Jan 07 2009
WALL-E: A sweet yet scary look at our future!
After a long day of working I sat down, put my computer away, and popped this flick in….and yes, I got sucked in. The movie starts off with a desolate and dirty-as well as abandoned-Earth….except for our metal head hero, Wall-E….oh yeah, and a cockroach he has befriended, or rather, made as a pet, gotta love those cute little cockroaches, they can live through anything. You learn that the humans have left Earth to hang out in space because we have ruined the Earth with our Garbage and ultra-consumerism…a spicy and rather daring topic for Disney to throw out there, especially being that if you set foot in any of their parks Consumerism happens to be something they sell…isn’t that the fad these days though…kind of like the cigarette companies who run anti-smoking ads…hmmm. Ok, back to the movie. So they have left the machines to do the dirty work of cleaning up and they don’t plan on returning until our atmosphere is habitable again…..well, 700 years later, Wall-E is the only machine opperating, Earth still looks like a trash heap, and the humans have been floating up in space still buying in to the ultra consumerism…so much so that they are now just floating fat blobs-hey, have any of you seen the movie Dune, they are totally like the floating, fat, bad-guy from that movie. Well, the humans still have hope, so they periodically send probes down, particularly one sassy probe that catches Wall-E’s eyes and heart. So much so that he gives her his prize posession, a plant-which is what she has been sent down to find since that means the atmosphere is habitable again….this is when the adventure and love story begins. Without telling you any more of the plot, I must say that this movie was endearing and probably one of the best little love/action stories that I have seen from Disney in a long time….maybe it is because our lead characters only say one or two words throughout the whole film…and that is each other’s names. The animation is very realistic and the artists do a fabulous job on anthropomorphisizing/humanizing these robots. Wall-E’s simple eye gestures were more expressive then any dialogue Leonardo Di Caprio or Kate Winslet could ever say. I must admit the idea of us destroying our planet this way, and then turning in to floating fat men and women in space was a scary idea because let’s face it, it could happen. Although the ending was a little too unrealistic, I mean come on, these people have never walked in their lives and they weigh 500 lbs, do you really think they could just pop out of the shuttle and be able to walk in Earth’s gravity for the first time as if it was no big deal! Then again, this is Disney and there needs to be a happily ever after. While watching this, I had to reach out and grab my girlfriends hand a couple of times, and once finished, I was not only happy that I watched this flick, but I was also happy that I work out and watch my diet….Too cute not to own, and a thumbs up to Disney for mocking our slurpy-sucking culture.
