Review: Wall-E (Pixar)

Grade: A

I would've liked to have been in the conference room when the meeting about creating this film took place.

Writer: "Let's make a film entirely about a robot who's been left behind by humanity to clean up our trash..."

Pixar/Disney Exec: "Hmm, okay, sounds interesting. What's the plot?"

Writer: "He'll be an extremely curious robot who ends up falling in love with another robot that we send back to Earth on a survey mission 700 years later."

Pixar/Disney Exec: "What about dialogue interaction?"

Writer: "Just emotional sound effects really."

Pixar/Disney Exec: "Hmm..."

Writer: "But he'll be a cute robot that will draw sympathy from the audience with his personality, and we'll make him look like Johnny 5 from Short Circuit."

Pixar/Disney Exec: "Done."

Honestly, I wasn't sure how this film was going to work, but once again, I've been proven wrong by the geniuses at Pixar. I had a good time watching this movie. While there really isn't that much dialogue within the first hour of the film, you're completely taken in by what's going on, and rooting for the Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class robot. Acronymized to Wall-E.

Wall-E finds himself very curious about our old way of life and the material things that went along with it. He's presumably the last working robot left on Earth when a strange ship arrives, dispatching another robot named 'Eve.' Curious about this new visitor, Wall-E attempts contact and the two become friends. You go through a few roller-coasters and whatnot, but like the usual Pixar film, it comes full circle by the end. And, becomes yet another great Pixar film to add to your library.