Title: Wall-E
Genre:Sci-Fi
Director:Andrew Stanton
Company:Disney Pixar
Wall-E is a Disney Pixar animation that’s set in the distant future where earth is uninhabitable. They really set an atmosphere with their use of music and scenes of desolation throughout the city where Wall-E is. It is rated as general with it made in the United States for english speaking audiences. WIth a running time of 98 minutes, and a $180 million budget it delivers a lot!
The plot, for I explained before is set in the future, about 700+ years; Earth is uninhabitable and before that the global business Buy’n Large creates a space cruise liner ... the Axiom which originally left for a 5 year interstellar cruise. That decides to not come back, so with no humans on the planet they had deployed robots to clean up. As these robots are the Wall-E’s, the Wall-Es’ job is to collect trash, crush it into a cube and then stack it. Now Wall-E (the final working Wall-E) is the protagonist and is continuing his job, so he takes parts from the broken down bots to survive. Unlike the others, Wall-E likes to collect items of all sorts and value, for he has a whole mobile Wall-E station full of items. Until one day a spaceship lands nearby where Wall-E is ,intrigued he finds a robot called Eve that is a probe sent out by Buy’n Large that is scanning for life in the desolate earth. Wall-E eventually befriends her and shows her a plant and she takes it and gets ready to be taken to ... the Axiom. Rest of the movie is them getting the plant to the ship's scanner that’ll tell the Axiom to go back to earth!
The movie is done in a 3rd Person Omniscient as at certain parts you can see in the robot's interface, for it shows their view and information scanners occasionally. The conflict in this film is Technology vs Technology as the main character/s is a robot and the antagonist being the rouge auto pilot called Oto that tries to prevent the return to the Axiom. The genre is Sci-Fi Fantasy; with it being a fiction animation that isn’t based on anything. WIth the theme being for freedom and life and death,for the struggles in the film are for freedom to the people on the Axiom. So they can return back to earth with the life and death scenario is that the people on the ship if the plant isn’t put in the scanner the future generations will eventually die of low food supplies or of medical side effects of space! As the main characters are all round with them also being dynamic, for the background characters are slightly dynamic considering it changed everyone's way of life.
The atmosphere is set with the smart angles and views that the animation shows of the barren wasteland on earth. While it does this with the music, with either using older music or dramatic music to illustrate that lack of breakthroughs ,for the main piece in the movie is from the 20th century as the movie is set much further in the future. Also it deliberately shows the old data screens displaying images of the Axiom or nonexistent or broken down places of the city. As on the Axiom they use similar angles and make the place polished, with immaculate backgrounds and also with it practically being the opposite of earth and, with more vibrant music being used in this part.
My view on the film is positive, I enjoy the atmosphere and the angles that it’s viewed from. It has unique characters; each with different personalities and traits. Though the major thing that gives the film atmosphere is the music that’s played, for it uses compliments the background
and theme with it used when it’s needed appropriately. Otherwise the integration of scenes and the family friendly comedy pulls it together to make this movie easy to follow and keeps you watching. As I especially love the small details they put in the scenes, not just the parts that contribute to the movie. Also the small details as in the kindergartan with it displaying and a speaker saying A for Axiom, our home. B for Buy’n Large, your very best friend. Details like that set the scene and give perspective of what has happened to caused this to happen. It’s a well done animation that I highly recommend to all age groups, it possessing good storyline features and strong characters. I rate it 9/10 when considering the age group it’s made for, yet at the same time it is enjoyable for other age groups.
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