Friday WALL-E

It's movie review time!

First up is WALL-E, from Pixar studios. These guys know how to make a good animated family film. My taste in movies usually leans towards the dark and violent, but whenever I hear Pixar is coming out with a new one, I have to see it. This is the 9th movie by Pixar and this is the 9th Pixar movie that will (eventually) grace my dvd collection with it's presence.

The visuals are breathtaking. That isn't a fluff word that I am prone to just throw around either. The dingy and abandoned Earth that Wall-E starts out on is a masterpiece. The first part of the movie where the audience is treated to the everyday life of the little robot hero is enthralling. It's a view in hopelessness, but at the same time the way Wall-E goes about his job of cleaning up the mounds of garbage on an abandoned Earth is heartwarming. He has fun at work and you really get a feel for his personality. Later on when he travels into space, it gets even better. A dirty and dingy Wall-E running around a sterile space station leads to several highly amusing scenes. How the writers even came up with some of this stuff amazes me.

There are few times in my moving watching career that I have sat in the theater with my mouth agape, but this was one of those times. I never wanted the movie to end. It could have been 4 hours long and that would have been fine. I'm also a softy at heart and I'd be lying to you if I said I didn't get a little misty a few times during the movie.

Wall-E is the best of the Pixar movies to come out. Period. I'm not going to ruin any of the plot lines for the few of you who read this blog, but suffice it to say that paying to see this movie was a privilege.

-Twiz