Wall-E - A review
Friday, August 1st, 2008
Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class), left behind to clean up the planet after the last humans have left, develops a longing for a more sophisticated robot called Eve and together they travel across space so that Wall-E can be re-united with his makers.I had heard promising things about this film, including a claim that it would be nominated for Best Film at the next Academy Awards. It tries to put across a message about the dangers of failing to re-cycle all our waste, while trying to keep the kids laughing at the same time. The result is a film that contains elements of childhood entertainment and thought-provoking visions of our planet’s distant future, but the finished product doesn’t know for sure exactly what it is or who it’s aimed at. There’s very little dialogue for the first half of its 103 minutes, until the scene shifts to a massive spaceship moored somewhere in the solar system and which houses the entire human race. An interesting concept is that humans have evolved in such a way that they are physically much larger but have fewer bones in their bodies, because they don’t move or exercise at all as a result of their total dependency upon automatons (in dozens of different guises) to do all functions.
