart-warming, nonetheless. There is an undercurrent and backstory that is horrifying, yet in the foreground there is so much fun and optimism, its quite digestable without being diluted.
Pixar fans, we are, and Wall-E did not disappoint. And I say without reservation that this is a notch up from Ratatouille.
While of course there are all kinds of great gadgets in this, I was particularly charmed by little M-O (Microbe Obliterator), who rolls around following foreign contaminant Wall-E, cleaning his tracks up with his "mono-rotational scrubbing roller." I've got to find me one of those...
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Should we see it in the theatre? Doc has heard much about the hat tip to Charlie Chaplin, and he thinks it will be grand.
Yes! You must go! To the theater!!!
(Although I still have the stupid song from Hello, Dolly in my head but I don't know the words...)
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