My WALL*E Review
A wonderful, magnificent,
thought-provoking, beautiful movie. (notice I italicized thought-provoking)
Definitely Pixar's best. It has some pretty strong messages of where we could be headed.
One of the biggest ironies; the movie's message is about the amount of consumerism and its effects. Now here is the irony. I don't know if this was available in the states or if it was just here in Canada, but with every child's admission you got a free watch this opening weekend. Well after seeing the quality of the watch and walking out of the theater, I wondered: why give out a literal piece of garbage, probably made in China after subjecting kids and adults to a movie showing what could happen to us in the future? All the watch is is a rubber wrist band with a little digital display, but it's very very poorly constructed and won't exactly last that long. How many people will actually enjoy it? And how many will toss it out and have it end up in the landfill? Was it really worth spending money on wasting the amount of energy into the production of this piece of trash (the watch,
not the movie )? I don't think so.
I loved the cameo appearance by Sputnik. And I started to laugh when WALL*E rolled up to the old refrigerator, I was thinking that Indiana was going to roll out of it.
Probably the best animated movie this year. One of the best sci-fi movies in a long time. This movie was a true masterpiece, and I hope to go see it again.
"5 Stars" "Two-thumbs way up" "A+"
Oh, and since this is a Pixar movie, John Ratzenberger is in it. We can't have a Pixar movie with out old Cliff Clavin can we?