Dubbed "the most defining film of our time"....

No. I refuse to believe that an animated film, let alone a Disney film can be the most defining film of our time, and if it was, the film industry is in a sad sate indeed.

Wall-E however was a fantastic film. So good in fact that i feel Disney Pixar films have redeemed themselves after the atrociousness of Cars and Ratatouile or whatever it was, and the slight inadequacy of Incredibles. Yes if Disney Pixar films were M.Night Shamyalaskajskaslan Cars would have been the equivalent of the Happening.

But Wall-E has possibly rivales my appreciation of Finding nemo and Toy Story. Firstly it is a mainstream Pixar film which is essentially a Sci-Fi so first impressions are of course good.

The film opens with some quite breathtaking scenes of a kind of Post-apocalyptic world, showing a city with sky-scrapers, but they are not all buildings. Some are piles of rubbish. I likes that imagery. And who has staked all of those. well the suriving member of the Wall-E design of robot of course. And secure in my mascilinty, i am proud to say, even though made up of pixels, and he had no face, he was cute wasn't he. Lets all give a big AWWWWWWW for poor old lonely Wall-E. Whose curiosity and inquistiveness when it came to picking up random objects from the heaps of litter was both "adorable" and amusing. In fact the first 10 minutes or so, before the girly robot turned up were probably, especially visually, some of the best in the movie.

It also provided a good social commentary on what the world could turn out like, if we don't stop being so wasteful and polluting (he says while using a computer which uses electricty which produces CO2 emmissions, but not my fault i was more than happy to continue my film diary on paper, but anyway lol).
I thought the way the film used live action, real people in the screens was quite cool also.

Yeah so the girly robot turned up and the "love story" began. And although i went in sceptical, i guess it was just about an effective "CGI-Robot-Sci-Fi-Rom-Com".
What I really liked about the film was that there were loads of kids in the audience, and there were hardly any moments where they all erupted in an annoying laughter. Basically this was not a kids film. (In fact the most child appealing bit was the mini film before it, which was actually quite funny).

Yes so Wall-E follows her about a bit, like a typical teenage boy who is naivly in love with a better looking and more sophisticated model than him (they are robots remember) and basically stalks her). And then they get a bit friendly. But not just friends. The kind of friends that if they were at a party together and they had both consumed a tad more alchol then they should have, their inibitions would be lowered enough for them both to get up to some "monkey business". So yeah they're progressing along the romantic storyline all nicely, and then, to flatter a girl - he gives her a plant. A plant growing out of a boot. No wonder she shuts down on him. I mean he lives in a glorified shed, and gives her a plant. Anyway so he gets struck by some lightening, and gets all up set by this.

(oh and i forgot, who got really worried when they though Wall-E ran over his little bug friend lol).

Until one day (an unspecified amount of time later), the ship comes back. And Wall-E runs all the way back to EVE.... awwww. And hangs on the side of the ship through a long journey in space, which you have to wonder, was this added in the plot as an oppurtunity for PIXAR to demonstrate their really good CGI skills.

Now one of the best bits of the movie for me was when they get on the ship with all the "humans". I think this film provided a great bit of social commentary here, how everyone was Rick Waller size and plugged in to technology. Especially the bit where two men were floating in their chairs and talking to each other through the computer, but they were right next to each other. And how when Wall-E knocks off two of them, a man and a woman, they start to see life for what it really is. Which suggests that we should all abandon the technology to experience real life. Much like that new really "deep" Persil advert with the robot in the rain that only becomes human once he has experience a bit of real life, in the form of dirt - but its ok because persil will wash it out.

Another good bit is when we see all the people floating in their chairs entering the "economy". You have to see the film , but once again a great piece of social commentary.
We are introduced to the computer that controls the whole place, which of course is a rip off of the computer from 2001 a Space odyssey, which is a nice little bit of intertextuality, once again another aspect of the film aimed at the older audiences.

(groans) i'm tired. So i can't be bothered to continue right now. So ill finish soon lol.
The captain becomes a hero and gets off his fat ass. He realises that just like the plant in the boot the Earth just needs people to take care of it. Maybe a reference to the Christian idea of Stewardship there lol. Errr, yeah Wall-E nearly dies, but of course there was no suspense because, after all this was a disney pixar film so no one can actually be seen to die (ok maybe there was a little bit of suspense and worry for poor old Wall-E).

They get back to Earth, a fat captain beats the evil computer. And Eve fixes Wall-E.
But wait. Wall-E after his mass reffitting seems to have some kind of amnesia. Oh no. Will a disney film have an unhappy ending that may shatter the hopes and dreams of all those children watching. Surely not. And of course it didn't. He remembered her thanks to a Anaphoric reference to some scenes earlier in the film and they finally got to hold hands ahhhh. Nahh but I was happy for them really.

However quite possibly the best thing about this cinematic experience was my first viewing of the first HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3 TRAILER WHOO, Mr Dutaut will hate me for that lol.

But no in all seriousness a fantastic, enjoyable, funny and suprisingly (you know them being robots made of CGI, and there be not much dialoue, a very emotional film), and i'm sad that it ended.

However a message to you, Disney Pixar: I DO NOT WANT TO SEE WALL-E 2, BEING ON THE LIST OF MY FRIEND DANIELS BLOG POST ENTITLED "SEQUELS THAT SHOULD'NT HAVE BEEN MADE, BUT WERE". YES YOU DID GOOD, BUT DO NOT CASH IN A SEQUEL.

Right there i told you.
Now only a few days to BATMAN THE DARK KNIGHT. can't wait. Shame Heath ledger didn't turn up at the world premire and say it was a PR stunt like we were all secrety hoping though.

Anyway back to Wall-E, i give it a 8/10 - which is the highest rating i will give a film that doesn't actually ahve real people in it. I'm gald Disney Pixar films have been redemmed.