Synopsis: Wall-E enjoys cockroaches, Hello Dolly, long walks in a post apocalyptic cityscape.
Pixar. It’s pure gold. Attempting to give a Pixar movie a bad rating would be similar to arguing with Mother Theresa: no one cares if you are right and you probably aren’t. Or perhaps it is more like giving the upcoming Dark Knight a bad review. I mean, someone died. What are you, some kind of soulless animal? (DK is currently at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. I’m waiting for someone to give it a bad review. There will be blood.).
We should first discuss the obligatory topic of its technical prowess. Yes, it is indeed amazing. This of course is nothing new from Pixar, but Wall-E does really stand out from its predecessors for its CG-ifying. There are several moments during the film were Wall-E is almost tangible. It does help that it is dealing with robots (his girlfriend is sort of a MacBook crossed with a Terminatrix). The humans look as rubbery as ever, but it is arguable that they are supposed to considering the plot.
Some of the characters were stronger than others. Wall-E and Eve were incredibly well done. The humans were a bit less interesting. I really enjoyed the faithful pet cockroach and would have liked to see more of him. This is probably my greatest gripe with the movie. Unlike previous flicks like Toy Story or Monsters Inc which had a very large cast but still managed to develop each character and provide them with satisfactory screen time, Wall-E felt more like a two robot show and it wasn’t from lack of characters. If the entire movie took place on earth and involved only Wall-E, Eve, and his cockroach, I would be fine with that, but there are various humans we meet and even sort of a token antagonist. This is far from a glaring issue, however, and is spurred mostly by the movie being so good that I wish there had been more.
So go for the visuals. Oh and ah over Ben Burt’s mastery of robot sounds. Go for the main characters. Be impressed by the shear immensity of quality this movie exudes.
Unashamedly smacking a “Must see” on this one.
