the ‘-e’ stands for endearing

If there’s one thing I love about summer, it’s the movies.  This year is no exception.  It got off to an early start with super-hero flick Ironman which was a brisk dive into the cool, refreshing waters of this years blockbusters.

Then Kung Fu Panda (which I still have to see), to the other Avengers series movie The Incredible Hulk (which was great).

And now, we have Wall-E.

Smack dab in the middle of movie season, we have what seems to be one to take the award for sweetest movie.

Wall-E is a robot.  He lives on earth and he lifts and loads.  He runs on treads and he has a home.  He seems like a run-of-the-mill robot a la Short Circuit, but there’s something about the organic panache of a Pixar movie that can make run-of-the-mill extraordinary.

I am a deep deep fan of Pixar all the way back to Toy Story (for the record, I think that Toy Story 2 is a better movie than the first) so expect bias to bleed through the veins of this review.  Now let me go over the flair that Pixar brings to this film.

The production in this films goes to great length to tell story, through everything: movement, color, expression, size, form, shape, style, sound, et cetera.  It leads you frame-by-frame telling the story of a robot and his misadventures.

It’s amazing to note that the talent cast to lend their voices is few.  That said, there a few lines of dia- and mono- or even logue at all and this takes the amazement even further.  Emotions are conveyed through the smallest of gestures from fingers of hands slowly unfurling to the quick blink of an eye.  You could feel the sense of embarrassed anxiety with an upturned brow and twiddled thumbs.  The one thing that this movie does not fail to deliver is feeling, all without cheap talk.  They breathed feeling into each of the characters in the movie giving a spectrum of personalities with which you can choose to identify.

The score was beautiful, further immersing you into the mysterious world that is foreign enough to be fantastic but familiar enough to keep you grounded.

Wall-E goes deep with the -isms of the time.  Consumerism, capitalism, and greenism among other -isms are encountered with gravity.

I’m running out of adjectives and verbs to describe this wonderful piece of art.  If there’s anything else I can say about the movie, it’s this:  watch it.  Talk is cheap, remember?