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junk-filled planet, the film's star, WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth), who resembles a pair of sad-lensed binoculars mounted on a mini version of an Army tank, continues to do his job he was programmed to do 500 years before. As his acronym indicates, he's a garbage collector. Wall-E does his long-unnecessary tasks with an unstoppable determination similar to what the magic broom with a water bucket did in "Fantasia." His only pal is a real cockroach, one of the few Earth creatures who actually outlived the dinosaurs, and as we know, predicted by real scientists to be able to survive the final human holocaust.

When the two robots meet, as far as WALL-E is concerned, it is love at first sight. Wait a minute. What's that very familiar music we hear in the film background? The fact that EVE is a perfect doll of a sexy robot to WALL-E may have induced Pixar to play two songs from "Hello, Dolly", "It Only Takes a Moment" and "Put On Your Sunday Clothes". Does she fall in love at first sight, too? Well, not quite, because EVE is programmed to protect herself on the hostile Earth and her weapons are formidable. She explodes anything she perceives as hostile.

However, love conquers all. It is amazing how Pixar can create metal objects to show almost believable emotions, such as beaming with love, holding hands and strolling together. EVE obediently does her job of scanning the Earth's potential and completes her mission when she finds plant life. With love-struck WALL-E refusing to leave her, they soar back to the space station to show green samples and report to her human clients. Audiences are supposed to get the political agenda here about saving Earth by greening it.

Through most of the film there's no dialog, and the wonderfully emotional robots carry the story. Then, when the evil Fred Willard takes over, all hell breaks loose, threatening the two robot lovers and a return to Earth that will be even more devastating than the already barren planet had already suffered. Pixar, like it or not, brings in all kinds of agendas about conservation, greening, human idiocy and the usual politically-correct messages.

Despite the preachy ending, WALL-E is an enormously entertaining movie, and everyone from your three-year-old who's already better on the computer than you are, to your 90-year-old grandpa, who still longs for the day of the typewriter and telephone booth, will have a great time viewing it.

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