This animated movie from Pixar/Disney movie made after the success of Finding Nemo they have the physics of under water licked so they decide to do a space movie to push the boundaries in another direction. Released in 2008 and was directed by Andrew Stanton who also directed A Bugs Life and Finding Nemo before taking the reigns of this movie. This was produced on a budget of $180m and went on to make $533.3m which must be seen as a huge success but to my knowledge there was never a sequel or a follow up movie. This movie stars the voices of Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy & Sigourney Weaver. This was loved by the critics except from me as I gave this the lowest score next up was IMDb who gave it a score 8.4/10 but who loved it more? Disney oh sorry I meant Rotten Tomatoes who gave it a near perfect 95%.
The plot for this one is that Wall-E is a robot left on Earth. An Earth that through consumerism and environmental neglect has turned in a rubbish filled wasteland. There are no humans left as they have been evacuated. He collects rubbish and pushes them into a trash compactor. A weird alien type probe arrives that is searching for life or plant life. When it spots a green shoot and cuts it out and takes it back with it, without realising Wall-E has got itself attached and flies off with it back to a spaceship. The spaceship is the Starliner called Axiom which left Earth years ago and is full of humans that have become lazy and desperate to go back to Earth. The bud would be a major thing for them, and I am now bored so I am moving on.
This is a nice little movie and its joy is based on the charisma of the speechless main character. This tiny little robot which is basically a box on wheels with binoculars eyes all followed with bleeps and blips, is so lovable that you cannot help but fall for this little character. The rest of the movie for me doesn’t cut it, yes there are lessons around not screwing up the planet and being kind to all living things, but I was there long for the opening credits for this movie. Was there enough extra to keep me interested, well no not for me. Would I tell you not to watch this movie and save the time? no probably not. I would say if you think you are going to enjoy this movie then give it a watch because the chances are you will enjoy it as many other people have as well. For me on the other hand it lacked something that Finding Nemo had or some of the other such as Toy Story that got a grown man so invested in the story it could of brought me to tears (almost) but this one didn’t click for me which some people may say says more about me than this film but I won’t argue with that just hit the eject button and move onto the next one.
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