Kibo …

This movie has had rave reviews all over the place, but the one thing all those reviews fail to mention is that the film is bloody awful. It’s a disappointing triumph of style over substance. The visuals are nothing short of stunning - almost real in their detail - but the plot is weak and boring. The humour, however, is almost entirely lacking.

When I saw it there were people laughing, quite hysterically in some cases, and the slightest cliched joke. It’s nowhere near as funny as Toy Story or Shrek, not even as funny as Shrek 3. Wall-E make no attempt to hide the political, environmental and health messages it’s carrying, but so much has gone in to stuffing these in to the film that it looks like the writers forgot to make the film entertaining. There’s no tension in the movie - you don’t have to root the Wall-E and Eve to save the day because there’s no day to save. Toy Story gave you Woody’s quest to rescue Buzz and win back his friends; Shrek gave you “will they/won’t they fall in love”; Wall-E has nothing. If you’ve seen the trailers you’ve seen the best bits of the entire film. Save your money for Dark Knight instead. At least then you can avoid sitting next to a couple of chavs, wearing their best tracksuits, chatting and chomping their way through the entire film.