WALL-E
written and directed by Andrew Stanton
starring Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, Sigourney Weaver

Pixar strikes hard yet again with this thrilling and occasionally melancholy film about the oft times reckless struggle for love and its enduring consequences. The film uses stock footage, live action and terrific animation to covey its story that also deals with the cloudy presumptions of the typical human consumer. The animation is futuristic and traditional at the same time. It possesses a sharpness that comes through in every frame. Essentially, it's an occasionally dark little film with just enough explorations into alienation and fear to keep the adults occupied as they sit with little Suzy and Leo who are going to go completely nuts over WALL-E.

The terrible vestiges of sacred love. In this scintillating romp through the known galaxy, human beings have nearly destroyed earth and have taken the liberty to colonize space. They have left behind so much garbage that the toxic fumes have left the planet uninhabitable. Left behind to clean up the trash is WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth Class) (Burtt) a personable robot who has been performing the same rudimentary task for seven hundred years. He collects anything that looks interesting and brings them back to his well-stocked abode. Only now, he's the only one left, and his existence is fraught with terrible pangs of loneliness. Then she comes to earth and everything changes.

EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) (Knight) is brought to Earth to search for vegetation. WALL-E is immediately smitten by the finely crafted, elegant, and dare I say sexy new machine. They play cutesy for a while before finally making contact. WALL-E shows Eve a plant he's been caring for and EVE places it inside her and immediately shuts down. This puts WALL-E into a stark panic and he goes to great lengths to watch over his love. However, EVE's home ship returns and takes her aboard. Desperate and determined not to lose touch with EVE, WALL-E attaches himself to the ship. This propels WALL-E into space where the ship reaches the home base. Inside, humans are lazily being carted around on electric lounge chairs. Everything is done for them by robots so they have naturally gained tremendous weight. They spend their time shopping in the enormous mall or playing virtual tennis or golf.

At first EVE is standoffish and plays

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