wall e animation moviePixar made a really genius animation movie in this funny romantic comedy, that starred by a robot who says absolutely nothing for a full 25 minutes, but somehow completely transfixes and endears himself to the audience within the first few minutes of the film.

Wall-E is the last robot left on earth, and is one small robot with a big, big heart who holds the future of earth and mankind squarely in the palm of his metal hand. He’s the only one left from all of the “Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class” robots that were assigned to clean up the environmental mess that man made of earth about 700 years ago. Wall-E is voiced by Ben Burtt.

Wall-E has dutifully gone about his job compacting trash, the extreme solitude broken only by his pet cockroach, but he’s developed some oddly human habits and ideas. When the Axiom sends its regularly scheduled robotic EVE probe (Elissa Knight) to earth, Wall-E is instantly smitten and proceeds to try to impress EVE with his collection of human memorabilia. EVE’s directive compels her to bring Wall-E’s newly collected plant sprout to the captain of the Axiom and Wall-E follows in hot pursuit.

Suddenly, the human world is turned upside down and the Captain (Jeff Garlin) joins forces with Wall-E and a cast of other misfit robots to lead the now lethargic people back home to earth. Wall-E is a great family film with the most impressive aspect being the depth of emotion conveyed by a simple robot a machine typically considered devoid of emotion, but made so absolutely touching by the magic of Pixar animation.

Also well-worth admiring are the sweeping views from space, the creative yet disturbing vision of what strange luxuries a future space vacation might offer, and the innovative use of trash in a future cityscape. Underneath the slapstick comedy and touching love story is a poignant message about the folly of human greed and its potential effects on earth and the entire human race. Wall-E is preceded in theaters by the comical short Presto in which a magician’s rabbit, unfed one too many times takes his revenge against the egotistical magician.

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