WALL-E — A Delightful Tale Of ‘Robot Love’
Posted By: 'Okie' | 8:50 am — 6/30/2008 | 
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We don’t go out to the movies very often as the convenience of watching them at home via a home-theater setup is hard to give up — unlimited bathroom breaks, easy access to inexpensive goodies, stopping and going to bed when you get tired, etc. However, all those also break the narrative flow and even a decent-sized HD screen can’t give you that “movie” experience, and an attentive/interactive crowd helps feed the energy, too.
For his birthday request yesterday we took a friend out to see Pixar’s latest, WALL-E. It was absolutely delightful. Working on a level that should appeal to kids from 9 to 90, WALL-E is the typical Disney morality tale wrapped up in a mind-tickling array of eye candy and sci-fi concepts. It also pays homage to many of the sci-fi movies like 2001 A Space Odyssey and Star Wars.
For young children the opening scenes and the first 1/2 hour might require some explanation and consoling afterwards — a totally wrecked and depleted Earth where the only things left moving are a single trash-compacting robot and a cockroach might freak them a bit.
I will admit that when I saw the first ads in the paper with the little white female robot EVE pictured I had my doubts as to where Pixar was going with that character. She was too pure in form, too clean in line and surface — how were they ever going to animate her and give her any kind of expression or emotion. The Okie was a worryin’ where there was no cause for worry. That little character blew me away! Of course, one look at WALL-E and you don’t even have to wonder if the animators could do something magic with him. He’s 100% character in a still frame, let alone with all the movement, noises and 700 years of acquired eccentricities.
Go see WALL-E — take some kids to see it. It will be 95 minutes of your life you’ll be happy to spend in a cool, dark theater with a couple hundred of your fellow biological units.
[Update: The Christian Film and Television Commission's MovieGuide.org gives WALL-E a +4 rating and has this to say.]
If you’ve been waiting for entertainment that would lift you up, carry you to the outer reaches of imagination, inspire you, fill you with love, joy and happiness, and leave you with a great resolution, you might want to see WALL•E. Andrew Stanton, who wrote and directed WALL•E, created one of the great movies of all time with FINDING NEMO. He has done it again. It’s hard to imagine a spiritually and morally uplifting movie experience that gets any better than Pixar’s latest animated masterpiece.
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