We're going all the way back to June 2008 on Friday as the LRC cinema presents a critically acclaimed and award-winning eco-friendly sci-fi animation by Pixar and Walt Disney of a robot that's essentially a trash compactor appropriately named WALL·E (remember what his name meant?) designed to clean up an abandoned, waste-covered Earth far in the future.
He falls in love with another robot named EVE who also has a programmed task and follows her into outer space on a charming adventure that changes the destiny of both his kind and humanity. Who says popular films can't be art? There was a reason everyone found the movie golden back then. At that time, the animation was already flawless and realistic. It eclipsed even Toy Story in the Pixar pantheon and is perhaps the company's best film to date.
He falls in love with another robot named EVE who also has a programmed task and follows her into outer space on a charming adventure that changes the destiny of both his kind and humanity. Who says popular films can't be art? There was a reason everyone found the movie golden back then. At that time, the animation was already flawless and realistic. It eclipsed even Toy Story in the Pixar pantheon and is perhaps the company's best film to date.
There are many little things in the film that have so much meaning to them. There are things that will be nostalgic to older viewers (there are obvious homages to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey), and things that younger viewers will love to look at. However, it does steer for the cheesy, cliché aspects of a child's film yet still remaining a completely G-rated film. It's actually perfect for everyone.
WALL-E ranks first in TIME 's "Best Movies of the Decade". Strongs critiques about larger societal issues like consumerism, corporatism, nostalgia, environmental problems, waste management, human impact on the environment, and risks to human civilization are addressed as the vision of Earth being a garbage-strewn wasteland (and humans as hoverchair-bound lumps who can barely walk) speaks volumes. See you in the Grade School Learning Resource Center on August 14 at 4:00 P.M.!
