Wall-E (2008)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2008
	Director: Andrew Stanton (A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo, Finding Dory, John Carter)
	Actors (voices): Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, Sigourney Weaver
	Country: USA
	Genre: Animation, SF
	Conditions of visioning: 24.02.2017, VOD, 11" tablet screen
Synopsis: The compacting robot Wall-E is alone on a deserted Earth, until a visiting ship and the probe Eve wrecks havoc to his routine.
Review: I found the incredibly touching character of the anthropomorphic Wall-E different from the other Pixar anthropomorphic toys, bugs, fishes, monsters and cars in that it is a hero that doesn't speak, which made it all the most difficult for the animators to convey emotion, and the result all the most gratifying. The movie is surprising in many other regards: a long introduction (although not as touching as the one of Up), almost no spoken dialogs apart from commercial announcements until half the movie, and an self-criticism that I didn't know common in Americans, in the way they criticize their way of life with more food, getting fat, driving cars, no social contacts, buying large, large corporations... But I have already been surprised by how Pixar talked about food in Ratatouille. Beyond the animation of the characters the whole movie is visualy stunning: from Earth's desert to the depth of space, we are transported by the camera movements. The whole movie revolves around the cute little robot and his human feelings of curiosity, loneliness, search for love... Pixar's animators nailed perfectly the design of this little guy. Around him revolve a galaxy of secondary characters no less interesting; Eve, the bug, the captain, the defective robots, M-O... making Wall-E one of the greatest successes of the company before it was bought by Disney and I could say pessimistically lost its soul.
Rating: 8 /10