Wall-E is the newest invention from Pixar Animation Studios.  Directed by Andrew Stanton, Wall-e is a film with heart and personality much like the robotic protagonist.

Hundreds of years into the future and earth's inhabitants have destroyed the eco system.  Now, a pile of rubbish – the planet is quickly abandoned and a machine called - Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class (Wall-e) remains to clean up the leftovers.  Years pass and Wall-e develops human like traits.  It is curious, it is friendly, and it requires a companion.  Suddenly another machine called - Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator (Eve) lands on earth.  Wall-e falls in love and takes off on an adventure.

In the movies nothing is farfetched.  A robot can show emotion, intergalactic travel is possible, and the hero is resorted to a mechanical lunchbox.  This Pixar fabrication is nothing like the gay robots in star wars or an out of this world transforming Chevrolet Camaro.  But, this small and lovable character is a rip off of the 80's robot – Number Five.  Yes, they may be distant cousins, but Pixar has put together a robot with a heart of gold and a knack for removing any stain from any carpet.  How many human beings can say they have those two qualities?

Pixar and Disney seem to make a great team.  Together they can't go wrong.  Yet, while the films get better and more interesting something is lost – the dialogue.  There isn't much of it - if only the High School Musical franchise can learn something from this new film and go silent.  It would be the new craze – a bunch of over aged people pretending to be teenagers moving their hips and lips to a bad song.  Hmmm... It is not a big dealÉrobots shouldn't talk anyway – it would be far more creepy and less entertaining if Wall-e regurgitated Shakespeare rather than showing how he felt.  Just think of Wall-e as the new Charlie Chaplin with a hint of James Dean.  It is a must see and a no hear.

Rick Villalobos is a freelance writer and film critic in Chicago.