Wall*E

Johnny 5 is alive! Waaall*Eeee!! Come on, you know you wanna say it in your computerized Mr. Roboto voice. Try it. Waaall*Eeee!!

So we saw Wall*E with the kids today. Gotta love those Pixar nerds. Have they made a flop yet? Those guys are pure geniuses. Been throwing around that label a lot lately. Gotta make sure I use it sparingly. Can't help it though. It is what it is.

As you might have guessed, the movie was just grrrreat. Honestly, in the middle, I got a little bored, but the beginning, ending, and overall feel of the movie made up for it. Sometimes, you just gotta wonder. How do people come up with this creative $hit? Cutesy movie. Funny jokes for the kids and adults. Unreal computer graphics. Really, those Pixar guys can do no wrong. Again, pure genius.

The movie's about Wall*E, this cleaning robot, whose primary job is to cleanse the Earth of all its trash. The humans have left Earth and gone into space to, well...find more space to live in. The world is just crap. Literally. It takes place in the future where humans are extremely lazy because of the convenience that technology offers. Somehow, Wall*E ends up the only robot left on Earth. To sum it up, the 1st third of the movie should be called "I Am Short Circuit."

The middle part of the movie finds Wall*E on the human mothership. All the humans are there living in the lap of luxury with all these specialized robots at their beck and call. This part I will call "Short Circuit Wars" because it reminded me of all the stormtroopers, R2D2, and C3PO when they were on that big a$$ Darth Vader ship running around. For some reason, I got bored during this part. It felt a little drawn out to me. I don't know why.

Throughout the movie, they have a little "Sleepless in Short Circuitry" going on 'cause there's a cute love affair between Wall*E and this other hottie robot. They even have the comparable old movie flick that the main characters longingly watch just like in Sleepless in Seattle. This is the cutesy, touchy-feely part of the movie that draws you in and makes you care about this Johnny 5 knockoff. That and the whole save the Earth theme permeating throughout.

One other thing of note. The movie hardly has any dialogue. They're robots, so there's a lot of beeps, whirs, whistles, and the sound your computer makes when it starts up. Deena and I would look at each other and laugh every time Wall*E rebooted and made that sound. You'll see. No subtitles either. This ain't no Crouching Tiger, Hidden Short Circuit. Parents get to see if their child's progressing normally and picking up on non-verbal cues.

The ending of the movie made it all worth it. I'm not going to spoil it for you. Hilarious and heartwarming with a message to us Humanoids. Pixar has done it again. Great movie...