So, if you’re reading this, you probably are aware of Pixar and the WALL-E movie. We were jonesing to go see a movie after running a garage sale all day on Friday and discovered that WALL-E was opening that day (yesterday). We had to talk my 4 year old into it by playing the trailer on my PS3 and convincing him that it wouldn’t be scary.

We ended up going to the 8:15pm show and about 1/2 way through my kid started getting scared. He’s gotten scared in many movies before and I’ve had to leave without seeing the end of many of them (still haven’t seen the ending to Ratitoulli). I managed to keep him on my lap and we saw the end of the movie just fine. My 6 month old slept through the whole thing.

SPOILER ALERT: Anyway, it was a great movie. Standard sci-fi with a few political statements about waste and some pokes at the technology-addicted and overweight people. The plot goes like this. The human race leaves the planet because of the huge garbage problem and leaves in a huge space ship to wait out the clean-up which is done my hundreds of trash-compactor robots (WALL-E model). Every now and then the space ship sends a probe to earth to see if the soil can support life. WALL-E falls in love with the probe robot (EVE) just as she discovers that life has returned to earth. WALL-E follows her back to the space ship and teams up with a bunch of misfit robots to save the space ship and help it return back to earth. The plot is not great, but the animation and special effects are great. There are a few chuckles and some great characters, but kind of a kids movie more than for adults. Obviously made to merchandise well, there are 1000 different robots and I’m sure the shelves will be full with WALL-E toys in just a few weeks.

All-in-all a very good movie and a great experience for the kids and parents.

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