Man has abandoned the planet. The sheer volume of waste humans have produced has rendered the planet uninhabitable and they leave robots to clear up the mess. 700 years later the only thing left is WALL·E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth class), still doing his job compacting garbage into cubes and creating skyscrapers from the sheer volume of rubbish he has to clear up. In between his chores he repairs himself with the scrap parts of other fallen WALL·Es and scavanging anything that takes his eye. Cue the arrival of EVE (Extraterrestial Vegetation Evaluator), a far more advanced robot who WALL·E (besotted with his visions of humans holding hands in old musicals) falls hopelessly for.

The rest of their journey takes them halfway across space and deals with no less than the future of the planet and the human race - big stuff indeed. This film is utterly delightful. The animation is ridiculously good, at times you forget you're even watching an animated film. The characters are so well drawn that despite the robots having very limited communication with each other their relationship is utterly convincing, sweet and moving.

So it's a love story between robots spanning the stars, as I'd been forewarned by a very clever individual indeed these two robots have more chemistry than most romantic screen couples. The Andrew Stanton pixar films seem to be the most emotional of the bunch, this doesn't hit the constantly entertaining heights of a Brad Bird helmed Ratatouille for example, but it's a stunning film that hits all the right notes.

The main characters are totally adorable, the film is beautiful to look at (apparantly cinematographer extraordinaire Roger Deakins gave them advice on how he would light it were it a live action film and certain scenes hint that, the ships on fire for example mirrors scenes in There Will Be Blood) and is consistently amusing, if not laugh out loud funny all the time. The opening 30 mins or so is basically pure cinema as hardly a word of dialogue is uttered but we are presented masterfully with characters we know and care for. A wonderfully lovely adventure that I wouldn't hesitate to recommend to all people of all ages. Magnificent.