If every studio had the quality control guidelines they must have at Pixar, there would be alot less movies but what we'd get would be fantastic. "Wall-E" is yet another triumph by the team, spearheaded by Andrew Stanton, a resident of almost every Pixar film made so far.
We open with 'a day in the life of Wall-E as he cleans the still filthy planet Earth. He finds trinkets leftover from human civilization, crushing most of it into towering piles of cubes, keeping the bits that he likes. He keeps all his prizes in his home, in his own kind of messy filing system (my favourite is the non-filable 'spork') and goes about his life.
After meeting and chasing his new fascination, E.V.E, Wall-E accidentally arrives on The Axiom, a cruise shuttle that humans have been living on for centuries. Overweight, unattentive and completely dependant on their machines, the humans are now living out a kind of non-society drinking food-juice and sleeping day in, day out.
The automation of the society is overbearing and I'm sure things would just keep on keeping on...until Wall-E shows up and, without trying, changes the course of everyone and everything he meets. The machines, reacting to Wall-E, end up acting more humans than the humans do. The adorable Wall-E spends most of the story just trying to get and keep E.V.E's attention but in doing so, changes the course of human civilization.
There is precious little dialogue in all of "Wall-E". This makes a tricky dilemma. Usually, animators have an actors voice to work off of when they are animating a particular scene, so the consistency of Wall-E and how incredibly endearing he is speaks volumes for how much collaberation had to have been going on from day one with the entire team on this movie. Every whir, beep and head tilt endears Wall-E to the watcher as if he were our own intelligent pet robot. You can almost hear "Aww, I want one!" hidden in every giggle of the audience throughout the film. The theatre was packed with younglings and they were dead quiet the entire time. I think having to watch every moment to know what was going on (plus Wall-E being so damn cute) makes this movie an attention-teaching tool for future parents (like myself) so pre-order the dvd now!
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it was a great movie, especially (like you said) how well the emotions of the pretty much speechless robots were recieved by the audience. also i agree the showing i went to was 85% children all silent, it was weird, their was even a baby behind me and the whole movie it was silent too, a baby. sounds like this silence thing is consistent or we were in the same showing. either way a good movie that silences children while still being kickass is definetly a bonus.
wall-e also has alot of things to say about our culture which hopefully these children pick up on. the garbage, the weight issue, our dependence on machines, corporations running governments, etc. I enjoyed that Pixar tried to say to the audience that we have to stop this we can't just rely on machines but we can work together with them as shown in the plant passing scene. for a disney-pixar film it sure spent alot of time saying to us that we seriously have to rethink our lifestyles, i hope that every child sees the film and picks up on anyone of the number of the afore mentioned messages remembers them.
long and drawn out but for this movie its hard not to keep talking
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