Directed by: Andrew StantonWritten by: Andrew Stanton
Starring Cast: Ben Burtt (Wall-E and M-O), Ellissa Knight (Eve)
Supporting Cast: Jeff Garlin (the Captain of the Axiom), Fred Willard (Shelby Forthright, BnL CEO), Macintalk (Auto), John Ratzenburger (John), Kathy Najimy (Mary),
What's it Rated?: G
Genre: Animated, Space, Future, Comedy
Synopsis: A lone WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) Robot, while doing what he does best (clean up garbage) has developed one interesting glitch: a personality. While cleaning up earth, 700 years after humans have left, Wall-E is visited by a probe from the starship Axiom. But when the probe finds what it's looking for, Wall-E is dragged across the universe for the adventure of a lifetime.
My Take: If you're looking for a fun, enjoyable, and humorous movie, Wall-E is for you. It's not the kind of humor you see in a lot of cartoons, which is mainly slapstick, and of course, since the main character is a robot with a three word vocabulary, one liners and puns can't be used to keep the audience laughing. But the "facial" expressions, hand motions, and general attitude of the characters make this movie one of the funniest I've ever watched.
Unfortunately, the entire film is based on an environmentalist/liberal view of Humans: lazy, garbage producing, ozone-destroying bipeds. But once you get past this, It's a great film.
The story is simple, easy to understand, and fun. It doesn't drag a lot in any particular place or feel rushed in others. Like I said, It's simple, and I like it that way.
Story: 9 out of 10
Humor: 9 out of 10
Action/Suspense: N/A
Overall: 10 out of 10
-Graydon L
2 comments:
Actually, the movie is not about Enviromental awareness. There is an article in World magazine about the screenwriter, who is a Christian, and he said he had no idea it would be taken in that direction. His intention for showing all the garbage was a way he could give a reason for the lack of humans on earth. The humans of course, leaving because of the trash, leaving WALL-E to clean up the mess. Here is a link to the article: http://www.worldmag.com/articles/14127
Really? I didn't know that! But if someone didn't know that, he could easily think it was an environmental message... I did anyway.
thanks for that bit of info Jon!
-Graydon :-)
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