Friday, June 27, 2008

Review: 'Wall-E' is the best of the year


(CNN) -- The most consistent production unit in Hollywood just hit another home run.


Wall-E ponders a Rubik's Cube in the Pixar film "Wall-E."

Over the last decade, Pixar has become a byword for quality, combining cutting-edge digital animation with depth of character, slapstick comedy and rich, engrossing storytelling that appeals equally to kids and adults. "Wall-E" has all of that and more.

Written and directed by Andrew Stanton ("Finding Nemo"), it's Pixar's most ambitious movie and an instant classic.

Wall-E is a solar-powered garbage drone, the last one still operating on an abandoned toxic planet that looks an awful lot like -- well, is -- Earth. A rusty box sitting on caterpillar tracks, with a retractable binocular-shaped head, he compresses junk into building blocks and then piles them up into towers that are shadow-skyscrapers of waste in the ruins of an unidentified city.

Read full review here

2 comments:

JPX said...

I never gave this film much thought but given that its current score on Rotten Tomatoes is 98% I'm thinking it's a must-see.

AC said...

ty burr, boston globe reviewer, had this to say:

"With "WALL-E," Pixar at last takes the great leap forward many of us knew the company had in it. A "family movie" in name and MPAA rating only, it's a major visionary work, a sci-fi parable of astonishing scope and depth that is anchored by an adorable bucket of bolts and yoked to a sensibility that is - there's no other word for it - furious. It's also, by a substantial margin, the best American film of the year to date."

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