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House review of Wall-e (2008)

It almost seems that Disney Pixar can’t do anything wrong these days, and here they have created yet another wonderful film that is on par with the Incredibles. The film combines sadness with jubilation and triumph and will have you getting emotionally attached to the protagonist – yeah I know, it’s a robot! Whilst predominantly aimed at the younger audience (to which this film will be exceptionally received, I’m certain of that) the film has something for everyone and really should be seen, if not for the storyline, but for the wonderful skilled animation.

Wall-e (which stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) roams the barren wasteland of a desolate earth circa 2700 carrying out the mundane and futile instructions programmed in his limited capacity circuit board – to find, gather and compact land waste before stacking it nowhere in particular (just like one of those car crushers that the car tax people are threatening us English with nowadays!). Underneath the cartoon animation is a serious stab at modern day’s society wastefulness and over consumption and is a bit of a wake-up call.

Day after day is the same for lonely Wall-e until one day, whilst compacting random things, a shiny white new robot is teleported down from a space ship. Overcoming his obvious initial fear, Wall-e takes quite a liking to the state of the art ‘I-Mac’ series robot and pursues ‘Eva’ relentlessly despite the obvious hostility from the missiled-up trigger happy ‘bot.

Thereafter develops a story of love, and as Eva is summoned back to her mother ship, Wall-e bravely follows into the unknown. It soon becomes apparent that the destination is the ‘Axiom’, a spacecraft holding holiday makers from Earth on a ‘5 year cruise’ that has drastically overrun its duration due to the evacuation of the desolate wasteland aka Earth from which Eva and Wall-e have both come from.

Enter stage a load of fat and overweight passengers, waited on hand and foot by automatic servants, who have been floating (literally) around for the last few decades. Change is due, and the change must happen immediately.

The animation is second to none and reminiscent of Monsters Inc. Some critics have mentioned that the plot may be a little too sophisticated for children and that they will be lost – this is not the case in my eyes. Beneath all the pot shots about modern day society, you have a love story combined with one of teamwork and triumph that are pitched at the correct altitude for the average kid.

Criticisms for me are that the opening scene in the baron wasteland felt quite slow, although in retrospect it is a wonderful film opener. The fact you don’t hear a human voice until 45 minutes into the film is neither here nor there, but the repetition of ‘Wall-e’ in a strange robotic tone gets closer to overbearing by the time the film ends.

All in all though, you have to give Pixar credit for this film. The kids will love it and the adults will marvel in the creative skill. This isn’t your average laugh a minute animation that I was expecting; it is deeper than that, and In my opinion is all the better for it – even If they did completely copy Johnny 5!

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Film Rating: 6.7/10 (18 votes cast)

Reviewed by Paul
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