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Your Guide to WALL-E
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- July 16, 2009
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The last time I fell in love with an animated character was in the 90's when I watched X-Men. Wolverine, anyone? Yeah. Before that, it was a strange attraction to Gogo Dodo in Tiny Toon Adventures. I can't quite explain that one, but he did say "It's been surreal" a lot, which scored points in my book. Anyway! Wall-E. I mean, Waaaaaall-EEEEE. Best movie I have seen in a long, long time, and one that occupied my thoughts for an entire weekend afterward.
The Lowdown on Wall-E
I’m not going to summarize or spoil the movie, but let me say this: I haven’t felt this affected, in my heart and mind, from a movie, one without real, live human characters at that, for quite a while.
There are all the themes that are relevant (love, loneliness, environmental awareness, companionship), but rather than try to pinpoint what makes it so great, I’ll just tell you to go see it, consume it, feel it.
The Official WALL-E Website
What else could you possibly need after seeing the movie? Well, maybe a copy of the movie already. Until then, amuse yourself online, download some ringtones, grab some backgrounds, play games, etc.
Odds and Ends
The Interpunct
That little dot in “Wall-E?” Not a hyphen, but an interpunct! And being the linguistics gal that I am, I thought I’d do a little educating amidst all this entertaining. Its origins are Latin, and it just may be the first piece of punctuation to show boundaries between words or letters. (Words ran together otherwise) Nowadays, you’ll see the interpunct in computerese and math-related things, but I bet you didn’t know what it was called!
The Sounds of Wall-E
Beyond the obvious need for an animated film to be visually appealing, sound is also important for the full experience. Pixar always does both well, but Wall-E really takes the cake.
The weekend after I saw it, I kept recreating the “clink” sound of Wall-E’s hands going together, as well as their overall melancholy look. So sad, and yet, so good!
Wall-E + Eve
I don’t want to tear up like a girl here, but Wall-E and Eve make my Top 10 Cinematic Couples list for sure. She’s a total bad-ass, he’s a sensitive, cautious and timid robot who just wants to hold her metal hand!
I couldn’t help but see parallels in my own life, and thus, the movie took on a deeper meaning for me in terms of relationships, wooing, and that precarious “getting to know you” stretch of time that is wrought with uncertainty, excitement and fear. And she comes around in the end, the look on her “face” priceless when she sees the footage of what Wall-E did while she was in her comatose state. Awwww.
Robot Love Stories
Just typing “robot love stories” makes me laugh, because it’s an idea that, on the surface, seems like it can’t work. How to translate such a human emotion to a machine? Well, it’s been done before, and Wired rounds up the best robot love stories in cinematic history.
Easter Eggs
Wall-E was in other Pixar movies???
Yep. In three of them actually: Toy Story, Cars, and The Incredibles. Check out this video to see for yourself!
WAIT, or was he? Check out the comments for info about this being a hoax! Pixar wouldn’t lie to us would it?
Some Reviews of Wall-E
Rotten Tomatoes' Take
At a whopping 96% Tomatometer!
The NYTimes Review
A.O. Scott reviews Wall-E, and as usual, interprets and reacts to films a hundred times more succinctly and intelligently than I ever could. In other words, the movie is “a cinematic poem of such wit and beauty that its darker implications may take a while to sink in.”
“It is, undoubtedly, an earnest (though far from simplistic) ecological parable, but it is also a disarmingly sweet and simple love story, Chaplinesque in its emotional purity.”
Seriously, how does he do that?
Some Clips and Trailers
Watch Tons of Trailers
I feel like I watched a trailer every month since last Christmas. Has advertising for WALL-E really been going on that long? Just like the movie, the trailers did not fail to deliver…I still laugh at them after repeated viewings.
What...
are you still doing reading this? Go out and see Wall-E! You’ve already seen it? Go see it again! Waaaalllleeee. Eeeeevaaaaa.
Buy N Large!!!
If you haven’t seen Wall-E, this won’t make sense yet, but check it out when you do.
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When is this movie coming out in Video? I can’t wait to see it.
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Who wouldn’t love those eyes!?
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Such a fantastic movie. You forgot to talk about all the controversy surrounding the movie. Not to spoil, but conservatives, liberals and fat people all feel this movie is attacking them.
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