My Most Anticipated Film of the Year…

… is not the sequel to Batman Begins or even Star Trek, but rather, this:

Wall-E

It is impossible for me not to smile when I hear him say “Whaaaaaa-haaaal, eeeeeee.”

WALL-E is the story of the last little robot on Earth, whose programming was to help clean up. Through consumerism, rampant, unchecked consumerism, the Earth was covered with trash. And to clean up, everyone had to leave Earth and set in place millions of these little robots that went around to clean up the trash and make Earth habitable again.

Well, the cleanup program failed with the exception of this one little robot and he’s left on Earth doing his duty all alone. But it’s not a story about science fiction. It’s a love story, because, you see, WALL·E falls in love with EVE, a robot from a probe that comes down to check on Earth […]

Sounds good to me!

I love stories about someone finding that their true purpose in life was not, just as they knew all along, something they’ve been doing their whole life. (Add robots to the mix, and I blow one big excited gasket). Like John Locke from Lost, who was a box salesman for the longest time before crash landing and becoming one of the island’s most respected leaders, the tag line for Wall-E is…

It’s okay, little guy… someone’s coming for you.