The eponymous star of Pixar’s new film looks like a supercute amalgam of E.T. and R2D2.
I’ve got a soft spot for sci-fi and dystopian narratives in particular, plus an enduring fascination with robots (which I blame on Isaac Asimov’s series of amazing short stories, I Robot). Thus the romantic misadventures of a little machine whose job it is to clean up the world once we’ve all left sounds like lots of fun.
Apparently the first 45 minutes of the movie have virtually no dialogue, but the quality of Pixar’s animation and the lovable, detailed characterisation of WALL-E is so exceptional as to make the silence utterly compelling.
I like the film’s tag-lines too: “From the humans that brought you Finding Nemo” and “In space no-one can hear you clean”.
Wall-E is released in the UK on Friday 18th July.
