If you are one of the people who rated Wall-E as a 1-out-of-5-stars movie, then you are one sad and pathetic soul. I had the chance to watch Wall-E today, and at the same time tried out a first impression in watching at Platinum XXI. Not bad, by the way. In terms of graphic quality, Wall-E is exactly what you can expect from a world-class animation studio that has never seized to amaze me with their creations. Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., Cars, Ratatouille, they are all superb animated movies in both story and craftsmanship.

As for Wall-E, it is much more special than that. Not only that it is a very enjoyable movie, it performs as a good educative movie as well, both for children, and adults, even though as I read somewhere, the producers didn’t actually intend to make this movie other than a love story. From what I’ve seen today, Wall-E gave us at least several moral lessons for us to think about.

• At least 700 years in the future, as Pixar predicted, Earth is totally covered with trash and junk. Even the orbit is covered with space trash. And we humans are definitely the ones to blame. And we Indonesians definitely fail on this one.
• In that future, people have become dependent to technology that they don’t even bother to move their ass around on their own. Every single human being in the Axiom is obese.
• When EVE and Wall-E aided the Axiom’s captain to turn against Auto’s mutiny, this shows that even robots have soul and to aid humans and to stick to their good directives.
• Wall-E and EVE showed us what it is like to have a life full of compassion and loyalty with each other. I don’t see if that’s something in common now.

Pixar has managed to develop robot characters that can only communicate verbally at a certain limit, but have deep character and emotion on screen. Who can resist the sweet and innocent Wall-E? He’s gone great lengths to stand on what he believes in. Even his pet cockroach didn’t move waiting for Wall-E’s return to Earth. Bottom line, I give this movie 11 out of 10 stars. It is outstandingly superb.

By the way, for you art history geeks, stay put for the ending credits. It’s a summary of art movements since cave wall paintings in an implicit animation. Very good stuff.

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