wall E

watching wall-e is like having a long and satisfying drink of chocolate. it is sweet and just a little cloying, but warms you up right to the core :)

for once in a movie, there is childlike innocence in the way romance is developed. wall-e stumbles around clumsily in his open admiration for the sleek Eve, but finally wins her love with his devotion, and the happy couple consumates...by holding metallic hands at last :P

what else is striking? the complete absence of hostility on the space cruise ship, Axiom. after centuries of peaceful existence, the residents of axiom have lost any sense of danger, and react to intruders (Wall-e) with the curiousity of children - intrigued, but never defensive. so wall-e was free to wander around, leaving a trail of toxic stains behind him everywhere he does, and of course, saves the day by sacrificing himself

frankly, if i were the passengers of Axiom, i would just stay right where i am in the cocoon, and not go home to earth, where mountains of rubbish, literally, jostle with skyscrapers. and then there is gravity. someone, please beam me up to Axiom. would be perfectly happy to let the paternalistic auto-pilot run everything while i suckle and sleep my way into obesed oblivion.