July 19th
Wall-E** (U)
Flicks Clacton

700 years in the future, a waste disposal robot falls in love with a surveillance robot sent from outer space to search for signs of life on Earth.
Charming animated romantic sci-fi, but still a little soulless (the heroes are robots and the humans are even more robotic); a witty technological take on the Creation as well as a satire on American consumerism, which for the purposes of mainstream cinema becomes an adventure to get back to a rather dirty Earth, complete with 2001-style computer villain. Likely to become another big hit for the Pixar studio.

p: Jim Morris.
d: Andrew Stanton
voices of: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, Sigourney Weaver, and featuring Fred Willard

+ WALL-E: Waste Allocation Load Lifter - Earth-class

Derek Malcolm (Evening Standard) review
Preceded by:
Presto*
(A magician's rabbit refuses to co-operate until he gets his carrot.; d: Doug Sweetland.)