After my abortive Brown attempt, I decided it's been a long time since 
I'd been to a London cinema (the last few times I've been to the 
computer fairs, I've been with a friend and have thus had to leave after 
the fairs). Anyway, I went to see WALL-E at the Empire; nice to see 
something on a big screen with a proper sound system.

Anyway: I would say it's a sort of cross between "Short Circuit" (and 2) 
and "an inconvenient truth", though with the message more about rubbish 
creation than global warming, presumably because the Disney corporation 
don't want to offend their audience _too_ much. The message was anything 
but subtle, to the extent that one got a little bored with it at first.

I'd say an excellent film for taking children to, with enough there to 
enjoy for oneself, though not exactly brain-taxing. The titular 
character owes a _great_ deal to Number Five (Johnny Five), and there 
are a few references to other films that are moderately fun - I'm sure 
there are some I didn't spot; there was definitely one to 2001 (to the 
extent that I half-suspect they bought the prop).

An interesting aspect is that there's virtually nothing spoken for some 
way into the film. (No, this won't bore the kiddies - there's plenty to 
occupy the mind.)

All in all, though I'd say not challenging, definitely the quality of 
overall production you'd expect from Disney, with the excellent computer 
graphics - to the extent that you'd not know they _are_ computer 
graphics other than that things couldn't have been done otherwise - 
you'd expect from PIXAR. (One could be mean and say the happy ending 
leaves a lot of loopholes, but hey, this is Disney.)

Oh, what's it about? A little garbage-compacting robot, continuing to go 
about his work, on an abandoned and rusty Earth, happily though a little 
lonely. Other robots, and a large spaceship, including lots of fat 
humans, feature later. It certainly passes the time. (2h 10', though I'm 
not sure if that included the preceding junk.)

Oh (again): there's what's becoming the norm for CGI films these days - 
a conventional (even slightly old-fashioned) cartoon before it, about a 
magician and his rabbit: this is _excellent_.
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL(+++)IS-P--Ch+(p)Ar+T[?]H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a
profound truth may well be another profound truth. -Niels Bohr, physicist
(1885-1962)