Okay Sari, you got your wish, I'm finally going to write an official review of Wall-E for you, only because there's a site having a contest for it right now. Anyone else who is interested or just likes to laugh at the dumb things I say, check it out.

Well, Wall-E is one of those movies where it's almost a waste of a time to write a review because you know it's AWESOME. It's Pixar, after all. And Pixar rules all. Before I go on with what I'm about to say here, let's get one thing straight: I loved the HELL out of Wall-E. It was a fantastic journey into a genre I otherwise wouldn't be interested in and it was memorable and more real than most live-action movies today.

That being said, the first word that pops into my head when I think of this movie is "creepy".

Pixar has single-handedly taken one of the greatest musicals of all time, and gave their songs a haunting tone simply by putting them in Wall-E. In the opening sequence of the movie, you can faintly hear "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" tuning in and out as Wall-E drives on- and off-screen. If you come in to the movie knowing the basic plot, that all humans have left the now uninhabitable earth, you're going to be creeped out by this. The score as the camera rolls back and shows you all the damage that's been done, it's ridiculous. You might be even more creeped out as the movie progresses and you discover the kind of life humans are leading 700 years into the future. Where walking, talking, and playing are things of the past and humans hardly resemble humans anymore, emotionally, not just physically.

The part that creeps me out the most is how well they put you in Wall-E's place. Wall-E continues doing what he's made for, cleaning up and well aware he's the last "living" thing on the planet. (Or, more appropriately, the last thing to posses a soul.) Wall-E clings to the only link to the past he has: a videotape of the famous musical "Hello Dolly", and when he sits in his trailer and watches the people on the screen dance, you sort of get the chills, now realizing that Pixar isn't messing around: in this world, humans will never inhabit earth like this again.

That also being said, it's the creepiness that makes it work. Despite the lack of dialogue, the scary concept of the plot is what keeps you paying attention. The idea of humans no longer living, but simply surviving, is enough to throw dialogue out the window and still hold your attention.

On top of it all, this movie beats out Happy Feet any day, because the plot is focused, it stays in one place, and it doesn't jam the message down your throat. Quite the contrary, the romantic subplot downplays the hardcore message quite a bit; saving the world becomes secondary to the power of holding hands.

Wall-E is a character that is more real than most live-action, human characters who actually posses a mouth. It's something difficult to describe, you'd simply have to see the movie to understand what I mean by that. Even beforehand, however, it's not hard to find something to love in Wall-E. (Come on, a sweet lovable robot who happens to love Hello Dolly? It's the greatest concept since Sailor Stars' Mia's obsession with Johnny Cash.)

Can't say much more without giving it away, but take it at this: Wall-E is a masterpiece, no matter what age. See it, and understand why some things can't be explained in a movie review.

-Chi <3