"WALL•E" (2008) - Movie Review

“WALL•E” in its presentation is a form of silent film and it has two electromechanical beings developing emotions similar to humans. Pixar’s new creation and director Andrew Stanton’s work after “Finding Nemo” has a peculiar approach in “WALL•E”. Apart from the imaginative visuals and a spectacular screenplay, the film is given in the form of an auto focus camera. Its lull moments are nothing and with full gear on this geeky cuteness of this worker bee robot, “WALL•E” is the summer film for the family.

In the far ahead future of our earth is a lonely robot WALL•E (robotic voice of Ben Burtt) building boxes out of garbage and piles of it becoming an architectural structure. It has survived the deactivation of rest of his compatriot versions and even an emotionless robot longs for company. It has a cockroach pet which again is a micro mechanical device with a wit of its liking towards this worker. They wander like a happy family and do the boring monotonous work of arranging and disposal of the waste. It sees an old classic film of a couple holding hands and that is taken as the indication of love for him. Now all he needs is his love.

One fine bright day lands a space object to put a white egg shaped angel robot with blue digital eyes which scans things amongst the dirt. Soon both the devices meet up and catch up. WALL•E goes bongos for his new “lady” robot EVE. It is beauty and geek for these androids. In his den of residence, WALL•E presents her with his new found material, a plant. This triggers her command system and we learn that EVE is Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator. Her job is to detect the vegetation and report to the far ahead space ship provided by a giant consumer market seven hundred years ago.

See the earth got consumed itself in the consumer existence by the giant company aptly called BuyNLarge. The same company took off to space with lot of earth members into its full automated space resort. No one walks and each person has a traveling bean bag glued to a projected visual of chatting and entertainment. Food are made into drinks and the resultant is bunch of lethargic obese people in the AXIOM space ship where WALL•E chases to rescue EVE.

It is a challenge for the creators in physical comedy. Dialogues are next to nothing and the sounds of communication between WALL•E and EVE are scrambled robotic speeches with each other calling their names umpteen times, which never gets boring and resonates the sweetness in these two. In a digitized system of enormous opportunities of made up run downs and comedic eventualities, “WALL•E” develops into a plot of substance and entertainment.

These two characters entirely take the story line with other side kicks having their boxes of material arranged for the screen. WALL•E will be adored by kids and the irony will be that corresponding toys, video games and advertisement would have already basked through super markets and outlet stores. The Captain‘s (voiced by Jeff Garlin) numbness in all these years with excellent slaves of comfort and the knowledge kicking the instincts of the human quality makes us wonder the possibilities of our extension in this current luxurious environment.

As the reviews are raving about the film, I would take couple of steps back and see what the whole some value of this film is. The film does not in anyway make compromises in either technical or creative department. It works with the passion the team has brought upon in previous ventures. Given that, “WALL•E” is a film I had fun and quite extraordinarily woven a futuristic science fiction romance animated feature with great success. While the charts go off on this, “WALL•E” did not entirely cover me with the zeal what “Ratatouille” gave. But it is unfair to compare it with that as the individual film characteristic represents each of its own. It is a cute little robot story with a doubtless heart for family audience.