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I had HUGE expectations for this movie. It's unfair, but after so many trailers and short films of Wall-E, I was awaiting THE best movie of the year. But having seen Kung Fu Panda last Sunday and The Dark Knight this afternoon, Wall-E turned out to be a bit disappointing. Maybe I shouldn't have watched it immediately after the epic Dark Knight, but if not now, whenever?!
Don't get me wrong, absolutely not! It's a great movie and you'll be well entertained. Wall-E is an adorable character and the emotions he's experiencing alone on earth and later on with Eve, are genuine and understandable. You'll love him! And when Eve enters the game, you'll love her too. And that's where Pixar succeeded wonderfully; even though there isn't a lot of dialog between the main characters, you'll feel attached to them. Pixar created wonderful new characters into their already vast collection. It's a beautiful story about love, friendship and loneliness.
But the movie let me down on exactly the point where I expected the movie to fail. The story is about Wall-E, a garbage droid who's alone on earth cleaning up the mess humanity left after departing to space. So a large part of the time we see Wall-E alone. No dialogs; only the interaction between him and his cockroach-friend. But these settings we've already seen in the trailers. And it's here that the movie turns out to be a bit boring and gets you thinking:"When is anything going to happen?!". Only when Wall-E follows Eve into space, back to the spaceship where humanity is living large, the adventure kicks in.
Again, the characters are adorable. I overheard people talking about the characters as they were leaving the screening, saying they didn't feel any "click" with them. I did. I've always been a fan of sentimental movies, like E.T. and that's what you can compare Wall-E with. It's a great movie to go see with your children or little cousins; especially they will love the movie. It contains a good message for them. My son has had a Wall-E-poster for months now in his room and we were both highly anticipating this movie. Now that I've seen it, I'm curious to know what he'll think of it.
The animation is beautiful and at times even better than Kung Fu Panda. Sound is good, with some usage of classical tunes. After disappointing me last year with Ratatouille, Pixar made up with me with Wall-E. But still, it could have been more adventurous and exciting than this final result.
My rating: 8 out of 10 |