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WALL*E (G) For 700 years, WALL«E, or Waste
Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class, has been
cleaning an earth left filthy by its popula
tion of massive over-consumers. Once part of
a fleet of robotic garbage men programmed
by the Buy N Large Corporation, WALL»E
now labors alone, his only friend a resilient
cockroach.
Amid architectural marvels of trash, the
boxy little bot with the head of Short Circuits
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of a trash compactor
has become a col
lector of humanity's
knickknacks (cigarette
lighters, rubber duck
ies, etc.), and after a
sesquicentennium of
solitary confinement,
has developed a soulful
curiosity with romantic
aspirations that are
heavily informed by
Hello Dolly. WALL»E is the most human, inhu
man character Disney has animated since
Pinocchio. WALL»E, with his Woody Allen-ish
binocular orbs and nebbishy hand-wringing, is
a next gen romantic hero educated in the old
school. He says little, and that minimal vocal
ization—provided by Ben Burtt—singularly
strengthens the film's Jacques Tati-an, silent-
era playfulness. Then one day, a ship lands
and launches EVE, a temperamental robotic
beauty that captures WALL»E's heart. After a
begrudging, one-sided courtship, EVE returns
to her spaceship, doggedly followed by
WALL*E, thus beginning the most exciting,
romantic adventure in the universe.
Pixar worship is far too easy to succumb
to, though the studio's godlike storytellers and
animators (John Lasseter and Brad Bird) had
begun to seem merely mortal after the retread
Cars and the sufficient Ratatouille. Leave it
to writer/director Andrew Stanton (Finding
Nemo) to rocket the
studio back to the ani
mated heavens.
With WALL*E, a
deeply human story
with maximum enter
tainment value, Pixar
again pulls off the feat
of making an animated
masterpiece look easy.
The sci-fi-romcom still
must outlast Toy Story
and Finding Nemo
before claiming the title of Pixaris best film,
but the slightly subversive, abstract wonder is
certainly Disney's greatest film since Beauty
and the Beast, an Oscar nominee for Best
Picture. Yet, WALL^E is no mere cartoon; it is
easily the class of 2008's cinematic output to
date. By year's end, WALL*E, a shoo-in to win
the Academy Award for Best Animated Film,
may deserve American moviedom's top prize.
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