Attack of teh kewt

I have seen the face of cuteness, and it's name is WALL-E.

So this weekend I took my wife, Mrs. Overlord to the local megaplex to see Pixar's newest animated feature, WALL-E (Which, for those of you who haven't seen it stands for "Waste Allocated Load Lifter - Earth Class"). I must admit that going into this movie I had the highest of hopes. The preview was one of the funniest I'd seen in a long time, and as anyone who reads the same webcomics as me knows, I'm a big sucker for cute.

Now normally when I go into a movie with great expectations a horrible, horrible thing happens. Somehow, no matter how good they are they end up disappointing me. Only a few movies (most notably this past winter's Cloverfield) have completely lived up to my hopes. And if they don't, I generally end up being overly harsh on the film in retaliation. I'm happy to say that WALL-E not only lived up to my expectations, but even surpassed them.

WALL-E is a comedy about a scatterbrained robot dealing with his loneliness on an Earth long abandoned by humanity. Despite being the only robot still functioning on the planet, he dutifully keeps going with his endless job of cleaning up trash on the polluted planet. Soon, however, his predictable world is disrupted by the arrival of EVA, another robot for whom WALL-E soon falls head over treads. Giving away any more would be doing a disservice to both you and the movie. Suffice to say, the script is tightly written, and hilarious.

This is the kind of comedy that they just don't make anymore. You know, the funny kind. The kind that doesn't involve Ben Stiller or Adam Sandler or toilet jokes. This is the kind of intelligent, thoughtful humor that has long been missing from modern movies. One thing that may turn off some moviegoers is the fact that the first half of the movie is almost completely without dialogue, however in this case, that's a very good thing. The physical comedy alone is well worth seeing, and the fact that Pixar can make a love story come to life using only two words ("Waaaaall-e" "Eeeeeeeeva") is a testament to this film's genius.

One final note: I've heard a few people say that this film is not really a kid's movie. Although there's certainly nothing inappropriate for kids, it's a more thoughtful movie with almost no dialogue that today's jack-ass generation may find hard to sit through without dying of boredom. Well I hate to sound like a cranky old person (Get off my lawn!), but that's exactly the kind of thing kids should be watching. Too many kids movies today are focused on crude, unintelligent humor and mind-melting action with no thought required, which means that the generations after mine are becoming overly-stimulated and unable to appreciate anything with more depth than Deuce Bigalow. With that in mind, this movie is quite a welcome change in direction that parents would do well to take notice of.

My rating: 9.5 out of 10 lashings.