Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class loves Extraterrestrial Vegetation Examiner.

In 700 years time Earth will be so filled with garbage that we will have no choice but to leave it behind in favor of life on a space cruiser. On leaving our once great planet however we forgot one little thing: to shut down the last operating Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class, or WALL-E for short. For 700 years he has been alone on Earth cleaning up the garbage while collecting various trinkets (hubcaps, light bulbs, etc.). But WALL-E is extremely lonely and wants nothing more then to have someone in his life to hold his hand. Then when a automated spaceship deposits a Extraterrestrial Vegetation Examiner (EVE), WALL-E's adventure that will change the course of human history begins.

What makes Wall-E, the latest Disney/Pixar animated movie, such an interesting film is the fact that you follow robots who, instead of speaking, communicate with various beeps, gasps and electronic noises. This has been somewhat of a double-edged sword when it comes to attracting an audience as some relish the idea of this unconventional approach to storytelling while others feel alienated by it.

But let me assure you now that it works brilliantly. You quickly realize that WALL-E and EVE (as well as the other robots that show up later on) probably say more then the humans in the movie do. Because when you take away conventional language you are stuck with raw emotion being conveyed in the simplest form possible, making Wall-E the most believable love story I can remember having seen in a long time. You truly believe that robots can fall in love and it doesn't take long before you no longer see two robots, but two individuals.

The world Wall-E takes place in is a bleak and distopian future that, even though exaggerated, can gives you pause about where we are going as an ever technological evolving society. This is the other side of Wall-E that is the reason it works as well as it does. The world is not that far of a stretch to imagine and therefore becomes realistic in a terrifying kind of way.

When it comes to the humans in the film, people who have evolved into almost boneless blobs due to living in space for so long, the voice-acting reaches the level of excellence we have come to expect from any Disney or (even more so in the resent years) Pixar movie. We get Sigourney Weaver as the voice of the Space Cruiser's main computer and it feels a little out of place having such a recognizable voice in a movie were every human voice is, and should be, unrecognizable and new.

Wall-E is a movie that is either very easy or extremely hard to criticize depending on were you stand on following main characters that don't speak in any conventional way. If you think it worked perfectly and it is a better movie for it (and you should) then you will find very little in Wall-E that is negative. There are some plot holes that don't really stand out in a large way, but if you think about it they do become clear. The Earth being covered in garbage is maybe the largest one and in a future were we can fly though space and invent artificial intelligence, dealing with garbage shouldn't be a major concern.

Visually Wall-E stands out by reaching a new level of CGI excellence were at times you forget you are watching an animated movie. This is backed up by having images of real life humans popping up here and there that, all though standing out next to the CGI human blobs in the movie hold up perfectly next to the robots in the movie.

But overall Wall-E is a special kind of movie that works for kids of all ages while still offering enough for adults and teens, asking some very philosophical questions lost on the younger crowd. Simply said this is a must see, so stop reading and do so now.