The Many Happenings

When I first saw the trailer for Pixar’s latest creation, Wall-E, I thought to myself, “Is the world ready for another E.T?” They portrayed the tiny and cute robot in such a way so that kids will automatically fall in love with the squeaky box, but has Pixar forgotten about the rest of us?

The reason E.T is the masterpiece that it is is because the cute alien character was mixed with a very political and thought provoking story. Not just a cute alien character doing immature acts for cheap laughs from kids. As the trailer made it out to be, Wall-E was a robot that looks into a bra and screams and rolls around for 90 minutes, and that just didn’t catch my attention.

But it’s Pixar right? Pixar wouldn’t take all their time, money, and talent, and create something along the lines of Shrek 2 or 3, Shark Tale, or even Over the Hedge. Those films are created by other studios and predominatly made for kids, and pixar has always risen above them. Up to this point, Pixar has added that extra quality that allows everyone, children and adults, to love their films. Because of the respect I have of Pixar, and I had nothing else to do, I decided to go pay the overly expensive ticket and sit down amongst many screaming infants to watch America’s favorite new robot, Wall-E.

I knew that if the story was dumb, and if Wall-E did what he did in the trailer for 90 minutes, that I would still enjoy the technology and the beautiful imagry that Pixar has always provided.

Due to my surprise upon several minutes into the film I, just like all of the kids around me, I fell in love with Wall-E. He didn’t constantly sing and hum like he did in the trailer. He had a sophisticated role and the setting of the post-apocalyptic and dirty world was rendered beyond what is considered eye-candy.

I won’t give too much away because the surprises won’t be as effective if i do, but as Wall-E goes on his space adventure hilarious and entertaining events unroll one after another. The extreme political message here of what will happen to us if sit around and watch TV all day, or if we forget about the environment and let it go to waste, definitely won me over in terms of loving this film.

From the jaw-dropping opening sequences to the extremely touching climax, Pixar has done it again with Wall-E, and in my personal opinion, it has shot to the top of my favorite Pixar films. It is good that a movie like this was released when it was, because not only did it satisfy the children, it also entertained and even educated the adults to a point where they hopefully open up their minds and take a different path than that based on their bad habits.

I’m considering going to see Wall-E a second time.

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