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Ranked #53
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WALL-E, short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class, is the last robot left on Earth. He spends his days tidying up the planet, one piece of garbage at a time. But during 700 years, WALL-E has developed a personality, and he's more than a little lonely. Then he spots EVE, a sleek and shapely probe sent back to Earth on a scanning mission. Smitten WALL-E embarks on his greatest adventure yet when he follows EVE across the galaxy.
--IMDb
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Review by Crispy
Added: December 11, 2009
I've said it before on here, but some parts of me never grew up and I never lost my love of cartoons; and it just so happens that Disney has put out some quality ones. The bar was kept just as high when they teamed up with Pixar and moved into the realm of 3-D. With that said, I was insanely excited to see Wall-E, and it definitely didn't disappoint.
In the year 2105, planet Earth is completely abandoned, covered in garbage, and incapable of sustaining any life whatsoever (except the cockroaches of course). It seems that a single mega-corporation called Buy 'N Large (BNL) has built large starships and moved the entire population off planet, leaving behind thousands of robotic trash compactors called WALL-Es (Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Earth Class) to clean up the mess. It seems that something hasn't gone quite according to plan, since there's only one WALL-E left, who has kept himself going by salvaging parts off the other units. Over the years, it's programming has become sentient, creating a childlike mentality and it now spends it's time collecting knick knacks, building huge skyscrapers out of bricks of debris, and most of all, trying to ignore the loneliness. One day, after charging his batteries via solar panels, he chases down a spaceship that lands on Earth and sees a highly advanced robot who sets off scanning everything she can find, searching for something. WALL-E is instantly smitten with her, but his attempts at a greeting are only met with a few blasts from her plasma cannon. Eventually however, she warms up to him, and introduces herself as EVE. WALL-E takes her back to his home to show her his prized collection, but when she sees a small weed he found the day before, it's obvious that's what she's been searching for. She pulls the plant inside her chassis and shuts down until the ship returns and takes her away. There's no way WALL-E is going to lose the closest thing to a friend he has, so he grabs onto the hull of the ship and rides it to the Axiom, BNL's starship. Naturally, throwing a robot like WALL-E into a brand new environment is going to have some interesting results.
What's truly amazing about this movie is that it's a love story where almost every indicator of feelings has been removed from the characters, yet it's still so effective. Neither of the robots talk very much, which just leaves body language, but both their bodies are extremely limited in mobility. Neither robot has legs, elbows, or mouths, which must have made conveying any sort of emotion a severe pain in the ass, but they nailed it. In fact, it actually helps the movie in a lot of ways, as it strips away all the fluff and we're left with a back-to-basics love story. With robots. A back-to-basics love story that's also pretty damned hilarious, mostly thanks to our titular character. Using a mixture of slapstick (WALL-E is quite accident prone) and childish mischief, the little bot kept me in stitches. Especially when he encounters M-O, an obsessive compulsive janitorial bot that WALL-E just can't help himself but antagonize.
Another thing I loved about this movie was all the social commentary throughout this movie, or rather, how it was handled. The world covered in garbage and run by a single corporation, people too fat to move and too completely obsessed with their computers to notice the world around them, especially in this futuristic setting, all speaks volumes of what our film makers think of the status quo, but none of this is shoved down our throats. Instead of being pretentious and preachy, it barely acknowledges it at all, and it's all just there in the background while WALL-E and EVE are doing their thing.
As per Pixar tradition, WALL-E was preceded by an animated short. On the DVD, it's been moved to the special features. Presto is about a magician's bunny who is absolutely starving and refuses to cooperate until it is fed a carrot. Hilarity ensues. It was definitely funny, but the bonus short, BURN-E blew it away. The film follows its titular character in its duty as a repair droid to fix one of the lamps outside the Axiom. It plays off the main film pretty heavily, so make sure you watch that before firing this one up, as spoilers run heavy.
I can't think of a single thing I didn't like about this movie. It's a back to basics love story that's absolutely hysterical and masters social commentary the way it's supposed to be done. Definitely worth hunting down. 10/10.
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#1:
BuryMeAlive
- added December 16, 2009 at 1:48pm
A Johnny 5 (from Short Circuit) rip-off by Disney,
no thanks...
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#2:
Crispy
- added December 16, 2009 at 2:00pm
Except other than a coincidental similarity
between the way they look, the two have nothing to
do with each other.
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#3:
BuryMeAlive
- added December 18, 2009 at 7:01am
Yeah, 'coincidental' just like "The Lion
King" was to "Kimba The White
Lion"...
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#4:
Crispy
- added December 18, 2009 at 8:22am
It was a robot that moved around with tank treads
and had a square head. You're seriously going to
sit there and tell me that Johnny 5 wrote that
book? At this stage in the game, that's as much a
'rip off' of Short Circuit as just saying
"they both had robots".
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#5:
BuryMeAlive
- added December 18, 2009 at 12:58pm
I do believe that the source and clear inspiration
should get some credit, yes, I do...
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#6:
Lucid Dreams
- added December 18, 2009 at 2:09pm
I thought the movie was great. 10/10
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#7:
Crispy
- added January 5, 2010 at 3:17pm
"Source". Again, laughable.
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#8:
Rest Easy Soul
- added January 24, 2010 at 8:08pm
No dialogue until almost half way in, the
characters were obviously created to simply be
cute as well as annoying (WWWAAAAAALLLLLLL
EEEEEE)
I will give it great visuals
and an okay score but the weakest Pixar movie IMO.
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#9:
johannesfaust
- added February 15, 2010 at 10:09am
it´s a great story, kinda based on how the
over consumption has destroyed the f*** world, how
a robot gives humanity back to human
beings...10/10
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