Only this time he finds something new. Perhaps the last little robot left - one that someone forgot to turn off - he is entranced in aspects of rather ordinary human life and, together with a durable pet cockroach, he fills his Igloo lunch box will a
ll kinds of fascinating finds.
Through the skyscraper-sized piles of trash left over from the products of the polluting and corrupt multi-national corporation Buy n Large, WALL-E collects a Rubik's Cube, an iPod, the box that contained a diamond ring, a plant, twinkling fairy lights.
His home - a giant storage container within a large decommissioned Army-tank-like robot - is organised into spaces in which he houses his collection and before shutting down for the night he reminisces about a past life he never had, singing along to show tunes found on an old video tape. But WALL-E's world is about to change - along comes a high-tech, sleek, dangerous EVE who is on a reconnaissance mission.
WALL-E has now become one of a pair of robots on the Earth and his delightful, skittish attempts to talk with EVE are just the start of a relationship that will take him on a trip into space that he will never forget.
On a space cruise ship that contains, feeds, and constantly entertains the lazy, overweight offspring of the humans that were rescued from the earth 700 years prior, it will be WALL-E and EVE's chance to change the history of human life on earth forever.
A haunting and memorable film, WALL-E catches for a moment the life that we all live now - TVs, credit cards, microwave meals, online chatting, instant gratification and expands it into something scarily foreseeable.
Unlike other spacey/robot films like ET and Short Circuit WALL-E is already set within the rather depressing aftermath of human greed and product waste. It means something to me as I take out the rubbish (and hope that the lid closes properly).
Verdict: *****The full article contains 411 words and appears in n/a newspaper.
