Edinburgh International Film Festival

WALL-E, directed by Andrew Stanton, is a new film from PIxar Animation, and is the story of a robot named WALL-E who, along with thousands like him, is charged with cleaning up Earth’s dangerous trash levels while the humans evacuate to a massive space ship called Axiom. After leaving Earth, the humans embark upon what they think will be a one hundred year cruise around space. WALL-E, on the other hand, stays behind to clean up. However, after seven hundred years, WALL-E is the last of his kind, and the last robot functioning on Earth. He has still continued cleaning up the Earth, but without the help of the other robots he cannot fix much. During his long solitude, he has developed a personality, and is very curious about some of the objects he finds in the trash heaps. For seven hundred years he cleans, until one day, a shiny new robot he’s never seen before lands on Earth. In his attempts to make first contact, he is wrapped up in a drama he could never have expected.
WALL-E is a fun and exciting film. It is, however, slightly disappointing when compared to the hype that led up to it in the theaters and posters. The story is very interesting and endearing. The animation is superb. I give it four stars.