Disney’s Pixar movie WALL-E Is a haunting disturbing experience. Text from DJCline.com.

The mark of a great film is if you can watch it without sound and still follow the story. Like Pixar’s earlier films it has visual references to pop culture but mixed with a bleak satire on consumerism.Text from DJCline.com.

The first part of the film is classic science fiction. The last surviving trash compacting robot tries to clean up a world turned into a garbage dump unable to support human life. WALL-E is a lonely and pathetic character in the same vein as Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp or Steven Speilberg’s ET. Comic relief is a cockroach sidekick that survives on Twinkies. I have news for you, there will be more than one cockroach left. WALL-E has an obsession with musicals that make his infatuation with visiting robot EVE an unlikely romance. Of course there’s no explaining robots in love.Text from DJCline.com.

The second part is cartoon slapstick with lots of robots chasing each other through a giant space liner. Humans are morbidly obese consumers isolated from nature and each other. There is a reference to HAL from 2001 Space Odyssey but I am more struck by the reference to MYCROFT from The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, where the hero’s very identity is nearly destroyed in an attack.Text from DJCline.com.

The final credits are worth the price of admission. I was reminded of the Moody Blues album cover To Our Children’s Children’s Children.Text from DJCline.com.

I walked out of the picture determined to exercise more and spend less time buying stuff and more time interacting with people in person. I’m curious if Pixar wants us to be consistent with the picture’s message and not buy copies of the film or merchandise related to it. After all, WALL-E will just have to clean up after us.Text from DJCline.com.

Highly recommended.

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