The Friday Movie Review: Wall-E

Happy Friday!

Remember I gave thanks in my journal a few weeks ago for how much I enjoyed sitting on the back deck watching the kids giggling and jumping on the trampoline while sipping mojito with the fresh mint sprigs grown on my back deck.  That was a lovely night.  Something else I did that evening was plan out a schedule for Her Family Blog and came up with special features for it.  One day soon I hope to be thankful for IMPLEMENTING those plans!  :-)  One feature I had decided on was movie review Friday.  I am so glad today is Thursday so that I can write about the incredible movie we saw last night.  Wall-E.

Disney Pixar has hit another home run with this fresh and original story.  Before seeing the movie the title character reminded me of the heart warming character of my generation, E.T.  Although the characters are similar in that way, that is where the movie similarity ends. 

Wall-E is not an extra-terrestrial.  He is a robot, part of fleet of robots called ”Wall-E”s that were designed to compact trash and clean up planet earth while earth’s inhabitants enjoy a five year, all inclusive, tour of space.  

Seven hundred years passes and generations of people are born and pass on the space ship, each generation becoming more fat and complacent.  Something went wrong on earth preventing their return.  Eventually, this is the only life the people know.  There is no interest in returning to earth.

The man in charge of the earth’s clean up did a super job of inventing robots to squash the trash, but he neglected to put anything in charge of “looking after” the planet.  Eventually there is not a single piece of vegetation and no living creatures except one little bug whose best (only)friend is Wall-E, the last functioning trash compactor robot.  After 700 years Wall-E has developed quite a personality. 

Wall-E dreams of a place more than this desolate land covered in cubes of trash.  And through his collection of treasures he has saved over the years, he has evidence it exists.

Follow Wall-E along on his journey as he meets a girl, and goes on adventure through space with her to get the humans back on track to their lives of action and emotion, and their home that needs them.

How you learn so much about what the characters are thinking and feeling is testament to the wonderful minds at Disney Pixar once you realize the first two thirds of the movie has almost no words. 

Sari had been talking about seeing Wall-E for several months prior to its release and I am kind of sorry we waited so long to see it. Whether you have or have not yet seen Wall-E click on the widget up top for some Wall-E fun where you can do things like meet the characters, explore the space ship and even build your own bot! The kids will love it!

Have you seen Wall-E?  What do you think about a future spent on hover chairs, interacting only with monitors and sipping big gulp dinners?