WALL-E
Yesterday, my family and I finally got to see WALL-E for the first time. WOW, I was fully impressed! I'll get to the story line later, but the visuals were just stunning, especially the starscapes that we saw as WALL-E was flying along holding onto the side of the probe ship. I was a bit envious when he was able to reach up an actuated arm and touch the ice particles in Saturn's rings!
Pixar has done it again. They have taken an inanimate object (a robotic box in this case), and made me love it. WALL-E is the last operational unit of an army of clean-up robots that was left on the earth to take care of the remains of human waste and garbage while the bulk of humanity boarded a gigantic spacecraft and went to the stars to wait for the clean-up to complete.
700 years have passed since humanity left earth, and the majority of the WALL-E robots have broken down and stopped functioning. The WALL-E unit that we see in the movie is the last remaining unit in operation. Through hundreds of years of working in relative isolation, combing through humanity's discarded garbage, WALL-E has developed a number of quirks, such as a knack for self-repair, friendship with a cockroach, and a love of classic musical theater productions. Through the years, he has spent his time doing his job--compacting garbage into neat little cubes, and stacking them up into what has now become towers of trash. Everything changes one day when the human colony ship sends a robotic probe to earth, searching for signs of re-emerging vegetation in hopes that humanity can return.
I won't reveal the whole story here (even though most of you have likely seen the movie already), but I will say that I absolutely loved it, and would be happy to own this movie in our home. Pixar has taken two robots and given them each a soul, such that the audience can't help but relate to the both of them on various levels. WALL-E is such a sweet, innocent, curious robot that one could nearly mistake him for a human child.
The social commentary in this movie is clear, though--even clearer than in previous movies (Cars, for example). If humanity continues to pollute the earth and neglect to care for it, it will eventually become unlivable.
The short film at the beginning of the movie had me holding my sides with laughter, too--if you haven't seen it, get ready for some silly magic that you won't forget! :D
Pixar has done it again. They have taken an inanimate object (a robotic box in this case), and made me love it. WALL-E is the last operational unit of an army of clean-up robots that was left on the earth to take care of the remains of human waste and garbage while the bulk of humanity boarded a gigantic spacecraft and went to the stars to wait for the clean-up to complete.
700 years have passed since humanity left earth, and the majority of the WALL-E robots have broken down and stopped functioning. The WALL-E unit that we see in the movie is the last remaining unit in operation. Through hundreds of years of working in relative isolation, combing through humanity's discarded garbage, WALL-E has developed a number of quirks, such as a knack for self-repair, friendship with a cockroach, and a love of classic musical theater productions. Through the years, he has spent his time doing his job--compacting garbage into neat little cubes, and stacking them up into what has now become towers of trash. Everything changes one day when the human colony ship sends a robotic probe to earth, searching for signs of re-emerging vegetation in hopes that humanity can return.
I won't reveal the whole story here (even though most of you have likely seen the movie already), but I will say that I absolutely loved it, and would be happy to own this movie in our home. Pixar has taken two robots and given them each a soul, such that the audience can't help but relate to the both of them on various levels. WALL-E is such a sweet, innocent, curious robot that one could nearly mistake him for a human child.
The social commentary in this movie is clear, though--even clearer than in previous movies (Cars, for example). If humanity continues to pollute the earth and neglect to care for it, it will eventually become unlivable.
The short film at the beginning of the movie had me holding my sides with laughter, too--if you haven't seen it, get ready for some silly magic that you won't forget! :D