Wall-EEEEEEEEEE!
I just saw Wall-E, and when I entered the theater, I expected a cutsey-wootsey, cheesy little ditz of a film. Boy, was I shocked! It’s like a straight guy chasing skirts across the world. Then he gets to Scotland.
Ugh.
Not thinking about it.
Anyway, it was far from cutsey- although it was cute. WallE is the single survivor of the robots tasked to clean up the mess humans have made before they all left earth for a paradise space-ship, and the world has become too toxic- at least, that’s what it seems- for any plant or animal life to grow. That is, until WallE discovers a single, tiny plant, sprouting hidden beneath the mountains of garbage and toxic waste from the humans. When an emmisionary robot called Eva arrives to see if Earth is suitable for humans, she and WallE fall in love, and when she finds the plant, they leave together to inform the humans. But humans have become fat and lazy, and the auto-pilot ship is unwilling to show the plant to humans and give up its control. But with a little help from some humans and the captain, and all the rebel robots (if you can call some salon-worker and kick-boxer robots, “rebels”), WallE and Eva might just be able to bring the human race home.
This movie is both funny, sad, happy, and beautiful all at once, reminding us to take care of our planet. For WallE has shown what will happen then- and what we can do to bring forth life. And hope.
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