Wall-E

Wall-E

Pixar On A Roll
Tom Cravens

WALL-E (Ben Burtt) has been doing his job, cleaning up the garbage for a long time. He takes time out to repair himself and to collect a treasure, or two during his endless days. He even has a cute place in this desolate world where he stores his things and watches a portion of the movie ‘Hello Dolly.’ From this he learns about dancing and holding hands, but he has no one to share these things with.

Then EVE (Elissa Knight) is dropped into his world. She is elegant and graceful with an over-riding directive. She knows what she is looking for and has the fire power to remove anything that gets in her way. Despite being ignored and shot at, WALL-E does not stop trying to make friends with her. He finally wins her over and takes her back to his place where they get to know each other. And there, she finds what she has been looking for among his treasures. Once her directive has been satisfied, she falls silent waiting to be picked up. But when WALL-E sees that someone is trying to steal her away, he will not idly stand by and gives chase.

He follows her back to her world where the real adventure begins. He interacts with John (John Ratzenberger) and Mary (Kathy Najimy) and even meets the Captain (Jeff Garlin), who relies on Auto (Macintalk) and the Ships Computer (Sigourney Weaver) to keep this new world running smoothly.

Between animation and digital effects, this summer is going to be one great movie after another. Pixar has certainly rolled out another fabulous tale that has both spectacular characterizations and heart wrenching emotions. WALL-E and EVE become involved despite their programming, and then are challenged to go just a little further to learn new things.

Talk About Trash
Cozette Cravens

Wall-E is a romantic comedy about two robots of different generations. The movie depicts the darker side of what humans did to our planet. Our planet became a dumping ground for trash beyond belief. I know this is supposed to be a fictional movie, or is it? Wall-e is the last of his kind, left on the earth to clean it up.

Walle-e and his pet cockroach go merrily along cleaning and collecting odd junk. Humans leave earth on a cruise ship for space and are in space for hundreds of years. The humans become fat and lazy; laying in hover craft lounges, drinking all their meals out of cups with straws, watching TV, and doing no physical activity, while their bones are deteriorating.
Wall-E meets Eve and his world is turned upside down. Now that sounds more like real life. The movie evolves around Wall-e trying to rescue Eve. The writer/director, Andrew Stanton did a good job with the movie, even though he didn’t try to make a political statement about the earth; it seems to bring things home for me. Maybe we are developing a trashy planet, look around outside and see the litter and carelessness. With all this, I still loved the movie and would get it on DVD.

 

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