Robot Parade

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery. -Comrac McCarthy. THE ROAD.

Wall-e is the cinematic achievement full of beautiful ironic scenery lovable characters (or is it a lovable character) and solitude of epic proportions. Wall-e (the cutest non fuzzy Pixar creation to date) is built to serve a human race that has seemingly disappeared after leaving there mess behind. Perhaps our eccentric Robot hosted a house party while his parents were a way? Oh Wall-e don’t you know best friends never stay to clean up? What ever the reason the earth is in a complete mess and Wall-e is left all on his own (if anything is cuter then charming eccentric its lonely charming eccentric) to clean up the filth. Sounds like a green peace Tour de force right? Well it is and it sickens me however in this garbage maze of save the environment propaganda hides the delicious cheese of Sci Fi Brilliance.

The kipple effect! Miles and miles of garbage piles converted into a skyline of Trash Buildings, did Wall-e build all these or is he in Seattle? Mechanical Maintenance engineers and a single cockroach the only thing left civilized? Is Wall-e Lonely? Can a robot dream of electric sheep? Is there really this much tribute to Phillip K Dick and Richard Matheson's stories this early on? Even if you haven’t read the works of those two Sci Fi Horror juggernauts you can still appreciate the irony. That is until Eve shows up then we are introduced to the work of Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke. Eve I think is suppose to be categorized as a “girl” robot. She has sudden mood swings and blasts anything and everything though has a touch of remorse when destroying an allready destroyed cruise liner, oh the irony! She and Wall-e hit it off but unfortunately for Wall-e Eve is more interested in her Directive then living with him in his junk yard planet. That’s right, Eve is a working Girl.

Eventually we blast off into space and find out the mystery of where everyone alive went (something cars didn’t care to mention) it’s a utopian society where everyone is cared for and work is a thing of the past. Truly a far better life then anyone could ever hope for, or is it? Very Isaac Asimov, very Sci Fi!

After these occurrences we get into the heart of the story by which I mean the feel good Disney bait and switch. The silent slow and cinematic pace is replaced by rushed dialogue (there’s dialogue now) earth history montages a Bologna space captain representing every single human character that didn’t receive a voice actor credit and a Very disappointing all be it touching ending to an other wise fan boy shout out to sci fi genius. Kind of reminds me of the time I watched A.I. and I Am Legend. Such potential *sigh*

Whats this? I must have missed the point? You Cleary don’t believe in the power of Love Bradly you cynical old fool you. The connection (I believe its DSL) of Eve and Wall-e fits right up there with Belle and the beast in heart string pulling fuzzy warm ness! Lonely old adorable Wall-e showed us all that a connection of love changes the heart (or hard drive) of a person into something better to something beautiful! Truly a message that out shines the over bearing Hippie green peace crap right? Well I’m going to have to disagree with you and agree with our old psychotic friend Friedrich Nietszche “The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”

Other then the third act I would say this is the best Pixar film to date. Its absolutly marvelous in appaerance and charming in character development (that is befor the Oscar Meyer Weiners show up) but like pervious Pixar films it seems to throw an ocean of endless depth in your face asking you to "JUMP IN THE WATERS FINE" only to find yourself with two broken legs on a shallow reef of unimaginative feel good crap endings. Thanks Pixar for the shallow puddle of an ending but I think I'll stick to drowning in your ocean of brilliance begennings.

definatly reccomend a viewing just not a repeted one.