Wall-E Review

This is a movie spoiler. Stop reading if you are Planning on seeing Wall-E.

Went to see Wall-E last night. Wasn't going to at first but then I read a bit of the Portland Mercury review, which described it as not only one of the best movies of the year, but maybe one of the best sci-fi movies ever. (I posted on the Mercury before, but just to remind you all, the Mercury is the same weekly that had a coloring competition where contestants had to color a picture of the Easter Bunny pooping out easter eggs, that hatch and then little Jesus babies run toward downtown)

Intrigued and always loving Pixar, I was glad to go see it.
Hmmmm.... Wow, wasn't expecting what I saw, but I should have. I mean it is the Mercury for crying out loud!

To start, let me tell who Wall-E is. Wall-E is small robot whose name stands for Waste Alloction Load Lift Earth-Class. In other words, he is a selfsustaining, solar powered, miniature dump truck who was built to pick up all the pollution created by the corporation "Buy' n Large". A corporation that supplies every service on earth and has become the world government. In this grim and not so original future, the pollution has forced the people to evacute earth on a huge Buy' n Large space Love Boat leaving nothing to live on planet except cockroaches and nothing left to eat except twinkies. (by the way, Macintosh is the only product placement in the movie that I could remember. Reminding us all that corporations are bad except Mac. I think the twinkies were faux-twinkies)

Continuing on, a slick space girl robot named EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator), carrying a big gun comes to the planet to try an find growing vegetation. (Ok, I am getting bored with this review. I am going to speed this up)

She finds the plant, takes it back to the space love boat, where the people are now all fat and talking on their cell-phones and playing video games. She manages to put together a group of outcast, artist robots to save the day. The people on the ship come to realize that earth is where it's at, because farming and Ho-downs are cool. (I guess middle America is envied in the future) What isn't explained is why anyone would want to leave the space Love Boat to begin with since it is obviously much better at sustaining life than earth is.

In the end, the love between EVE and Wall-E save the day.
The End

Go see it. It is really good.