...or how Pixar once again hit the right balance between cuddly and funny for the kids, and satirically pointed for the grown-ups.The titular hero is a waste disposal robot alone on an abandoned future Earth of garbage-mound skyscrapers, plodding away compacting trash and anthropomorphically picking out sentimental curios until the arrival of EVE, a sleek probe robot sent to find signs of regrowth. So, what ensues is a love story in which the puppyish main protagonist follows EVE to where the departed humans have vacationed for the last 700 years, growing so bloated that they're unable to walk any more. Here's the magic formula: waddling blobs are laughs for the kids, whereas their parents will basically see all of civilisation turned into Americans on sunbeds, drip-fed milkshakes.
It goes without saying that the animation is hugely impressive, and that the appropriate references are made to various stock sci-fi sources. What does come as a surprise, though, is that the lead robots, with their two-word vocabularies and pared-down faces, have somehow been infused with more personality than most of the actual human personae in Hollywood.
7/10
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