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Mon, 07 Jul 2008

Movie Review: Wall·E
Title:Wall·E (2008)
Rating:7/10

We traveled as a family downtown this afternoon to catch the 4:45pm showing of Wall·E at the magnificent Seattle Cinerama. The kids have been looking forward to seeing the movie for a few months (I downloaded the Wall·E trailers off the PlayStation Store as soon as they were posted and the kids have been watching them ever since... imitating the robot's unique pronunciation of his own name).

The movie is very good, not Pixar's best (The Incredibles still tops my Pixar list), but far better than last year's Ratatouille (which I just noticed I never bothered to even provide a review for... and I'm usually very thorough about such things). For comparison, this might help:

    The Incredibles... 9.01/10
    Monsters Inc...... 9/10
    Toy Story......... 8/10
    Toy Story 2....... 8/10
    Wall·E............ 7/10
    Cars.............. 6/10
    Finding Nemo...... 6/10
    Ratatouille....... 5/10
    A Bug's Life...... 5/10

Wall·E is a robot, the sole inhabitant remaining on a future planet Earth. Earth has been abandoned because of its filthy state and a legion of Wall·E trash compacting robots were left behind to clean up the joint. Only one Wall·E robot remains operational. Wall·E is joined by a visiting robot "EVE" who is investigating Earth's re-inhabitability. Wall·E is instantly smitten and stows away on EVE's spaceship back to the "Axiom", a space-bound cruise ship where the remainder of the human race now lives. At the center of the movie is a plant seedling that Wall·E finds during his trash cleanup duties on Earth and then gives to EVE as a token of his affection.

There isn't much to the plot and very little dialog to speak of (pun intended). Yet, Wall·E accomplishes quite a bit with very little. The character Wall·E has an "ET"-like charm that endears himself to the audience. The interaction and playfulness between Wall·E and EVE is quite touching at times. When the movie is developing the relationship between the two robots, the film works very well. The "human" characters and plot didn't work as well and although the two plot lines were necessarily symbiotic (to advance each other), they didn't enmesh particularly well. In other words, Wall·E feels like two movies... one that was really good (the robot love story), and one that was just so-so (the humans returning to Earth).

Summary: Worth the dollars to see it on the big screen.

:: Posted by rus on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:20 pm
:: Filed under /reviews/movies

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