Wall-e: A Review

Few cartoons have captivated such a mass audience.

But Pixar has been able to produce golden movies one after the other from Toy Story to Finding Nemo and making them cultural phenomenons.

Nearly a decade in the making, Wall-e transcends the boundary of simplistic cartoons and Disney has the ingenious Pixar crew to shower its thanks on.

The popular misconception of cartoons is their childishness, or "shallowness." We then shun any significant meaning it may tender behind those animations.

But Wall-e, though it may seem generic with a likable and adorable protagonist, finds friendship and love, eradicates this and instead, creates a plausable crisis.

Sent to the Earth to detect if any life form still existed, Eve is a stronger robot, and the object of Wall-e's fascination. Wall-e presents her with numerous objects, attempting to win her friendship.

Andrew Stanton develops both characters excentionally well, without dialgoue nonetheless. Much of the movie is expressed through action. When Eve automatically shuts down after being presented with a plant, we see Wall-e's dedication as he braves lightning storms and the like to take care of his friend, and to perhaps get aboard the notorious spaceship the humans lounge on.

With humans lugging their sacks of fat on the spacecraft, Wall-e, with humorous blind luck and Eve's assistance, is able to restore appreciation of the Earth and their bodily shapes as well.

An Al Gore "green" ploy? Perhaps. But an unchartered and provoking message nonetheless.

Wall-e is a tale about loneliness. We are able to see Wall-e's personality and how he interacts with others (see M-0 the cleaning robot). His antics often makes him look ridiculous, but his sense of humor is charming regardless.

I can go on but the bottom line is that Wall-e adds to the expanding list of outstanding Pixar productions.

It's reputation? Midas like.

It's message? Brilliant.

It's effect? As strong as Wall-e's grasp was on Eve's.