{"id":1912,"date":"2008-07-01T20:03:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T19:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2008-07-01T20:15:18","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T19:15:18","slug":"wall-e-is-another-landmark-film-for-pixar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/07\/01\/wall-e-is-another-landmark-film-for-pixar\/","title":{"rendered":"WALL-E is another landmark film for Pixar"},"content":{"rendered":"

After seeing WALL-E<\/strong><\/a> at the weekend I have to once again salute the geniuses at Pixar<\/a> for creating another extraordinary animated film.<\/p>\n

\"WALL-E<\/a><\/p>\n

Set in a dystopian future circa 2815, it is about a waste disposal robot named WALL-E (W<\/strong>aste A<\/strong>llocation L<\/strong>oad L<\/strong>ifter E<\/strong>arth-Class) who meets another robot named EVE (E<\/strong>xtraterrestrial V<\/strong>egetation E<\/strong>valuator) and gets involved in an unlikely romance, as well as the future of the human race.<\/p>\n

Directed by Andrew Stanton<\/a>, it is probably the most visually impressive work Pixar have yet committed to film (and that is saying a lot) but at the same time it also resonates emotionally as a suprisingly touching love story.<\/p>\n

Robots haven’t been this endearing since Silent Running<\/a> and the two central characters are joy to watch – the boxy old school charm of WALL-E contrasting beautifully with the cool, sleek beauty of EVE.<\/p>\n

Although I would never thought I would ever compare a Pixar movie to There Will Be Blood<\/a> – both have startling opening sequences with little or no dialogue.<\/p>\n

One of the clever aspects of the film is the casting of sound designer Ben Burtt<\/a> as the central character – for those unfamilar with his work he was the pioneering sound editor on the Star Wars<\/a> and Indiana Jones<\/a> films.<\/p>\n

Along with the animators, Burtt has helped create a character who is extremely expressive without using conventional language.<\/p>\n

The same is true for EVE, so it is even more impressive that the filmmakers have managed to craft a compelling relationship between them.<\/p>\n

The visual landcaspes are equally impressive, full of rich detail and nods to other sci-fi films.<\/p>\n

I’ll review it in full in couple of weeks on the podcast<\/a>, but for the time being this is another glorious home run for the Pixar team.<\/p>\n

WALL-E <\/strong>is out now in the US and in the UK on 11th July<\/em><\/p>\n

> Official site for WALL-E<\/a>
\n> Read reviews for WALL-E at Metacritic<\/a> (it is currently at 93 which is a very impressive score for a mainstream film)
\n> Find out more about Pixar at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After seeing WALL-E at the weekend I have to once again salute the geniuses at Pixar for creating another extraordinary animated film. Set in a dystopian future circa 2815, it is about a waste disposal robot named WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) who meets another robot named EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) and gets involved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,8],"tags":[323,322],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}