Another Teen Critic falls for WALL-E (Pixar/Disney)
By Candace Kavanagh
For the past month I along with others have used the trailer of WALL-E to cheer us up. With his cute robot eyes and his cute incoherent voice he has cheered us up and made us feel a certain anticipation for the day the film would come out. I know I've been waiting to see WALL-E for a while and that feeling strengthened when I knew this movie was going to be tale of romance. But I didn't know what was going to happen in between. So I was mildly surprised when this movie offered a comment on our society.
Yes as WALL-E begins his journey to see the rest of the human race (that has escaped earth and it's toxic, unlivable environment), he notices that people have lost interest in anything that is not two inches in front of their faces. This results from their whole lives being controlled by computers. Every time someone needs to send a text or someone needs to play their video game, instead of being with an actual person and using their own hands, a computer does all teh work for them. It seems that we get closer to this reality all the time. When I got back home from watching the film I saw almost my whole family practicing this lifestyle right now. Now this theme may be slightly adult for a movie that was advertised as a robotic and romantic version of E.T ., a movie that had no real social content.
But fortunately for all of us WALL-E lovers the cuteness of this movie is not smothered by its social satire. Instead WALL-E 's ultra cute stunts, and the beautiful animation used during the film give the children in the audience something to drool over as adults begin to swallow the more serious comments on our society -- or just ignore them. Of course I spent my time enjoying WALL-E 's sweetness and sincerity as he simply wishes to hold the girl robot and share with her something he hasn't been able to share with anyone before -- his favorite song in Hello Dolly .
So WALL-E (rated G for all audiences) is a great movie to watch with your kids or your friends. I might even call it a date movie. Just as long you don't mind watching a movie where you can't understand what most of the characters in the movie are saying. Kind of like watching an episode of Pokemon .
-- Candace Kavanagh just graduated from Mount Miguel High School. She spends her life absorbing celluloid images. She loves every type of film from so-called "chick flicks" such as My Fair Lady and Legally Blonde, to mind bending thrillers like Mulholland Drive and Hard Candy -- with every zombie movie, action flick, musical, and comedy in between.
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