Wall-E Review

22-07-2008 14:08

Cast: Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin, Ben Burtt, Sigourney Weaver, John Ratzenberger

Dir: Andrew Stanton

Rating: 4.5/5

After Dreamworks, Pixar’s biggest rival in the animation genre, made their claim to dominate the box office this summer with Kung Fu Panda it’s now the turn of the leaders of the pack as they introduce a new hero, Wall-E.

After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, Wall-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named Eve.

Eve comes to realize that Wall-E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet’s future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans, who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home.

Meanwhile, Wall-E chases Eve across the galaxy in a bid to keep hold of his new found friend.

Not a year since the release of Ratatouille and Pixar have returned with the much anticipated movie Wall-E, and it’s safe to say that animation has come a long way since the first feature length film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Wall-E is visually stunning and really does show the audience the potential that animation still has as Wall-E is, with no disrespect to the movies that have gone before it, the most ambitious picture for them since Toy Story.