Plot:
The year is 2700 and after hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for – cleaning up the planet – the ever faithful employee WALL-E (short of Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life when he encounters a sleek search robot named EVE. WALL-E and EVE travel across the galaxy and set into motion one of the most exciting adventures ever brought to the big screen!
Dads Space Review:
Pixar are the guys who make the kids films it’s ok for adults to watch without wanting to vomit. Over the last few years, with flicks like Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo and Toy Story, they’ve perfected the recipe. Take one cute but flawed character, add a colourful cast of hilarious supporting characters, drop in a tsp of emotion then mix it all up with generous amounts of humour and action. Wall-E is their latest triumph – it’s the tale of a dumpy clean up robot (who looks not unlike 80’s robot Johnny 5 from the Short Circuit movies) who falls in love with a sexy Apple Mac-styled probe droid named Eve. The epic adventure takes the duo all over the universe, as they try to coax mankind to return to Earth.
Despite an obvious ecological message, the film manages to avoid feeling preachy thanks to Wall-E’s charisma – he’s a cute little fella, and he manages to hold the attention of kids effortlessly as he tries to understand humans by wading through their rubbish. There are a few mildly scary or tense moments that might frighten really young kids, but all the children at our screening loved it. You’d have to be a Wall-E to miss this one.