{"id":1464,"date":"2008-06-29T21:24:18","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T02:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2008-06-29T21:43:16","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T02:43:16","slug":"wall-e-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2008\/06\/29\/wall-e-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"WALL-E–Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWALL-E<\/em><\/a>, a gentle children’s sci-fi movie from Disney and Pixar, starts out on a future Earth that has been abandoned by humans because it has been covered with garbage. The hero, a robot whose name stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class, spends his days picking up the trash, crushing it into cubes with his built-in trash compactor, and stacking the cubes into gigantic pyramids. <\/p>\n

He has been at this for 700 years. His fellow robots have all broken down. His only companion is a pet cockroach which he feeds with 700-year-old Twinkies (still good as new.)<\/p>\n

One day a spaceship lands and disgorges a beautiful, shiny flying robot named EVE. WALL-E is instantly infatuated. EVE turns out to be sort of a robot tsundere<\/a>, but he eventually wins her over. (Awww…Robot love!)
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\nHowever EVE is summoned back to her home base, and WALL-E stows away to follow her–back to a starship where the tubby descendants of humanity float around on levitating chairs, waited on hand and foot by compliant robots.<\/p>\n

First the good news: this movie looks really good. If you want to make a movie in which the most sympathetic characters are two robots and a cockroach, 3-D computer-generated animation is clearly the way to go.<\/p>\n

Less good news: it’s not as funny as I had hoped. I was hoping for something hilarious. Instead I got something mildly amusing. Nor is it particularly exciting. The kindest thing I can say is that it won’t cause the kids any nightmares.<\/p>\n

It’s very cute and slick-looking, but the script is standard B-movie sci-fi. Think of the original Star Wars<\/em> movie. (You’ll have to imagine it without any villains, and with two R2D2s, and imagine that the R2D2s get almost all of the screen time.)<\/p>\n

It’s not a waste of time, but I was hoping for a bit more from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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