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If you’ve been waiting for entertainment that will lift you up, carry you to the outer reaches of your imagination, inspire you, and leave you with a fantastic resolution, you might want to see WALL•E. Andrew Stanton, who wrote and directed the film, created one great movie with Finding Nemo, and he has done it again. In the story, human beings left earth 700 years ago because there was too much trash. In their haste, they forgot to turn off WALL•E, Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class. So for 700 years he’s been trying to clean up the planet. In the process, he’s developed a terrific personality. He’s extremely curious and collects some very unique artifacts and knick-knacks. He has a roach companion, and at night he sits in his artifact-filled dumpster watching Hello, Dolly! He is intrigued by the romantic high point of the movie, where the actors hold hands, so he dreams of making this connection one day. In the midst of this, a gigantic rocket lands and drops off an Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluation robot, or EVE. She’s beautiful, fast, flies, and comes equipped with a laser gun. WALL•E is immediately smitten. However, EVE tries to blow him to smithereens, not knowing who he is.
Soon, however, she recognizes that beneath his grubby exterior is a wonderful personality. But when WALL•E gives her a plant, suddenly alarms go off and EVE is taken back into space, where he follows her to the spaceship Axiom. Axiom and other cruise-type spaceships were built to take people into space for a few years while the earth was cleaned up. Seven hundred years later, they are still sending probes like EVE to find out when they can go back. The human beings, however, have not only become large sitting in their deck chairs, but they have also become childlike. The ship is actually being run by Auto, a computerized autopilot. When the captain finds out EVE has a plant, he looks at old pictures of the earth and is smitten with the thought of real life back home. He wants to return, but Auto does not. Thus, in the midst of this love story, there is a battle for the future of mankind. In Pixar tradition, every detail of the film has been thought out. There are layers of rich, wonderful, uplifting, moral meaning emanating from every sound, line of dialogue, and action sequence. Soon after the first song from Hello, Dolly!, the audience is captivated and taken on a cinematic roller coaster ride with an extremely satisfying ending. It’s hard to imagine a spiritually and morally uplifting movie experience that gets any better than Pixar’s latest animated masterpiece. This is a great film, worth watching again and again. Reviewed by Dr. Ted Baehr photos courtesy Disney Enterprises
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