Wall.e is a robot assigned to clean up the trash on Earth. Having been alone for 700 years, he has a friend who’s a cockroach, and has made a nice little home for himself in his containment unit. He collects things he finds, and watches the movie version of Hello, Dolly for the human interaction. During one of his routine days, a ship drops down Eve, a sleek robot who blasts anything that she doesn’t recognize. Her directive is to find sustainable life on Earth. Upon doing this, Eve (and Wall.e) travel back to her ship to deliver the news.

 

This is such a cute film. I’ve been anticipating it for a while, and it is so worth the wait. Wall.e has developed a personality, and when Eve arrives, he attempts to show her what Earth is like. He wants a companion.

 

When Wall.e and Eve go back to the ship from which she left, we as an audience see humans for the first time. This is when we see how much into the future this film occurs. This is also when the dialogue of the movie begins. Wall.e and Eve do talk some, but it’s the electronic sounds that computers make. The sounds of the various robots in the film are created by Ben Burtt, who is known for ET: The Extra-Terrestrial, and R2D2 from the Star Wars trilogy.

 

The humans have all become complacent and lazy, with none of them having any knowledge of Earth. Everything is automated, even down to the delivery of the food that they eat. In one scene, a man falls out of his mobile transportation unit, and he can’t even get himself up.

 

I know that Wall.e is opening in the U.S. this week, but it doesn’t come out in the UK until next month. Pixar has created another hit. Go see this.

 

Five trees out of 5