WALL.E Film Review - 13/7/08

Visually stunning with fantastic landscapes and photo realistic stylizations Pixar's astonishing creativity literally goes stratospheric with this tale of a cleaning robot stuck on Earth to clean up the mess left behind after the human race has departed. Several hundred years later a robot probe returns and this kick-starts the whole adventure. Unfortunately with the large gap without dialogue had me bored within about 20 minutes and to be perfectly honest it just isn't that funny. I was more amused by all the trailers run for "WALL.E" than the actual film itself! Technically it is brilliant but I found it very sterile. Even the villain of the piece AUTO is played by a text-to-speech program called MacIn Talk and has obvious overtones of HAL from "2001" with a measure of Maximilian from Disney's "The Black Hole". The story pushes a very good message though - Humans are slobs and we are destroying the planet with multi-national corporations helping. Still along with Pixar's recent "Ratatouille" this film story-wise did not move me - No laughs and no emotion.

WALL.E the Earth's last cleaning robot meets a robot probe called EVE and after returning to the spaceship AXIOM fights off a horde of robots with the help of another group of robots with their own odd traits. Helping overthrow AUTO the ship's pilot they help a group of humans to return to Earth to start anew.