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howeverbriefI forgot to mention I watched Wall-E with Austin a few nights ago. It's a cute little movie. Here's a review with a comic bonus.
Quick synopsis is Wall-E, a little trash-compacting robot, was left with a legion of similar robots to clean up trash for the human race, who rocketed into space into a comfortable life where robots do everything for them while waiting for the earth to be cleaned. 700 years later, Wall-E is the last of his kind but still compacting and rooting through the trash, looking for treasures and companionship. He is friends with a cockroach, but he watches romantic tapes at night and yearns for love.
Everything changes when Eve comes. Eve is a sleek robot searching for life on earth. Once she finds it, she shuts down and is taken back into space to prove that earth is inhabitable once again. Wall-E follows her, and we find out that the ship contains the human race, only now they are fat and lazy, drinking meals out of jumbo sized cups while they float on hover chairs and perpetually watch television/gab with friends.
The story takes off from there, with Eve needing to prove there is sustainable life on earth and Wall-E simply trying to get her attention. I won't say how it ends exactly, though you can probably guess.
So often Austin and I come out of movies discussing plot holes. This one had a lot of them, and we discussed bone mass and survival and other things that realistically rip the movie apart. About ten minutes into this conversation, Austin said, "Let's stop criticizing it and say it was cute."
It was visually stunning to be sure, and the rickety little trash unit Wall-E with his love for the more advanced technology of Eve was sweet. The overarching moral was "Take care of the earth, kids!" I guess that's better than some others, even if it was a little heavy handed.
All in all? Worth seeing, especially if you like silly little robots and futuristic stories.
EDIT: We also saw a preview for Beverly Hills Chihuahua that included singing chihuahuas. SINGING CHIHUAHUAS! I wished for sweet death several times during it, but it never came. Sometimes, I'm glad I'm not planning on having children.
Quick synopsis is Wall-E, a little trash-compacting robot, was left with a legion of similar robots to clean up trash for the human race, who rocketed into space into a comfortable life where robots do everything for them while waiting for the earth to be cleaned. 700 years later, Wall-E is the last of his kind but still compacting and rooting through the trash, looking for treasures and companionship. He is friends with a cockroach, but he watches romantic tapes at night and yearns for love.
Everything changes when Eve comes. Eve is a sleek robot searching for life on earth. Once she finds it, she shuts down and is taken back into space to prove that earth is inhabitable once again. Wall-E follows her, and we find out that the ship contains the human race, only now they are fat and lazy, drinking meals out of jumbo sized cups while they float on hover chairs and perpetually watch television/gab with friends.
The story takes off from there, with Eve needing to prove there is sustainable life on earth and Wall-E simply trying to get her attention. I won't say how it ends exactly, though you can probably guess.
So often Austin and I come out of movies discussing plot holes. This one had a lot of them, and we discussed bone mass and survival and other things that realistically rip the movie apart. About ten minutes into this conversation, Austin said, "Let's stop criticizing it and say it was cute."
It was visually stunning to be sure, and the rickety little trash unit Wall-E with his love for the more advanced technology of Eve was sweet. The overarching moral was "Take care of the earth, kids!" I guess that's better than some others, even if it was a little heavy handed.
All in all? Worth seeing, especially if you like silly little robots and futuristic stories.
EDIT: We also saw a preview for Beverly Hills Chihuahua that included singing chihuahuas. SINGING CHIHUAHUAS! I wished for sweet death several times during it, but it never came. Sometimes, I'm glad I'm not planning on having children.
