Hollywood Movies - WALL E Movie Review

I watched the Animation movie WALL E yesterday. A beautiful, funny and a hearty Sci Fi film.

How Disney manages to come up again and again with beautiful movies is some thing that eludes me. WALL E is an animation movie created by PIXAR, now acquired by Disney but nevertheless remains a distinct entity not part of the Disney Animation Studios. PIXAR has some of the best animation movies produced to its credit including Toy Story I & II, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Cars and the recent Academy winning film Ratatouille.

I enjoyed watching this movie trememdously. This film seemed to light up and warm my soul, the bare simplicity and beauty of it was awesome and touching. The animation was like that of all Pixar films, ground breaking , innovative and visually striking. I particularly enjoyed the animation during the first 30 minutes of the movie. I was even more impressed by the sound engineering in the film. The sounds that the main characters in the movie made was very very representive of the feelings that were played on the screen. In terms of direction and technical work, this film is excellent.

Now a bit about the movie story itself. Wall E is the adventure love story of an extremely charming and sweet waste disposal robot. The movie begins against a very somber theme. Earth is a barren land, laid to waste by humans who have now left this planet. All that is now left in Earth are cities of waste. No plants, no greenery, no soil only drab dusty junk. Walks in Wall E, who's sole purpose of existance is to clear up this waste. For a robot, Wall E is a soulful creature perceiving and appreciating the value of tiny things like rubik cubes and zippo lighters in a huge pile of junk. His sole friend is a tiny cockroach. The relationship between the robot and the cockroach, although shown fleetingly, is a delight to watch. One day Wall E chances on a small plant, and takes it back to his workshop. Wall E watches Hello Dolly! on an Ipod hooked up to a VCR, facinated by the idea of love that is everlasting. One day, a super capable female robot lands on earth, sent by humans to check for the slightest indication of plant growth. Wall E is besotted with this super powerful female godess who can fly when he can only roll. Wall E courts her, making gifts out of junk and shows off. When he shows her the plant, she deactivates herself and sends a message to humans and a ship arrives to take her away. Wall E is in pain and does everything to get her back to normal. When the ship comes, he clutches to it desperately during takeoff, marking the beginning of an adventure in space.

As far as I am concerned, this may be a good film to watch with a very pissed girlfriend (or girl friends depending on how unlucky you are :-) ). It is romantic, funny and clean entertainment.

WALL E may very well become the most loved robot in cinema.

Rating -

Overall: 9/10 , Story: 8/10, Screen Play: 9, Technical Excellence:9/10, Watchability: 10/10

Hollywood Movies - Hancock Movie Review

I watched the movie HANCOCK yesterday at Macau Tower.

Macau Tower is the worlds highest bungee jumping site in the world and I jumped off it a couple of months ago (check out my video in the Pick'n'Play section, more on the jump experience later). They have a pretty decent movie theatre, and the ticket prices are very reasonable compared to India; Only about 40 MOP or 200 Rs.

Anyway, the movie was pretty much OK. I have been a big time fan of Will Smith ever since I watched him in "Independence Day", "I Robot" and "In Pursuit of Happiness". However, this movie is not as good as his previous blockbusters. I would rate it the same as "I am a Legend".

I have a major issue with the story line. The movie started quite well but the story seemed to fizzle after some time, like a shaken bottle of coke, as though the director forgot about the actual story and went into coma. The twists in the story (seemed more like gaping holes to me actually) are also weak and do not, by any stretch of my imagination, make the movie goer stop sleeping and sit up in his / her seat. The action scenes are good but some how are neither visually striking nor lengthy enough to make them memorable. In all, the movie is as much lacking in sugar as is a black coffee drunk by a diabetic and as much lacking in salt as is an ice cream.

On the whole, it is a movie you can watch one time and forget about once you exit the movie hall. Definitely not Will Smith's greatest !!!!

Rating-

Overall: 6/10 , Story: 6/10, Screen Play:6 , Technical Excellence:6/10, Watchability: 6/10

I am eagerly expecting "Mummy - Part 3". I may write a movie review on "Hulk - 2" later.

Catcha all later !!!