WALL-E is the epitomy of what movies are all about.

Pixar has always been reliable for creating movies with great characters, great stories, and lastly, sending out a great message. Personally I wasn't enamored with Finding Nemo or Cars, so I wasn't sure WALL-E would be my thing, and that maybe Pixar's magic was wearing off on me; I was wrong. WALL-E is what movies are really about; a story that conveys it's message without having to force it on you, it creates great characters that feel alive, and provides great entertainment while making it seem effortless.

WALL-E is a sci-fi love story set about 800 years in the future. Humans have left Earth because it is uninhabitable from all of the pollution and trash about the planet. They have left units known as WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Earth-Class) to clean the planet by taking gobs of garbage and forming them into small cubes of trash to make the planet more organized. WALL-E was for some reason not shut off when humans shut off all WALL-E units, so he has been forming trash cubes on Earth for hundreds of years. EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) is sent to Earth by humans to search for life. WALL-E meets her and instantly falls in love with her. He has been able to gain emotion and feelings by being on Earth for so long, and from collecting random human objects such as Ipods, CDs, Rubix Cubes, etc. EVE goes back into space and WALL-E goes looking for her. (I won't specify much, for people who haven't seen the film.)


The thing I love about WALL-E the most is; it silently conveys how sad our race and our planet has become. WALL-E depicts a world where mile long superstores, buying in bulk, ridiculous technology, and streamlined lives rule people. It shows the path that we are likely to go down if we don't do anything about our problems. In WALL-E, people are extremely overweight, lazy, and rely on technology to do everything. People are so lazy in WALL-E, that they have lost most of their bone mass as a race, because of them always sitting down and being carried around by a car-like recliner. There are tons of messages being conveyed in WALL-E, that some are hard to find, since there are so many.

Some may be turned off by WALL-E since it's technically a "Kid's movie", but it really is for everyone, and most of the messages and some humor is targeted towards teenagers and adults, ironically. It really is an amazing movie that will be recognized and remembered for a long time. Pixar has made such unbelievable strides in CGI from the early days of Toy Story, and WALL-E visually is nothing short of fantastic.

WALL-E is for everyone: It conveys great messages that really make you wonder and think, it has great humor for everyone, it visually looks great, and overall it's a great love story. WALL-E ends on a bittersweet tone, and a little confusing. Although the ending could have used some revising, overall, it doesn't take away from the shear genius, that is WALL-E. I recommend WALL-E to anyone that wants to see a great movie; Pixar has done it again, folks. Keep the great movies coming, Pixar, because this one is easily one for the ages. WALL-E gets a 5 out of 5.