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WALL - E (2008)
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Movie Review by Jeff 
July 28th, 2008
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What a cool concept. In the post apocalyptic world, or what seems to be that, the planet Earth is uninhabited. Uninhabited save one WALL E which stands for Waste Allocation Lift Loader, Earth-Class.
For the first twenty minutes or so of the film WALL E goes about his business which is obviously a daily routine of picking up mounds of trash, compacting them and spitting them back out forming a tetris like garbage city. There are no humans, no birds, no blue sky, nothing. WALL E has converted an old storage facility of sorts for his home where he lives with a bug which is a cross between a c*ckroach and a grasshopper. There are no words, just beeps and clicks. The words we do hear are in the form of singing through a video WALL E loves to watch which is a song and dance number in the movie musical HELLO DOLLY. He studies the scene carefully and takes great pain to study how the man and woman hold hands and skip down the street forming a connection. WALL E practices this quite a bit holding his own "hands" longing for the connection for another being. Before long a spaceship comes to Earth and leave a white pod behind to search for vegetation and takes the form of EVE which is short for Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator. WALL E instantly falls in love and follows EVE everywhere.
Without giving away the rest of the story, which is extensive, the movie follows EVE (with WALL E holding on for dear life) back to where she came from. What ensues is a whole second half of the story which is a lot of fun and really gives you pause.
A lot of people have turned their noses up at this movie saying it is anti-human and anti-consumerism. This is just not the case. I went into this movie knowing this objection. Let me say that this is in no way the case. If anything what it is about is protecting the environment around us so we don't trash our planet and not lay at home on the internet eating big macs and not excercising. I suppose the people that had the original objections might be doing just that and don't want to change it, so be it, but for the rest of us trying to do something to change the future a movie like WALL E works wonders.
PIXAR has once again outdone themselves and it is amazing the emotional connection this film makes you feel to what really is a make-overed trash can and a Sharper Image type robot. Also is just me or has anyone stopped to point out that WALL E looks exactly like the Robot Number 5 from the 1986 movie Short Circuit? When I first saw the trailer I thought this and I couldn't help but noticing it throughout the movie. Oh well, I liked Number 5 then and I like him in his 2008 version of WALL E.
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