00s Movie Review - Wall-E

Director: Andrew Stanton
Genre: Animation/ Family/ Adventure
Runtime: 98 minutes
Year: 2008
Starring: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Carlin, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Sigourney Weaver

Description: In the distant future, a small waster-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.  

Review: Before “Wall-E”, Pixar brought us “Ratatouille” and topped animation with visuals and substance. And “Wall-E” manages to stay at that level. In an ode to the science fiction genre, director Andrew Stanton takes the audience to a new world, yet also familiar. “Wall-E” also criticizes the modern lifestyle on certain aspects.
Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) is a small waste collecting robot in a far future. Seven hundred years earlier all people left Earth, which became so polluted it made living impossible. Wall-E was left behind and has been cleaning the planet ever since. He survived because of music from “Hello, Dolly”, his friendship with a cockroach, his hording hobby and repairing things. Wall-E’s life is shown in the first twenty minutes, which contains no dialogue whatsoever, at least not in spoken word. This makes “Wall-E” an unique Pixar animation.
One day Wall-E is visit by EVE, an advanced ‘female’ robot searching for any living organism on planet Earth. Wall-E falls in love and in a short time he becomes the most innocent and cute ‘stalker’ of the universe. EVE is focused on her mission, but eventually accepts Wall-E’s companionship. When Wall-E travels with EVE, he finds out what has become of mankind.
“Wall-E” is endearing and funny, but also has a more heavy theme. Where we are warned for the consequences of how dependent we are on technology these days. This messade isn’t forced on you though.
Of course the visuals are amazing, the humor is great and the entire film is so touching. The total film is entertaining for the entire family and is one of the most beautiful Pixar movie experiences.

Rating: 4,5/ 5