The Case for Pixar

The Earth is presumed dead, attempts to ressurrect her proving insufficient to the task. Humanity has fled. The planet is a barren wasteland. And only Pixar can turn this kind of post-apocalyptic scenario into the backdrop for a cute film filled with Disney values.

Wall-E is the latest film from the hallowed holographic halls of Pixar's digital palace. A lone, eccentric robot roams the littered streets of New York until a visit from a robot representative of far flung humanity comes visiting and breaks this little robot's isolation.

For a film without a huge amount of dialogue, Wall-E still manages to be witty, amusing and decidedly family fun. The lead little robots are cute, but not cloyingly so. Sure, the story is fairly predictable, but then this is a Pixar/Disney film aimed squarely at those people who loved Finding Nemo. And it definitely hits that crowd pleasing mark.

An added bonus for me was a live-action presence, in the form of Fred Willard as the BnL CEO (and planetary president?) who appeared only in commercials and video archives, but whose quirky style added a decidedly non-digital presence to the usual near-flawless Pixar computer generated universe.

Verdict: A huge amount of fun, that shouldn't be faulted for being the predictable film these kind of things eventually nearly always are. 4 Axioms out of 5.