WALL-E

Location – Cineleisure

Food – Absolutely Nothing

After having weeks and weeks of mind numbing, action splitting, body aching, dragon breathing, car exploding action and fun filled adventures, its time to slow everything down with a Walt Disney Animated Feature courtesy of Pixar. Once you hear the opening of any Disney film (“when you wish upon a star”) you’re automatically transported to a world of make believe with endless joy and fun. There’s always something magical about Walt Disney films as it brings out the child in most of us. Is this latest instalment worth our magical time or not?

Rubbish game from the 80’s

The movie revolves around a robot named Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Earth-class) who by the looks of it is the last remaining robot on Earth. Few 100 years into the future, Earth is in a complete mess and is littered with rubbish. Mankind has decided to go into space while these Wall-E robots start the massive cleanup operation. In the first few opening scenes, we see our robot hero single handily clean up all the garbage that is lying around. He is completely alone (he does have a pet cockroach though) and goes about his daily job diligently day after day. The fun starts however when he starts to fancy a robot named Eve (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) that lands on Earth in search of something deemed classified.

Getting to 3rd base was always going to be difficult

Wall-E pushes the boundaries in terms of animation as well as social humour interaction (is there such a thing?). As there is very little dialogue involved, the bulk of the humour comes from Wall-E’s interaction with his surroundings. This is the same type of humour that you can probably get from a Mr Bean boxset. There really doesn’t need to be any dialogue for slapstick and visual humour. In that sense, I’m pretty sure most people would enjoy this movie.

Every thug needs a lady

From watching his favourite movie to staring at the sky, we start to feel more compelled to follow Wall-E’s journey into the unknown as the movie progresses. After a while, we start to develop a soft spot to Wall-E’s situation, in the sense that nobody really wants to be alone. In some respect, it is almost a naïve and youthful way to how most people view love and social acceptance. Cue Aww machine now. Awwww.

Is it any better than previous Pixar movies? It might not be able to surpass Finding Nemo or Ratatouille in terms of humour and story telling, however the lovable character that is Wall-E is a good enough reason for watching this movie. This robot is probably more memorable and a lot more charming compared to a lot of other Disney characters in recent time.

Ratings – 3.5/5

Is kinda like – Johnny 5 from Short Circuit. Remember that film?