WALL*E ( Movie )
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WALL*E is the best movie I’ve seen in the past 1654 days, arguably longer. I have never, not once, had a better movie going experience than I just did. After watching the incredible Presto! short, I was delighted to the most engaging animated 97 minutes of all time. This is the new, futuristic Snow White or Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty or any other Disney classic. Rather than set this with swords and dragons and medieval times, we have robots and lasers and space and the beautiful, if bleak, future. Rather than an evil queen, we have evil technology. We don’t have an angry mob, we have a lazy, complacent society. I had to pee so badly for the last hour that I thought my bladder would rupture, but I was so glued to my seat I suffered through it.
What you need to know is that WALL*E is the incredible hustler robot that cleans up trash and builds things alone in a post-apocolyptic Earth. When a probe robot, EVE, unexpectedly touches down to survey Earth for plant life, WALL*E falls in love (or what he considers love from all his watchings of Hello, Dolly!) immediately. Hilarity, sincerity, and beauty ensue. With almost no dialogue, Andrew Stanton crafts an old fashioned love story with political, economic, and social points of view and a sense of humor to rival Love Guru. JFK. Just Fucking Kidding, not John F. Kennedy. This movie is so good, even the credits are better than most entire movies. Perfect storytelling, perfect animation, perfect run time, perfect. This should be on everyone’s Top Ten list of all time. If you don’t feel happy after this movie, then you were either tortured by robots as a child or your bladder actually did explode during.
John Garland is incredible as the captain of the Spaceship by the way. Does Pixar select main characters from the UCB Performers page? I can only hope. Maybe Alan McCleud will be in Up!
