Wall-E - Google: Pixar Delivers a Smash Hit Again!
Can't offer up a full review of the film, so here is a quick look at Wall-E.
Wall-E rocks cinema all the way back to its vaudeville roots! It’s an environmentally conscious Tati meets Kubrick opera set in a Post-apocalyptic future where mankind is nowhere to be found on the barren and toxic plains of Earth. All that remains is a highly curious heart on his sleeve robot named Wall-E and his faithful roach companion that we watch go about daily life without nary a word of dialogue. The robotic soliloquy, charm and relentless curiosity of Wall-E is pure movie magic. Of course daily life is far from boring or routine at the hands of the Pixar storytellers! Daily life soon gives way to a spiraling chain of events that is best not written about so that you, the soon to be viewer, can discover it fresh.
Wall-E is a love letter to classical science fiction cinema and is Pixar's most accomplished and politically charged film to date, which will leave audiences begging for more and offering immense repeat viewing value.
Wall-E is a non-stop sci-fi comedy thrill ride that takes us through a cautionary tale of what, "staying the course” might really mean for Earth hundreds of years from now if mankind cannot live in balance with the planet, its resources and suffer from over reliance of technology in our lives. It’s message of burgeoning hope and optimism that there can in fact one day be on planet Earth environmental peace and harmony without needing to Google everything we pretend to know. For summer time audiences, Wall-E, offers up a chance to beat the heat and renew both young and old with everything they love about great cinema.
Everything we love about Pixar films is proudly on display here – great storytelling, amazing digitally realized worlds and characters, biting commentary, cultural references and beating heart tales full of magic and endless imagination. With Wall-E, Pixar outdoes and out performs all of its previous tales as if it were King Kong climbing on top of the Empire State building to flex its creative muscles and proclaim their soul. They aren’t content on complacency in the digital animated film arena as their work continues to highlight them as trailblazers that take us to new unimagined heights with each film. Digital animation cinema has never been this towering before. The digital animation is so damn good here, especially where Pixar further pushes out the boundaries of what is possible, it makes you want to slap yourself. And it must be said, never in the history of film have robots been this darn exciting and fun to watch.
The short Presto that plays before Wall-E is a highly fun tale reconstructing magicians and the magic they perform, albeit here with a hungry rabbit who decides to turn the tables to get a most treasured and revered sacred bunny rabbit treat.
