by Rianne Hill Soriano

Created on: October 04, 2010

For the "nth time," Pixar creates an animated masterpiece pushing the limits of computer animation and storytelling possibilities. By now, it's safe to say that Pixar's creative genius appears to have no boundaries: from the vastness of the sea to the nooks and cranny of the kitchen to the galaxy far, far away...

Wrapped around in a romance so touching and engaging courtesy of its pair of robots in the main roles, WALL-E is one of the best love stories ever told in the big screen.

Another groundbreaking work from the makers of the now classic animated films Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and Ratatouille, this animated masterpiece about a robot's journey as he travels the vastness of the universe to be with his beloved wins the heart of the human audience. It leaps beyond its mechanical pieces to convey emotions of true love. It is very simple on many aspects, but at the same time, it is pure of movie magic. It is a rare picture of hope, wonder, and joy. Its every deft little touch brings complex, heartfelt circuitry to the characters; thus, transporting the viewers into a cosmic place filled with the future's "what if's." All these are presented through the eyes of the main character WALL-E, a poetic figure of a robot drawn to human splendor.

So far and yet so near... The story primarily showcases robots and humans enslaved by technology. And this archetypal fable about loneliness and love is both simple and deep. The filmmakers extends the parameters of the art form to create a whole new universe of pure emotional content, amidst the film's very superficial blueprint and physicality. The genuinely heartwarming story may happen hundreds or thousands of years and light-years away, with all the machines programmed to do specific physical works and humans don't even know what touching a fellow human being is like, but there is an amazing amount of life and humanity all throughout the film. Indeed, the wit, invention, and sheer charm of a wonderful story told well can never lose its touch regardless of the kind of character and mise-en-scene used.

Withstanding the pitfalls of human existence as a Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class robot, WALL-E is an utterly adorable character with a welcome surge of honesty, impishness, introspection, humor, determination, and sentimentality. This "humanly mechanical hero" supplies such surprising and engaging moments with his earnest robot reverie. He is built with such emotion, brains, and humor that the heart of the story

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