5 star rating June 30, 2008 Adam W.
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Pixar scores again - this time the environment benefits

This is one of the best movies I have seen in recent memory for a whole host of reasons. From a film perspective, I think Pixar is one of the only major studios still making consistently interesting, original movies. From the point of view of SustainLane however, this is an entire movie lambasting our consumer culture and environmental policy, but managing to do it in a way that is not preachy or offensive, and is incredibly entertaining!

A brief synopsis of the plot us as follows:

In some bygone time, a conglomerate called “Buy N Large” filled the earth with megastores. As the world became too filled with garbage from all of it's products, the corporation loaded its valued customers onto a space station where they have evolved into fat, lazy leisure addicts serviced by a new generation of specialized machines. They left behind Wall-E (an acronym for Waste Allocation Load Lifter- Earth Class) to clean up all the garbage, and to notify them when the earth becomes inhabitable once again.

This seems like some really heavy stuff for a kids film, but as usual, Pixar handles it in a way that no one else really can. As we follow the main plot, which is a love story between Wall-E and a sleek, research probe named Eve-A, we are constantly treated to small, sustainable life lessons. This is technically a kids movie, but like so much of Pixar's other work it truly trancends age, understood at one level by children and another by us. Hopefully, no matter who watches it, we will all be inspired to live a slightly more fulfilling, less consumption oriented life!

Adam's keywords: disney, walle, wall e, WALL-E, robot, movies

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