A Nerd Reviews

It is the future, and, of course, human-kind left Earth an uninhabitable mess and somebody else’s problem. And while the children of earthlings eat and shop themselves into a stupor, one small, sentient robot continues to stack garbage on Earth. But Pixar’s WALL-E does not just stack garbage; he collects garbage, plays with garbage, and dreams about the love and companionship he watches in old movies and is unable to experience himself, that is, until EVE arrives.

At a little over an hour and a half in length, Pixar’s latest computer-animated movie, WALL-E, requires the patience and attention span of a slightly older audience and an equally forgiving nature from that older audience.

People are getting fat and lazy, the world is being polluted beyond repair, and no one, especially the government and big business, wants to take responsibility. This has been said before, and WALL-E does not just preach, it bashes you over the head. And just when you thought you could not take anymore, it makes you smile.

There is not much dialogue in the film and there is, in fact, no dialogue in the first half hour. Oh, there is plenty of entertainment, with all the emotive nuances of a great Buster Keaton performance, but the subject matter and the dialogue-scarce execution is not going to register with the average eight and under age group.

With that said, it is beautiful and sweet and lives up to we have come to expect from Pixar: An intelligent, caring movie for almost all ages.