WALL-E

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Animation

Plot:
In the early 29th century, the Earth is deserted and covered in trash. Seven hundred years earlier, the world was governed by the Buy n Large ("BnL") corporation, who relocated the Earth's population to fully automated luxury starliners for five years while garbage- compacting WALL-E robots cleaned up the planet. Rising toxicity levels caused the evacuation to be extended indefinitely, and all of the WALL-E units broke down except for one, who survived by salvaging parts off other defunct units. He eventually developed sentience and became curious about love after watching a video of the film Hello, Dolly!. One day, a spaceship lands and deploys an advanced, feminine probe robot named EVE, with whom WALL-E falls in love at first sight. During a dust storm he brings her to his truck, showing her his collection of abandoned items. When WALL-E shows her a seedling plant he found earlier, EVE stores the plant inside herself and goes into standby. WALL-E protects her motionless body, even taking her out on dates, hoping that she will reboot, but to no avail.

They Say:
WALL-E received universal acclaim from film critics. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 96% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based upon a sample of 200 reviews, with an average rating of 8.6/10. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average score of 93, based on 39 reviews. indieWire named WALL-E the 3rd best film of the year, based on their annual survey of 100 film critics, while Movie City News shows that WALL-E appeared in 162 different top ten lists, out of 286 different critics lists surveyed, the most mentions on a top ten list of any film released in 2008.

Richard Corliss of Time named WALL-E as his favorite film of 2008, noting the film succeeded in "connect[ing] with a huge audience" despite the main characters' lack of speech and "emotional signifiers like a mouth, eyebrows, shoulders [and] elbows". It "evoke[d] the splendor of the movie past" and he also compared WALL-E and EVE's relationship to the chemistry of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Other critics who named WALL-E as their favorite film of 2008 included Tom Charity of CNN; Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly; A. O. Scott of The New York Times; Christopher Orr of The New Republic; Ty Burr and Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe; Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal; and Anthony Lane of The New Yorker.

I Say:
First of all, I would like to say that this movie deserves more than 5 stars. The movie, and all of its components, is great! The chemistry of the pair is cute. The story's awesome. It's somehow bothering to think that our planet (and all of us) may reach that point. So the movie is... educational.

My "review" isn't enough to describe it. I know some of you have already watched this but those who still haven't, this is definitely a must-watch.