Scientists and our government are promoting all sorts of ideas about how the world will come to an end. Global warming, meteorites, burning up because of the sun, or being covered in garbage. Disney/Pixar's film Wall-E presents one of those events as actually occurring. In the year 2105, earth is evacuated into space by a company called BnL (Buy 'n' Large). Robots called "Wall-E"s are left to clean up the garbage in hopes of making earth a better place for returning humans.
I have read that the director of Wall-E was a Christian, and there are elements of this film that may confirm that. Wall-E won the Global Award and Academy Award for Best Animated Picture. The movie starred the voices of Ben Burtt as Wall-E, Elissa Knight as EVE (the female robot whose duty is to find life on earth), and Jeff Garlin as B. McCrea, Captain of the Axiom spaceship.
SUMMARY
Humans have evacuated earth, at least for a time, due to increasing garbage. The company BnL has built Wall-E robots to clean up the garbage. But when the film starts, the year is 2805 and there is only one Wall-E robot left living. He has been doing his garbage clean-up job for 700 years!
One day, though, a sleek, white spaceship appears quite dramatically. A high-tech robot named EVE exits the ship and begins scanning everything around. Wall-E quickly discovers first-hand that she is armed with a dangerous gun, but he continues to try to make contact.
He eventually befriends EVE and takes her back to his small home and shows her his favorite "treasures" that he has collected over the years. Then he shows her his latest find: a plant in a boot. EVE scans the object, hides it inside her metal body, and then shuts down. Wall-E watches over her until one day when a spaceship comes and picks her up...but he stows away.
After travelling through space, Wall-E and EVE arrive at the giant ship called the Axiom. He soon finds out that the humans have their every need cared for by robots, computers, and machines. Plus, since they have been in space for their entire lives, they are all very overweight.
The movie continues with Wall-E and EVE trying to get the plant to the Captain, working against evil and controlling robots in the meantime.
CONTENT
There is some violence throughout the movie, but this is a Disney film and it is made for families. EVE fires her gun a few times, but no one is harmed. Also, the Auto-Pilot robot uses his electric needle to fry a robot. Humans are never really injured throughout the film, but robots definitely are.
The movie is not inappropriate. Wall-E has a kind of romantic relationship with the female robot EVE (this is kind of strange, but that wears off by the end of the film). Also, two of the human passengers (John and Mary) seem to have a romantic relationship, but there is not really much that comes from this. One other thing, at the beginning of the movie, is when Wall-E is searching through garbage and finds underwear and covers his eyes with it.
There is, thankfully, not any foul language in this film.
Wall-E presents somewhat apocalyptic events which may possibly offend some parents. With the government pushing so many apocalyptic views of the future, Christians can toss off conservation as unimportant. It is very important, though not for the reason the government and scientists say; Christians are called by God to care for the earth as our home.
As stated earlier, I have read that the director of Wall-E was a Christian. While there are Christian themes that come up in the film, there is no mention of God at all. So this is a good movie, but don't expect to get a great spiritual message.
In conclusion, Wall-E has an extremely slow beginning. In the first fifteen, twenty minutes, there are few spoken words (and those come only from Wall-E and EVE). Once the two robots reach the Axiom, things start to move at a fast pace, and that is when the main comedy starts.
I think this is a good family movie and will entertain everybody (though parents might enjoy the first little while more than the kids). It is a fun, rather light-hearted adventure!
GENERAL INFORMATION
Length: 98 minutes
Rating: G
Director: Andrew Stanton
Producer: Jim Morris
Music: Thomas Newman
Year of release: 2008
Primary audience: Kids, family
(For more on the Christian themes in Wall-E, here is an article from Christianity Today, which can be found at the following link: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/juneweb-only/andrewstanton.html)
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