Wall*E
HEADLINE: ** Great Love Conquers Time and Space **
Title: WALL*E
Quality: * * * * Acceptability: +4
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: None
Violence: V
Sex: None
Nudity: None
RATING: G
RELEASE: June 27, 2008
TIME: 97 minutes
STARRING: Fred Willard; and, the voices of Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Macintalk, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, and Sigourney Weaver
DIRECTOR: Andrew Stanton
PRODUCER: Jim Morris
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: John Lasseter
WRITERS: Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: Pixar/Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Company
CONTENT: (CC, BBB, E, V) Strong Christian worldview without mentioning Jesus that tells a story about no greater love has any person than to give up his or her life for his or her neighbor, with very strong moral elements such as kindness, courtesy, compassion and all the other cardinal virtues extolled, slightly environmentalist elements and slightly anti-consumer, but on the whole very balanced, emphasizing virtues that Christians and most conservatives would commend; absolutely no foul language; action cartoon violence with robots and cartoon people, but nothing scary, though there is danger and jeopardy, plus human cartoon character captain fights with auto-pilot trying to take over ship; no sex but robots hold hands; no nudity; no alcohol; no smoking or drugs; and, nothing objectionable or offensive.
GENRE: Animated Science Fiction
INTENDED AUDIENCE: All ages
REVIEWER: Dr. Ted Baehr
Please address your comments to:
Robert Iger, President/CEO
The Walt Disney Company (Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax Films, and Buena Vista Distribution)
Dick Cook, Chairman
The Walt Disney Studios
500 South Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521
Phone: (818) 560-1000
Website: www.disney.com
SUMMARY: WALL*E, the latest animated feature from Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures, is about a lonely, lovelorn robot who has the key to the future of the human race and earth. If you've been waiting for entertainment that would lift you up, carry you to the outer reaches of imagination, inspire you, fill you with love, joy and happiness, and leave you with a great fantastic crescendo, you might want to see WALL*E.
IN BRIEF:
WALL*E is the latest animated feature from Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures. In the future, human beings left earth because there was too much trash. In their haste, they forgot to turn off WALL*E, Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class. So, for 700 years, he's been trying to clean up the planet. In the process, he's developed a terrific personality. A gigantic rocket lands, dropping off an Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluation robot, or EVE. WALL*E is immediately smitten. He hands her a plant, and EVE races back to report her findings to the waiting humans. WALL*E chases her across the galaxy, setting into motion an incredible, comic adventure.
If you've been waiting for entertainment that would lift you up, carry you to the outer reaches of imagination, inspire you, fill you with love, joy and happiness, and leave you with a great resolution, you might want to see WALL*E. Andrew Stanton, who wrote and directed WALL*E, created one of the great movies of all time with FINDING NEMO. He has done it again. It's hard to imagine a spiritually and morally uplifting movie experience that gets any better than Pixar's latest animated masterpiece.
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