Will the chairs work on earth, though?

I was excited to catch WALL.E at the cinema this weekend. We were up in the North East visiting the boy's mum, and I suggested the flick as a fun-for-all evening out.

Good god, it's good. Do go and see if it if you get the chance.

The hype around its release (and all that pesky internet chatter) means that I'm not giving away any plot secrets here - so I'll run you through what to expect. The movie revolves around an adorable (oh yeah, robots can be adorable) garbage compactor robot named WALL-E, who was designed to clean up our discarded and trash-filled planet to ready it for human habitation again. He's the last working robot on earth, the others having conked out years ago. Like 700 years ago.

Meanwhile, the lazy humans are orbiting the earth on a luxury space-liner - their mission to make earth habitable now almost completely fogotten.

By his own design, though, WALL-E has become, over time, an endlessly curious creature who collects all of the objects that strike his fancy. And there's been plenty of time for his curiosity to evolve. WALL-E has been alone on Earth for seven centuries, and his loneliness is clear.

The first half of the film, which sees WALL-E meet, and fall for, a visiting robot(EVE) is played out almost without dialogue. It's impressive that without speech, WALLE's emotions and his growing love is poignant. And he's a bloody ROBOT remember, which makes Pixar's ability to stir up emotion even more impressive.

The film's second half - which takes place aboard the space ship - is a serious social commentary on the devolution of human race - and which plays homage to Mike Judge's Idiocracy. Pixar shows us clearly that in our fat, fast-food gorging, Internet loving and socially inept future we won't even need to chew for ourselves, thanks to all meals being liquidised and provided in cups. Perhaps this is the future which Sally, the journalist I referenced in my last post, was wary of. Needless to say, I saw the plus side of a reclining internet chair and on-tap foodstuffs. But I think that might just have been me.

The film is fast-paced fun - but with bags of emotion and a serious environmental message. I think Pixar has proved itself once again. Check it out and see if I'm right.