Andrew Stanton’s wondrous little film, Wall-E, manages to provide a sly social commentary on our current love of all things computer-related to the detriment of both our environment and health. Wall-E is the lone robot left on an abandoned earth who continues his task of collecting and compacting trash until the day Eve, a probe robot searching for life on the planet, arrives. Wall-E falls in love with Eve and ends up following her into space and on to her mother ship. There, decedents from Earth live, fed a constant stream of video-messaging, on sofa chairs that convey them about the spacecraft. Seems we are destined to become Weebles in our future and that truth is the film’s most brilliant moment. When the renegade main computer on the mother ship goes H-A-L, Wall-E steps in and saves the day and the love of his life. Wall-E is a film for the ages whose beauty rests in its gorgeous Pixar animation and its ability to tell such a profound story with so few words.
My rating 9 out of 10
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