WALL*E

Over the past week I hit the movie watching mother-load. Allison and I went to see "Harry Potter" then I took the youth group to see "Transformers." On Friday Levi and I went to see "Ratatouille." Finally on Friday night Brandon and I went saw "Rescue Dawn".

I thoroughly enjoyed all these movies each for a different reason. From this movie fest, the thing that has stayed with me was this preview that I saw prior to the showing of "Ratatouille" about a movie called "WALL*E". It should be noted that I am a movie trailer junky...I can't get enough of them.

This feature from Pixar is rumored to break the previous Pixar molds in both style and story. It's directed by Andrew Stanton who was the director for "Finding Nemo" and has a well deserved reputation for pushing the artistic boundaries of animation. You can see from the brief glimpse in the trailer that "WALL*E" is animated using a sort of 3-D animation technique that appears even more life like than previous Pixar efforts. But more than the technical aspect, the story line of "WALL*E" is said to be a real departure for Pixar and mass marketed animation movies for that matter. Not much is given away in the trailer but I found this full plot description on-line that has me even more intrigued. If it lives up to even half of what I read then this will be a movie well worth waiting a year to see, and could represent a fundamental shift in what we expect from animated movies. It's really exciting.