Wall-E: Most adorable non-human since ET

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Not since ET can I remember a non-human protagonist this adorable. Set 700 years after humans abandoned the Earth, Wall-E is the story of the last robot on Earth who has been cleaning up the deserted planet, molding scrap metal into bricks and piling them up into neat towers. Having watched a scratchy videotape of the film musical Hello Dolly many times over, Wall-E yearns for companionship, and, as luck would have it, romance arrives in the form of a white oval-shaped probe-droid EVE, who's been sent to Earth to find signs of life. High-tech and armed with a laser weapon that destroys everything in sight,EVE fascinates Wall-E and he scuttles around her nervously, a tad afraid, but also totally smitten. When her job on Earth is done, she's summoned back to the mother ship. Love-struck Wall-E follows her there and discovers a corporatized space colony that's inhabited by gluttonous humans. Unlike any animation film you've seen before,Wall-E is a film with hardly any dialogue. Our hero himself doesn't speak at all,communicates at best in a few bleeps and other sounds.And yet the film itself has so much to say.