WALL-E (2008)

All Critics (236) | Top Critics (46) | Fresh (227) | Rotten (9) | DVD (31)

I wonder a little what kids will make of the long silence of the first half followed by the disorienting mania of the second, but there's nothing here that's not wonderfully imagined and lovingly presented.

November 18, 2011 Full Review

Dave Calhoun

Time Out

Top Critic

Among its many wondrous achievements, the animated WALL-E is a sci-fi trifecta: a vision of the future, a tale for our times and a blast from the past.

October 18, 2008 Full Review

Joe Williams

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Top Critic

The most consistent production unit in Hollywood just hit another home run.

October 18, 2008 Full Review | Comments (2)

Tom Charity

CNN.com

Top Critic

WALL-E is a classic, but it will never appeal to people who are happy with art only when it has as little bite as possible.

July 14, 2008 Full Review | Comments (4)

David Denby

New Yorker

Top Critic

You'd have to be a machine for your heart not to melt.

July 8, 2008 Full Review | Comments (4)

David Ansen

Newsweek

Top Critic

No movie can be a downer that fills you with pure exhilaration. You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic.

July 1, 2008 | Comments (7)

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Top Critic

Pick any 24th of a second, frame it and you could hang it on a museum wall.

October 14, 2012 Full Review

Ali Gray

TheShiznit.co.uk

WALL-E sparks with genuine creativity.

February 17, 2012 Full Review

Ben Kenigsberg

Time Out Chicago

It's a breathtaking, inspirational film, transcending the medium of animation and blossoming into a genuinely magnificent piece of cinema.

July 14, 2011 Full Review

Simon Reynolds

Digital Spy

This film deserves the Oscar. It deserves every Oscar. And a Nobel Prize for brilliantness. And I bet it would win it too if I hadn't just made it up...

April 8, 2011 Full Review

Mike Edwards

What Culture

It's not often that you find 'post-apocalyptic' and 'delightful' going together in the same sentence, but they're essential to describe the deceptively artful Wall-E.

March 7, 2011 Full Review

Joshua Starnes

ComingSoon.net

Some found ecological undertones too scolding. But the question of what happens to trash is a nice undertone - never overshadowing the endlessly renewable entertainment of "WALL-E's" plucky protagonist & carefully, comically choreographed physical humor.

December 2, 2010 Full Review

Nick Rogers

Suite101.com

Captivating

August 26, 2009 Full Review | Comments (2)

Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

That it ultimately falls short reflects less a failing than a raising of the bar: when you aim this high, you can beat all the competition even if you fail to set a new world record.

March 10, 2009 Full Review

Steve Biodrowski

Cinefantastique

Vastly overrated movie with all the charm of two vacuum cleaners making love.

March 2, 2009 Full Review | Comments (106)

Louis Proyect

rec.arts.movies.reviews

Disney-Pixar's greatest film yet; one of the ten best movies of 2008

February 27, 2009 Full Review | Comments (3)

Fr. Chris Carpenter

Orange County and Long Beach Blade

Ladies and gentlemen: believe the buzz! WALL-E is a bona-fide, all out masterpiece.

February 27, 2009 Full Review

Chris Bumbray

JoBlo's Movie Emporium

I'm a real sucker for animated rodents. I loved Ratatouille and I laughed fondly at the previews of the brave Despereaux in a movie coming out this winter. Adorable rodents, yes. Rusted robots, not so much. WALL-E is a rusted robot, who has been ge

February 1, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Tony Macklin

Fayetteville Free Weekly

...flat-out thrilling in its uniqueness...

November 22, 2008 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Not about high profile characters or big action, it delights by entertaining and inspiring more subtly. Who expected that from any movie these days, let alone an animated one?

November 13, 2008 Full Review

Brian Webster

Apollo Guide

Simplicity and complexity harmonize together in cinematic zen in the instant-classic WALL-E, a film that uses technical prowess to tell a straight-forward yet far-reaching story.

November 12, 2008 Full Review

Ryan Cracknell

Movie Views

WALL-E is everything that you've come to expect from a Pixar movie. It's sweet, clever, funny, and visually stunning... but man, does Pixar swing a big stick this time around.

October 18, 2008 Full Review

David Medsker

Bullz-Eye.com

WALL-E is something completely different for the kiddie crowd that will hold the attention of adults even with the 'G' rating.

October 18, 2008 Full Review | Comment (1)

Jonathan W. Hickman

Entertainment Insiders

• 1. WALL-E: Ee-Vah?
  – Submitted by Rolando C (6 days ago)
• 1. Captain: Well, good morning, everybody, and welcome to day 255,642 aboard the Axiom. As always, the weather is a balmy 72 degrees and sunny, and, uh. Oh, I see the ship's log is showing that today is the 700th anniversary of our five year cruise. Well, I'm sure our forefathers would be proud to know that 700 years later we'd be doing the exact same thing they were doing. So, be sure next mealtime to ask for your free sep-tua-centennial cupcake in a cup. Wow, look at that.
  – Submitted by Adam O (42 days ago)
• 1. Mary: I didn't know we had a pool!
  – Submitted by Adam O (42 days ago)
• 1. Captain: We'll see who's powerless now!
  – Submitted by Adam O (42 days ago)
• 1. WALL-E: [trying to pronounce his name] Wa... WwALL-E.
  – Submitted by David E (10 months ago)
• 1. Captain: This is called farming! You kids are gonna grow all kinds of plants! Vegetable plants, pizza plants.
  – Submitted by Karthi K (10 months ago)

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