This is not so much a review of the movie, but rather a personal view after watching it. In my opinion, Wall.E is a love story with a secondary message to environmentalism and healthy living.

First of all, robot Wall.E’s single-mindedness, and selflessness in expressing his love for robot EVE by assisting her in completing her mission – even to the verge of death – is the ultimate expression of love. To love, is highest expression of the meaning of one’s existence. Just how many will give up what they are doing – even their lives and jobs – so the very person they loved can achieve their goals in life today?

It is no wonder some found Wall.E a little lacking in terms of hilarity, because for all intentions and purposes, being funny and hilarious isn’t the main objective or story of Wall.E itself.

Yet beyond the love story that’s going on between EVE and Wall.E, one must ask, are the humans on the spaceliner Axiom truly living? They can barely walk on their own two feet, and hardly interact with one another. This is most aptly displayed by the fact that two of the guys were talking to the holograms even when they are floating beside one another without even knowing it.

They are flooded with so much information, but a lot of important things pass them by without them knowing that it ever existed – e.g. the pool, the running tracks to prevent them from bone loss. They expect to be spoon-fed everything and yet lost the ability to fend for themselves. It is obvious their lives change with whatever the mass media says, and they can’t go on without the aid of robots. Is this not what we have already become mentally these days, just not physically? Just ask yourself this when you see the next person trying to be what their idols have become, the one talking animatedly over his mobile phone but yet oblivious of everyone else around them, the next moron blasting away his walkman phone on the MRT, or your colleague sitting in the next cubicle sending you an email to ask you for something.

Yet in spite of being driven from Earth for the mess they have created to turn our home planet into a toxic wasteland, they do not seem to have understood that for the entire 700 years living on the Axiom. They continue to live a life of consumerism and produced a huge amount of waste. Is this where we are heading? Are we seeding our own doom with our current lifestyle? Or do we heed this hidden message in Wall.E to start looking at how we could change our consumption habits, before it is too late for us to save ourselves, and even our planet?

When one truly understands the message of Wall.E, one should look back and re-evaluate their lives. Have we been truly living our lives? Who, have we loved and what have we done for them today? Kudos to Pixar for bringing to us yet another thought provoking animation and making animation no longer something that is just for kids, but relevant to us adults as well!