Knock your head on the Wall.e

Spoilers ahead.

You will probably find my take on the film which I just watched. I am trying to remain as neutral as I can. And so, whether you have watched or not, intend to or not, please do not take what I say to heart. I am known to be extremely bias in certain cases, so do not take my word for it.

Firstly, I am not an avid fan of cookie cutter standard animated films which have small deviation in standard cookie cutter plots. Every standard story (usually) has usually it's introduction, crisis and then resolution of that problem. Cliche, cliche and terribly cliche. The worst kind of plots are those with the save-the-world heroic one man/one team show, and then a happy ending. Not only cliche, but terribly unappetizing.

I guess this Wall.E thing is marketed towards little kids. Probably adults with the minds of little kids will be entertained by little Wall.E ridiculing himself, or perhaps people who think they're one notch higher in the 'philosophical hierarchy" would like to psycho themselves into believing that there's more to simple Wall.E saving Planet Earth.

Yes, love. Romance. True enough, without it, Wall.E would be basically nothing but a plain canvas sheet. Add romance and you add a canvas colour, say pink, or any bright colour. But ultimately, the show finishes off where it starts off with a emotional displacement of zero. I know this is going to sound cheesy, but a good film makes you think. Wall.E makes you sigh in despair because it gets too boring after the second half. Robotic ridicule is a good attraction point but in surfeit it spells disaster. This soporific effect was probably enhanced by robotic love being predictable to the extent that it grew horribly boring. . Granted, in a kids show, there is no room for complex characters, personalities or whatsoever. After all, a kid's show it is and a kid's show it will be.

It was safe to say, that 99% of the robots in the show had exactly the same personalities. Some with slightly varied ones (like the stupid cleaner bot), Eve and Wall.E had probably identical personalities.

(and do I sense some inference by using the name Eve, and Wall.E actually calls her evil by the way he pronounces it. Intentional or not, I'll give it the benefit of the doubt).

Does this film hint the inevitable nature of love. Wall.E is just another robot. And humans are to a certain extent, manipulated by how we think and how we think, process thoughts could be also robotesque. When we're lonely, we fall in love, no matter who (even if he or she is wielding a gun which could potentially kill), and when our loved ones get seized by circumstances we bravely fight back and risk everything. Wall.E didn't have a choice. Being a robot, the CPU in him made him do it. Are we just as trapped in such a fate as little Wall.E? I'd like to believe not.

The line between robot and human have been blurred in this film. In an attempt to portray robots with human behavior, they have caused human and robot to act and behave on the same level, the same plane, and the same intelligence and will. It is such an irony that man behaves like robots and robots like man, in this film alone. We can see the identity exchange.

I don't know how to be amused by a film with almost no words. Art, in most forms, come without words. But I believe a film without words is like a book without characters. It's like watching sign language film, everything is a mime. Words are powerful, in fact they are vital. But in such a film, the lack of words, and the fact that all communication is visual makes it dull. Some may find it appealing. If you feel that tickle whenever that so called robotic humor happens,( i e. the fake robotic imitation of love which is supposed to be funny ), I might suppose this show is just perfect for you.

As for me, I sunk deeper into my seat as time drags on. I was somewhat waiting for the show to end. The progression of the plot was not only haphazard but void of direction. It was a wandering sensation without the thrill, which just felt like eating plain porridge with fish bones for lunch. The comedy suffered various flaws. Firstly, the repetitive nature of it. Seeing Wall.E bump into something or getting banged by trolleys is one amusing thing to see, but seeing variations of that happening ten thousand times is numbs it by a power of 2 each time it happens.

I tried my best to be lenient. But the best part of the movie was the trailers before the show started. Wall.E was cute, at it's best. Eve was minatory. And their love was well, cliche. Towards the end, they had Wall.E ALMOST die (though he should have been dead long ago. he seems to have punched in a certain infinite health code in his trusty little mini computer). Eve reformats him, and saves him. But Wall.E loses his memory.

And they COULD HAVE ENDED JUST THERE.

But I think I should bang my head on the Wall.E because this is a kid's film. Kids don't like going home thinking too much and for that reason they are kids. Grown ups with identical mindsets should be shot or brought back to kindergarten or both. Either way, the film had too happy of an ending. If they couldn't make it abstract, make it sad. I guess that was what could have saved the entire plot. It would be much better if they sticked to the cliche, and then deceive the audience.

Then they would get complains. Kids are not supposed to cry in a film. I can for see that coming up if they sticked to what I prefer. Sadly.