WALL.E
Hope... Virtue... Solitude... Devotion... Sorrow... Love...
monday after work rushed down to PS with jin
bought the long awaited ticket for WALL.E!
a really nice show, while it can be ABIT boring in the beginning
please watch through the show entirely
dun be like CLOVIS
"i watch it for 10 mins, fell aslp...
woke up after 10 mins and i walk out of the cinema"
i think i almost slapped him on the spot...
anyway, below is a review of the movie that i wrote in www.imdb.com
read thru if you think my comment matters
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"If we can live in a real world with cold blooded criminals
Why can't we watch an animated film with heart warming robots?
I had just watched WALL.E earlier this week - it is without a doubt one of the best animated film i've ever watched and i find it a challenge to describe the brilliance of this show. Note that i am not trying to change the minds of people who finds this show "over-rated" or "a retarded show". To each their own, i have the rights to love, they have the rights to dislike.
WALL.E - acronyms for Waste Allocation Load Lifter.Earth-class, is a film that sets our hero as a robot named WALL.E. WALL.E is a lonely robot who dutifully collects waste, compresses them into square cubes and neatly stack them together, forming skyscrapers of dumps and trashes with only an indestructible roach as his companion ever since human left Earth due to over pollution and dump wastes. After 700 years of solitude, a sudden visit of a spaceship introduces WALL.E to EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) a sleek white high tech robot who was deployed back to Earth to search for plantation life form on Earth for hopes of human returning home. It was love at first sight for our squarish friend and he embark on an adventure of his life time to seek out his heart-throb.
The concept is real. The pollution and great increase in the damage of our environment is not some cock and bull story to frighten people into conserving and caring for our planet Earth.
The animation is fantastic. The 3D effect of the show made the world look pretty much too real at times, small details like the cloudy atmosphere, reddish sky, dried up ground, all the way down to the pebbles and debris contributes to the art of a great animation.
The storyline is simple. Yes, its simple and sweet, and thats what makes the show an enjoyment for people. a robot falls in love with another robot, he seek her out, help her in her mission to recover a plant, and earth sweet earth... its that simple! think again, there ain't many shows that can be this simple and yet so captivating right?
The portray of WALL.E as a simple minded robot is impressive, he have character, determination, personality and most important of all, a human heart. EVE is not one robot to belittle either, her cute laughter, occasion aggressive approach, fierce loyalty for her job and strong-will makes her a lovable character too! Many other robots in the show is like the icing on a cake, they are small, but they are indispensable, each of them have their own unique feature.
Pixar continues to surprise and pleases us in many many different ways, while the whole story is mostly about WALL.E and EVE's romance and journey. The message which is being delivered is crystal clear - "Save The Environment" - nothing much to elaborate here right? Another message which is entrenched within is none other than... us.
The people in the animation is shown to be over-sized creatures who relies on technology for everything. Each and everyone slouching on a hovercraft that provides transportation and virtual communication, robots at their beck and call, clap once for a drink, click a button for change of clothes. Most people, and most reviews i read state that this is obviously showing our pending downfall due to die-hard reliance on electronic applications and gadgets. I however not only see the humans end result inside depicted as our future... I happens to view it as our PRESENT. It maybe quite an extreme way of an example, but think again... we are constantly submerging ourselves in material needs, doing what we are 'suppose' to do, studying, working, going through the rat race of every aspect in our own tiny world thinking the sun revolves around us, neglecting the bigger world out there, and what i think is that we need a push to get us out of the virtual chairs, and start noticing what we have around us.
Conclusion: Strongly encourages all of you out there to catch this movie, while i can't assure you that you will love it, it may just get you thinking about things in many different light. For me at the very least, WALL.E really got me thinking a lot, from the simplicity of the storyline, to the complexity of the messages hidden within. WALL.E satisfy me more than any animated show so far and Pixar is in for a challenge to produce a better film than this... but then again, i thought of the same line after "Finding Nemo" and voilà! Along came WALL.E.
9.5/10"
The tears dropped on
Thursday, September 04, 2008...
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