Pixar and Disney deliver

The new Pixar animated film, “Wall-E,” can be summed up in two words: as expected.

This is not a bad thing. Since Disney and Pixar first teamed up on “Toy Story,” they have done nothing but consistently produce outstanding movies, which appeal to all audiences.

So it’s no surprise the working brains behind “Cars” and “Finding Nemo” crafted such a unique, heart-warming story as “Wall-E.”

The movie is set 800 years in the future and focuses on a small robot, “Wall-E” whose function is to clean up the planet.

Earth has become too polluted and has been deserted by the human race, who now live on spaceships and get extremely fat.

Wall-E lives a lonely life on the isolated planet until another robot, named EVE, visits in search of life forms.

Wall-E falls in robot-love and eventually hitches a ride on EVE’s ship, traveling into space.

Wall-E and EVE team up to salvage a healthy plant sample found on Earth and bring humans back to try to recolonize the planet.

Visually, “Wall-E” is infinitely impressive. The vast wasteland Earth has become incredible to see, not to mention the eye-opening futuristic effects in space.

The settings and textures are so good that sometimes it seems like the animators are just showing off.

Once you get past the visuals, there is, as expected, a touching story of a robot who seems more human than any on-screen robot ever, even the Tin Man from “The Wizard of Oz.”

Almost as soon as you meet Wall-E, you forget he doesn’t have a heart or a brain. You find yourself cheering for him as if he was your best friend.

As you follow the little machine through his epic journey, you can’t help but learn from him and be humbled by his genuineness.

Those circuits and wires come together to form a hopeless romantic, whose only desire in the universe is to hold somebody’s hand.

A beautiful love story mixed with a definite statement on society and Pixar’s most effective main character ever make “Wall-E” a movie experience that definately should not be missed.

Rating: A

—Dillon Hart
Staff Writer

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