WALL•E

OregonLive.com has an awesome spoiler-less preview to Wall-E! A poster there reportedly saw Pixar's next film at the Lloyd Center - along with John Lasseter!

Here's the scoop:

Monday evening a few friends and I saw what I presume was one of the first test screenings of Wall-E at the Lloyd Center. John Lassater was sitting behind us.

Pixar has done it again. I never saw Cars, didn't have much interest, yet I feel I should now see it at least once. Ratatouille was simply lovely and Wall-E is just as good if not better in it's own special way.

Wall-E has a much darker tone than any other Pixar film thus far. People complained about this aspect in the focus group (see morons!), but I think they were failing to see that the tone was very much intentional and serves the story and the final outcome.

The film is nearly dialog free for the first half, and the first 30 to 45 minutes is just spectacular. There is no dialog, just simple actions and character's expressions of Wall-E, the cockroach Hal, and this robot that appears named EVE.

To go into the details of the story would ruin some of the enjoyment, but for a film that was roughly 80% complete with a plethora of storyboards and partially completed animation throughout, I was completely immersed!

As the film was a work in progress the score was a temp track amalgam of John William's scores including some Star Wars cues (very subtle, discrete ones), some Superman music, music from Star Trek 2, Punch Drunk-Love(!!!), Brazil, and a few other films, but it worked so brilliantly I would almost rather see the film released that way, despite the inability to do so. I believe there were even a few bits and pieces of Gabriel Yared's score from the Lives of Others.

Ultimately this film is a very large step in direction towards animated features that are geared towards both children and adults and further raising the standard of quality Pixar films that much higher above the competition. There are no 'it' celebs of the moment in the film, nor a catchy pop song on the soundtrack as you would expect from Pixar, just quality storytelling.

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There you have it!