Rating: [rate 5.0]

What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off?

Academy Award®-winning writer-director Andrew Stanton (“Finding Nemo”) and the inventive storytellers and technical geniuses at Pixar Animation Studios (“The Incredibles,” “Cars,” “Ratatouille”) transport moviegoers to a galaxy not so very far away for a new computer-animated cosmic comedy about a determined robot named WALL-E.

After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL-E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet’s future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans (who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home). Meanwhile, WALL-E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most exciting and imaginative comedy adventures ever brought to the big screen.

I’ve been curious about Wall-E ever since I’ve seen the trailer, and I’m really glad that we got this movie for Movie Night at work. :)

Wall-E is pretty much a silent movie, and the first thirty minutes or so of the movie showed what Wall-E was doing in a very deserted and polluted Earth. Together with a cockroach friend, Wall-E goes by his everyday life doing what he was programmed to do (his directive) by compacting trash, but also doing some searching and collecting of random odds and ends he finds in his beat-up lunchbox. At the end of his day, he goes home, sets aside all his collections and then watches his favorite old movie Hello Dolly, trying out their dance moves and wishing for someone to “hold hands” with.

Then comes EVE, an advanced robot (with more computer memory than Wall-E) from the Axiom, where all human beings are staying because of the polluted state of the Earth. She’s an interesting robot, one who we thought was pretty but had anger management issues and is far from demure. :P Eve pays little attention to Wall-E at first, who was smitten with her and tries to win her attention. It wasn’t until she was saved from a sandstorm that she finally paid some attention to Wall-E, who tried to win her over by showing her all his random collections (including a VERY cute dance number), but it wasn’t until he showed her the plant he found that she went into hibernate mode, waiting for the mother ship to pick her up.

And from here we get to see Wall-E’s devotion to Eve, and the start of his big adventure outer space. That’s when the first humans who are not part of the holograms on Earth show up, and we see humans who are not only VERY obese, but also too lazy and too much in their own world that they don’t see what exactly is happening to them.

It’s a very, very cute and endearing movie with only a few quotable quotes since all Wall-E and Eve says are “Wall-E!” and “E-vaaah!”, but their actions and their motivations are clearly shown in the movie. I was really amused with the captain, and I really loved how they all stood up against the robots in the movie. Oh, and seeing Earth like that, and all those humans like that is kind of alarming and scary — may we never reach that stage.

Overall it’s a really good movie. It would make you laugh, say “awww” and be determined just like Wall-E. :) Oh, and if you’re a geek, you’d love the references to Apple as well as how Wall-E was revived at the end. :D

Because of this movie, I now want a Wall-E toy. :D The one that sings and dances! Someone give that to me for Christmas!