Saturday, August 30, 2008

Wall-E


Yes. Its 'cartoon' and its NICE!
the Earth as a garbage dump, a future reduced to ruins. For the past 700 years, what's left of humanity has been cruising the skies in a spaceship. Only a tiny robot, WALL-E (for Waste Allocation Load Lifter: Earth class), scoots around on urban terra firma compacting trash into piles that grow into skyscrapers.
The first, virtually dialogue-free half hour is jaw-dropping perfection, as WALL-E (his eloquent beeps come courtesy of Ben Burtt, whose sound design for the film deserves an Oscar just for starters) watches a space probe land and discharge a sleek, robot named EVE (for Extra-Terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator). EVE (voiced by Elissa Knight) looks like an egg-shaped i-Pod with the power to vaporize any potential threat, a scary prospect. But it only takes a moment for WALL-E to fall hard for this cutie, who lets down her guard when he shares his treasures, including an eggbeater, a Rubik's cube, a Zippo lighter, a brassiere (don't ask), and bubble wrap that provides hours of popping fun. But it's a fragile sprout of plant, which WALL-E keeps in old shoe, that gets EVE jazzed. Before she heads off for the Axiom space station, with WALL-E in hot pursuit, the two strike up an odd-couple relationship
Wall-E is a very organised movie which shows the versatility of Pixar once again. The movie starts with a 5 minute clip of Presto, some random rabbit and magician short movie from Pixar, then snippets of the universe and the song 'Put on Your Sunday Clothes' starts playing. Then shows our little Wall-E cleaning up Earth. Soon, Eve came along to Earth looking for signs of life (Plants). Wall-E, after 700 years of loneliness, developed 'Love At First Sight' with Eve. As a token of love, he gave Eve a plant he had found. Here's when the plot starts. They got back to Axiom, a spaceship where humans moved to. Everything is robot-controlled. So humans can no longer walk, and gone fat. It's a battle of wheter going back Eath or not. And by the end, you'll feel light-hearted and touched even by the robots. Pixar has already bought your sympathy in the beginning, the por Wall-E with slanted eyes living and cleaning Earth alone, and falling in love with a robot Eve with no feelings. Really a delight.
i give 4/5 stars!!!!

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