WALL•E
With a 9.3 rating on IMDB, 96% on rottentomatoes, and 93% on metacritic, Wall-E is Pixar’s big summer hit. I just got back from seeing it yesterday with Wendy, and it’s as good as the hype says it was; touching, humorous, and critical of consumptionary lifestyles.
Wikipedia’s summary is excellent, so I’ll just reproduce it here:
Around the year 2118, the company Buy ‘n Large supplied almost every service on Earth, from food to banking to transportation. The company has such a monopoly on every service that it simply becomes the world government, with a “World CEO” in charge of all humanity. Overrun by consumerism, humanity abandoned the planet aboard luxury spaceliners such as the Axiom. Thousands of WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) units were left behind to convert the garbage into a disposable form. The recovery plan failed, however, and 700 years later in the year 2815, Earth is completely devoid of life and still covered with trash, with only one WALL-E (the protagonist, voiced by Ben Burtt) still operational.
Go see the movie. Tell your friends to see it. And check out the Apple page for trailers, clips, and more. $62,500,000 the first weekend isn’t enough, Wall-E deserves more!
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