WALL-E, A Review

Well for July 4th we went to the movies. We took the kids along with Ricco and Savannah and Sophie's mom and dad to see Wall-E. This was a movie Peach has been begging to see, but I think she fell asleep, I'm not really sure I couldn't see her that good from where I was setting. See it was so packed and we had so many people in our group that we couldn't all set together, so Peach had to set with the kids in a row and we sat behind them and Ricco and Savannah set up front. Anyway this movie is one that can definitely wait to be rented. I guess the kids enjoyed it, but man there is absolutely no dialog. It reminded me of 'I am Legend' except no Will Smith and the premise for the movie is way, way, way out there. Apparently something happened on Earth, you never actually know what it is, but there aren't any humans on the planet and there was a ship that was keeping everyone alive out in space somewhere. Robots were doing everything for the people (which sounded pretty awesome, come on science let's make that happen) and they didn't have any idea what was going on on Earth. Basically the movie follows Wall-e, who is a trash robot tasked with cleaning up Earth and some other robot shows up, E.V.E, and then it kind of takes that old stand by story of boy robot meets girl robot and girl robot is way too advanced for boy robot, but boy robot continues to stalk girl robot and finally gets her to start turning his way, but then inexplicably locks up and. . . blah blah blah. Like I said, wait for this to come out on DVD or something. This was the kind of movie where someone should have stood up in the planning stages and said 'I'm not sure that this is such a good idea for a movie'. Coming from Pixar you kind of expect something pretty grand, but this is about the worst effort they've put forth. I guess when the two main characters can only say about 4 words between them the plot advancement is going to be a little slow. Anyway I think the gap between Pixar and the other digital animation studios has officially been closed, especially with the likes of Kung Fu Panda which was hands down better than this movie. I give Wall-E a 3 out of 5, only for the fact it was Disney and Pixar and it was pretty high quality with the robot graphics. Human graphics and plot were terrible. Hey at least nobodies Mom died. Sophie says that is because there wasn't a mom, but I say that is the difference between 3 stars and 5 stars.

Sophie won't rate the movie, but will rate the men of the Ohio Valley as pig-headed because 20 of them can walk out the door while a woman is holding it open, but none will offer to do it. Did I mention it was raining. What a bunch of jerks. Oh wait, I guess I didn't get the door either, but I had to high tail it to the car, I didn't want to get too wet.