Each time they seem to come up with something different and here Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton daringly presents a story which has virtually no dialogue and none for the first 20 minutes or so.

We are on Planet Earth, contaminated and abandoned by living beings for 700 years. Left behind is one robot, WALL-E, which stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter – Earth class, who continues to go about his business tidying the detritus into skyscraper blocks, with only a surviving cockroach as companion.

He amuses himself by collecting things that take his fancy and watching a video of Hello Dolly! over and over again. Then a sleek female robot arrives and WALL-E is so smitten that when she is whisked back aboard her spaceship our hero hitches a ride and finds himself among the fat humans destined to coast aimlessly around the universe having destroyed their own world.

If the second half of the film is not quite as gripping, the film still adds up to something wonderful. It works as a sci-fi tale, ingenious comedy and romance with a powerful ecological message. Some have said it may be just a bit too clever for its own good when it comes to entertaining the younger kids, but that remains to be seen.

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