Movie Review: Wall-E
Forget Dreamworks Animation. Pixar is where it’s at. Sure, Dreamworks may have created the legendary film Shrek, but other than that and the average Madagascar and Shark Tale, that’s all they’re good for. Pixar’s filmography includes tons of notable films such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and Ratatouille.
And then there’s WALL-E. This is a fairly recent film. Hell, it was released today (For those reading this on a later date, the date I’m typing this is on June 27th). I think Pixar has done it again. Of course, it could come to no surprise, looking back at their other films.
Plot (5/5): 700 or so years from now, we’ll leave the Earth due to a massive garbage buildup. We’ll leave a small robot, WALL-E, in our place to clean up after ourselves. WALL-E lives in a garbage truck-like house. He owns tons of junk he found cleaning up Earth. Among this junk, he has a VHS copy of Hello Dolly, to which he discovers romance. Day after mundane day, he cleans up Earth, until one day, when he finds a plant stored behind a refrigerator. The next morning, a robot named EVE arrives and scouts the area for life. WALL-E has found true love, but when he takes her home and shows her the plant…
Sound (5/5): Wonderful. The robots were voiced by voice actors, yes, but Ben Burtt, Star Wars sound making pioneer, has made the voices into what they would be like spoken in a robot’s voice. The score, while it may not have any rock songs, the featured songs, usually from the 60’s, are quite nice, and so is the score.
Direction (5/5): The CGI in this movie works wonders. A beautiful demonstration of this is when WALL-E is flying in space. The robots are convincing at being robots, with the clicks and whirrs any normal robot would have. Even the human voice actors are good. There is also a good combination of real life footage and 3-D animation in this movie. Fun Fact: The BNL CEO is played by Fred Willard, a comedic actor.
Overall: I loved this movie. What are you waiting for? Go see it. Now. With it’s cute cast of characters, amazing CGI settings, and awesome robot interaction, it’s a true Pixar mov-EE!…Heheheh… Sorry, but seriously. Go see this movie if you aren’t satisfied with Kung Fu Panda. With that said, I look forward to Pixar’s next animated movie. Oh, and Spielberg, you really need to tell the animation department at Dreamworks to up the ante, in my opinion. Oh, and sorry to all you British over there. You have to wait an extra month before you get it. And Australians? Forget it. You guys get it in September. I’m certain it will be worth the wait.
Article by Sonicnerd23.







July 10th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Yeah, damn it because we always get films late for some reason. Good review, though I didn’t read all of it because I didn’t wanna spoil the movie =O
July 10th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Wall-E totally looks like the robot from “Short Circuit”… minus the cheesy 80’s style of course
July 11th, 2008 at 12:12 am
I liked this movie review. I agree with everything you stated there, nice job!
July 11th, 2008 at 2:31 am
Great review. The movie is simply wonderful
July 11th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Ya, I saw that movie, too. Very entertainig, and good morals to the story.
July 12th, 2008 at 6:39 am
ah shit. god damn living in australia
not a bad review though, some nice wording there.
July 12th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Only problem I had with this review:
“The score, while it may not have any rock songs, the featured songs … are quite nice”
Forgive me if I’m reading this wrong, but I think this movie would have been absolutely awful with rock music.
July 13th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Eh. Well, you have a point.
July 13th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Wall-e Rocks! It was totally original.