WALL-E

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Drawing on science fiction epics like "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Star Wars" "Wall-E" may be the first truly dystopian animated movie for kids.

The movie starts out with a stunning 16 minutes of dialogue-free set up that establishes solar-powered robot trash compactor Wall-E and his cockroach pal as inheritors of a post-apocalyptic earth covered in garbage.

700 years after humans have abandoned the planet, happy-go-lucky Wall-E goes about his daily chores of collecting, compacting, and stacking trash into enormous but neat towers.

Every night the good-natured little bot returns to his industrial abode where he mimes along with a video copy of Hello Dolly.

Wall-E’s lonely existence takes a romantic turn when a super-modern robot named EVE is dispatched to the planet to retrieve a piece of vegetation to take back to her mother ship.

The smitten Wall-E follows EVE onto the intergalactic craft which houses a colony of grotesquely obese humans who serve as mindless consumer masses to the dubious "B&L" corporation that controls their every waking hour of inaction.

A powerful musical score from Thomas Newman embellishes this surprisingly downbeat computer-animated comedy.

 Rated PG. 97 mins.