Wall-E: New on DVD and Blu-ray Disc

“Wall-E”
Directed by Andrew Stanton, written by Stanton and Jim Reardon, 103 minutes, rated G.
The last time Disney and Pixar teamed up for a movie, it was in the Academy Award-winning “Ratatouille,” a magnificent film that followed one determined, loveable little rat named Remy, who may have been raised to eat trash, poor thing, but who nevertheless dreamed big of becoming a master chef and full-on gourmand.

The film is set hundreds of years in the future, with Earth now burnt to a near crisp and overcome by mountains of trash piled as high as the skyscrapers surrounding them. There, working diligently at ground level is Wall-E, the adorable robot with the sloping cameras for eyes and a clunky body whose job it is to neatly package all the waste we humans left behind before fleeing the planet when it no longer could sustain us.


Since Eve is programmed to return any sort of plant life to the Axiom for study, off she goes, with Wall-E tagging along for an adventure that consumes the rest of the movie. Though the twists and turns that ensue won’t be revealed here, it is safe to say this: While aboard the Axiom, which is owned by an evil corporate giant reminiscent of Wal-Mart, echoes of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001” abound, with the movie not only becoming about man against machine, but also machine against machine.

Coming away from it, you might want to just hand Disney and Pixar the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature now. It’s that good, and it’s difficult to imagine a better, more impressive animated film released this year.
Grade: A
0 comments:
Post a Comment