PLOT: The year is 2700. WALL•E, a robot, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will discover that he was made to do more.
THE GOOD: Animation.
WALL•E is a gorgeous film. Definitely the best animation work that
Pixar has done yet. The polluted Earth was incredibly detailed (
did you see Micky?), space never looked more beautiful, and on board the Axiom brought back memories of the factory in
Monsters, Inc. The scenes with no dialogue were extensive and many and I am pleased to say that they were very fun to watch. To me, it's like watching old
Micky Mouse cartoons before the cute little guy found that voice of his. I was able to watch WALL•E move and interact with everything and know exactly what he was thinking or saying.

Main character development. WALL•E and EVE are very interesting characters. Watching WALL•E go through his daily routine of work was very entertaining. Watching EVE's personality go from your typical robot to a more open and free being was a joy.
Story. The story is engaging and incredibly entertaining. I loved watching WALL•E's journey from his everyday job to trying to save the human race. Fantastically creative and thoughtful.
Romance. I didn't think that I would buy the whole robots falling in love thing, but the way
Andrew Stanton presented it was just captivating. Deep down, that's all the movie is really about.
THE BAD: Secondary character development. I'm mainly talking about the humans and the malfunctioning robots here. I think the movie quickly turned from being about WALL•E to being about the humans. They had a really good thing going for them before boarding the Axiom. And at first I liked the use of live-action material, but thought it was used a little too much. The commercial for the Axiom was cool, but all of the
Hello, Dolly stuff and the stuff with
Fred Willard was too far. They ended up going back to that stuff way too many times, and instead of the pay-off being a sweet reminder, it just felt like getting hit over the head again and again.
Antagonist. Who is the protagonist? That's easy, it's WALL•E. Who is the antagonist? Well... hmmm... that's a little harder. *breaks through the smoke and fog* Oh... big corporations. It's not that I want one corporation to take over the world, or that I think one company can run the entire nation properly. I just don't like how that was the antagonist. I think it was pretty weak.
THE END: I built up my expectations so high and am so pleased that WALL•E exceeded them. The message behind the film is outweighed by the romantic story.
Todd McCarthy of Variety said that the message was presented with a lightness of touch that granted the viewer the ability to accept or ignore the message. I agree. They could have really overdone it with the environmentalism and consumerism and I'm glad that the film had an optimistic ending. Besides, isn't it a bit silly for a Disney film to be anti-consumerist? I don't think WALL•E is my favorite Pixar film, but it's definitely in the top three (possible future
list?). Go watch... nay, go
experience this film today!
DISCUSS: What did you think of WALL•E? What did you get out of its message? How would you rank this next to other Pixar films, or other CGI movies? Did you catch any of the
Easter eggs?