Movie #80: WALL-E

Movie #: 80
Movie Title: WALL-E
Year Released: 2008

Director: Andrew Stanton
Notable Cast: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, Sigourney Weaver, MacInTalk

Short Description: In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: #60
Ranker.com: #85
Lifed.com: #53
Empire.com: N/A
FilmCrave.com: #53
FlickChart.com: N/A



Date Watched: 7/16/2016

Grade: 3.5 out of 5 (Very Good)

Rationale: WALL-E is a movie I’d only seen once before and my initial perception after the first viewing was “eh”. Like this project as done for other movies, though, my feelings have changed for the better after another go. The love story between WALL-E and EVE is quite cute, especially WALL-E as he’s caring for EVE when she goes into standby mode. Animated movies have a hard enough time conveying convincing human emotions in their human characters, let alone non-human characters, but the animators and writers did a superb job here. As everyone has come to expect from Pixar, the imagery is second to none, particularly the outer space scene when WALL-E and EVE pass the rings of Saturn.