Sunday, June 29, 2008

Wall-E and Get Smart

Two movie reviews today.

Get Smart: Irrelevant, mildly amusing.

Wall-E: Fantastic film. Beautiful animation, great sound effects that make robots more human than most human actors manage. Story and pacing are just about right. Wall-E focuses on some of the most important aspects of human nature, of the difficulty of coping with this world we're all thrown in together. Then it provides a critique of (at least on aspect of) modern society's way of handling this problem...without being preachy. Quite an achievement - a movie to take to heart for adults - and the for the children. 19/20.

1 comment:

j-ryde said...

One might also note the important difference in detail between scenes on earth and scenes on the Axiom...the robots are more real and the humans are more cartoon-y, but you've in not so many words referenced this. also there is an important thing to note with the love story between Wall-E and Eve. One might argue that the love story is more pure because there are not complications or malignant emotions resulting from sexuality. and for part of the time Wall-E seemed like a frantic expectant father when Eve had the plant. it was cute.

Get Smart...had one funny line.