I finally had a bit of time to catch Wall-e yesterday. I have to say that I feared that I over-hyped the movie. To be honest, I didn't really care all that much for Cars, though I have watched it again on DVD.
I however totally loved Finding Nemo. I started crying in the theater in the first opening minutes and had a great time with the rest of the film. I think Finding Nemo and The Incredibles are tied as my favorite PIXAR film.... Well, until this.
I love many things about PIXAR, Their storytelling is really solid. They don't stuntcast for voices. Their animation is... amazing.
With Wall-e, you get all of that and more. Wall-e is one of thousands and thousands of robots left to clean up a decimated Earth. Humans have totally trashed the home undefinedworld. B&L, a gigantic conglomerate, seems to own/run everything, and Earth is a junkyard.
So humans leave on a 5 year cruise in space and let the robots clean up. (As an aside, after finally taking a cruise, I was greatly amused by the AXIOM. It's the ultimate space fun ship.)
700 years later, the humans are still away and all of the other WALL-E robots have ceased to function. The last remaining one has is malfunctioning in the best way ever. Like a kind of robot madness, he's broken through and develops a personality.
Wall-e is kind. He's romantic. He's lonely. He's funny. And he's amazing.
