WALL-E

I'm not sure if this is a children's movie, and I'm not sure if watching it with children would change the experience. So I should point out that I watched it as an adult film, with adults. It's easy to be cynical, but WALL-E is undoubtedly adorable. He's like a young boy, or puppy, who falls in love, which is the point. He's a human, really, with a few robot characteristics, rather than the other way around. You can be incredulous that robots would not act the way he does, but then you'd be what is called a 'killjoy'. This film doesn't submit to that sort of scrutiny, because it's not meant to. You have to admire the brave choice to have two main characters who speaks little more than two or three words between them. Aside from a few sentences now and then, this film really has no dialogue. Good writing doesn't mean lots of dialogue, and the writers of WALL-E prove that here, even though some of a action sequences are a bit routine, there's still a freshness to just about everything. The 'female' character EVE is a bit annoying, as is the cockroach, a character we definitely could've done without. The opening music was too cute for me, and I found the ecological message a bit irritating (we don't go to the cinema to be preached at). The crudity of the way the film manipulates the audience can be sickening, but isn't that the point of art: to produce emotions in the viewer? (You might argue good art doesn't aim at base emotions, and you might be right.) If you come to this film with an open mind, you're bound to enjoy it immensely.