Caring for an ol' Bucket of Bolts
In 2005, Fox's over-the-top Robots drove the nail in the coffin of our hope for a fun robot movie from Hollywood. It was
too much of everything to be any fun at all, unless a big headache is something cool. Nope, but fast forward just
a few years to 2008. Leave it to the Pixar gang to take an obedient rusty little trash compactor and turn it
into a masterpiece of entertainment. For hundreds of desolate years (humans abandoned Earth as it had become an un-be-liveable heap of
trash), Wall-E sorted the junk day in and day out. Happening upon a Betamax copy of Hello, Dolly!, our little bot discovers
true love. Soon after spotting his Dolly in a gorgeous she-bot named Eve, Wall-E knows what needs to be done. The chase is on...
and a great animated films takes hold. The Pixar team gives us quality over quantity, and in a surprising move
that goes against the grain of its own wildly successful "talkies" like Cars, Wall-E has very little dialog. As
fans of movie music, we can't help but love the prospect such a formula may promise. To the few tablespoons of Pixar, add a pinch
of director Andy Stanton and a pound of composer Thomas Newman and we have the Wall-E soundtrack
CD (Disney). Delivering on the promise, Newman's music takes center stage throughout the visually rich film, adding
great depth and detail where words have none. Disney music has appropriately produced the CD in digipak form made of 100%
recycled materials; as we sift through the score album, all bets are off... this music is the furthest from "recycled."
The occasional other-wordly Herrmannesque sound may be hinted at, as is an expected 2001 anthem, but that's it. Wait...
we're wasting valuable resources, you and I, by writing and reading what's already known: you've probably seen the film and
know how great the movie's music is. Out!
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