It is love at first sight. When WALL.E met EVE. At least for Wall-E, whereas for Eve, it takes a bit of pursuing - from the Earth to space, and back.

If robots falling in love is something new and slightly unbelievable to you, so will be the state of the trash-filled Earth shown in this movie, WALL.E.

Robots showing human emotions and displaying camaraderie are what you can expect in this lastest animation film from Disney. WALL.E (which aptly stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class), is the robot left alone, save for his only friend, a cockroach, in Earth to clear up the mess (by the sizes of skyscrapers built with trash) left by humans after they have taken up to live in space within the confines of a mega-spaceship Axiom. In there, humans continued to patronise the corporation Buy N Large which was responsible for the Earth’s incredible trash built-up, and their reason for evacuation from the place where they should belong.

They sit on chairs that move them around, and eat from cups. Yeah, they sip their meals via a straw, and they “interact” with everyone via video and TV. They grow so fat and become so dependent on robots powered by Buy N Large that they can’t even stand on their own. No, they can’t walk even though they have legs.

EVE, the babe that catches WALL.E’s attention and subsequently, his heart, comes from Axiom. EVE (short for Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) has the mission to look for, that’s right, vegetation. Once signs of life is found on Earth, then it signals the time for the humans to return.

With a stroke of luck, a burgeoning plant is found by WALL.E on one of his usual rubbish sorting, compressing and allocating days. This plant is to be the critical link between the humans revolving in space and their eventual return to Earth. Some adventures ensue as the autopilot robot prevent the Captain from directing the spaceship to Earth.

WALL.E and EVE make friends along the way. Like the ever-dutiful-and-most-responsible-ever cleaner that I have ever encountered in my life, the M-O (Microbe Obliterator). He is the cleaner robot, and boy, does he clean! Any particles that doesn’t originate from Axiom, like dust on Earth, is classified as a Foreign Contaminant, and it has to go! M-O cleans dirt unceasingly with his roller. Obviously, WALL.E does give him the biggest headache, as he has lived among the trash for a good ole’ 700 years. Oh btw, that’s the number of years humans have been surviving in Axiom.

Disney has successfully make robots, which are supposed to be cold, rigid and stiff cute and endearing. I love M-O, really! Oh, WALL.E is very sweet too, especially when he refuses to give up on EVE when she de-activates herself, meaning she’s totally unresponsive, while waiting for her mother spaceship to pick her up.

And can I add that WALL.E’s pet, that cockroach, is the only subject in the movie that doesn’t thrill me one bit? I was only waiting for it to die, and I wondered why it survive two times when WALL.E accidentally rolls over it. Gosh! Don’t they have a long life?

This film teaches us to be more concerned about our environment in a light-hearted and entertaining way. And, when even robots can fall in love and develop feelings for each other, what is there to complain?

Go watch WALL.E!