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Wall-E

Saturday, January 3, 2009 12:40:12 PM

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Wall-E is one of the best animated movies I've seen, well, it's one of the best movies I've seen for a long time. It's rated number 34 in imdb's top 250, 8.6 stars and it deserves every star. It's tied with Toy Story 2 (funnier than Wall-E, cruder in animation, but it still warrants a sort of nostalgic liking) as my favorite animated movie. And unsurprisingly, both are Pixar.

Wall-E is animated, sci-fi, and a romantic-comedy! And, it mellifluously shifts between these genres. The story is relatively simple, but is incredibly done.

The animation is nearly flawless. Earth, or whatever remains of it, looks eerily real. Wall-E, the other robots (Mo, Eve, the stewards, the police and the rogues) look great. The live-action footage (Fred Willard and scenes from 'Hello, Dolly') are seamlessly inserted into the movie.

Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Earth-Class) is one of the most endearing characters in recent movie history. It's rare that an audience emphasizes with a character, let alone an animated one. Wall-E is funny, charming and clumsy (very Chaplin like), and he does all this without even saying a word! The scene where Wall-E shields EVE from from the capricious Earth weather is particularly heart-warming. So is the climax (EEEEE-Vah!).

As a science fiction movie, Wall-E has a very relevant message. We, humans, are destroying the Earth. We do realize our vision of utopia, but it comes at the price of the planet. We've generated so much garbage, that it becomes impossible to sustain life on the planet. We're so dependent on machines, that we become obese, almost inhuman, with no human physical contact and largely unaware of our surroundings. For anyone skeptical of such a vision of humanity, refer to the obesity figures over progressive years. As a science fiction movie, it is very much reminiscent of '2001: A Space Odyssey'.

In conclusion, Wall-E is one of the best movies of the year and is a must watch. A sure shot 'Best Animated Film' at the Oscars.

9 out of 10

It's finally over. Ghajini

Comments

Deke Friday, January 16, 2009 10:28:33 PM

I think you deserve 9 out of 10 for getting the word 'mellifluously' into a blog. I am now taking up the challenge and will try to ease the word 'conniption' into my next entry into the void.

King NutinKingnutin Saturday, January 17, 2009 9:07:59 AM

The magic of Thesaurus. The word smoothly sounds too ordinary, normal, mundane, dull, staid, arid, blah, colorless, dreary, driveling, dry, hackneyed, hoary, insipid, jejune, longwinded, monotonous, oft-repeated, plain, pointless, prolix, prosaic, prosy, repetitious, routine, soporific, stale, stock, stupid, tedious, tiresome, trite, unimaginative, uninspiring, vapid, worn-out.

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