April 26th - W is for Wall-e

April 26th - W is for Wall-e

 

First off, if you haven’t seen this movie yet, go get it. Whether you come out liking it or not, this movie is a true example of how much symbolism a kids movie can have. On the surface, this is a heart warming love story, but beneath that this movie also shows how the world can easily turn south when robots do everything. By showing this sort of thing, this movie can be a truly middle ground, and it all depends on how much you want to see all the issues this movie brings up.

Wall-e starts off with more than a half hour without any of the main characters saying more than two or three words. In this time, the story is conveyed through actions and mechanical motions of a clunky little robot from the past (I like to think of him as a model-T) and a sleek robot off of a spaceship (she’s more like a Tesla). Through these two characters we see the typical children’s love story until the underlying plot kicks in and, like in any other story, blows their relationship out of the way so that the rest of the story can move on. After this point, we start to see all of those issues that I mentioned in the first paragraph start to come into play. They’re blatant enough if you’ve been paying attention at all to the world from the last decade or so, but if you aren’t, or your kids aren’t, then it’s probably not going to be too distracting.

SO, I’ve found that it’s really hard to explain what I liked about this movie. I guess it’s one of the ones that can either be a really “feel good” kind of movie, or the sort that makes you want to go out and participate in something outside yourself. It all depends on what you want to get out of it. So, it has really good animations, a childish story that can also be mature if you read into it, and Mo gets points for just being adorable. 4 out of 5.

Wall-e cover from IMDB
Stars off of Google Images