WALL-E Reviews
Top CriticI 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.
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| Original Score: 5/5
The most consistent production unit in Hollywood just hit another home run.
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.
You'd have to be a machine for your heart not to melt.
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.
| Original Score: 4/4
The new Pixar picture Wall-E is one for the ages, a masterpiece to be savored before or after the end of the world -- assuming, like the title character, you're still around when all the humans have taken off and have access to an old video player.
It is a story about love and loneliness, perseverance and triumph, the possibilities and pitfalls of human existence. That this story is told by way of the exploits of a tiny, faceless robot only makes it more extraordinary.
The picture feels weirdly, and disappointingly, disjointed, something that starts out as poetry and ends as product.
The power of WALL-E as a character, the poetic figure of the robot drawn to human splendor, remains powerful throughout -- and Pixar's loveliest creation.
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| Original Score: 3/4
WALL-E is a surprisingly moving parable of what we waste, and what we should cherish -- and wrapped in a romance so absurdly moving it could wring a tear or two even from Gort and Robby the Robot. Or a parent and child.
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| Original Score: 4/4
This latest achievement from Disney's Pixar Studios rotates around a rusty little robotic hero who's built, as the movie is, with such emotion, brains and humor that whole universes exist in his whirring tones and binocular eyes.
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| Original Score: 4/5
WALL-E is Pixar's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial or its Pinocchio: an archetypal fable about loneliness simple enough -- yet deep enough -- to instantly captivate anyone who sees it.
| Original Score: 4/4
It works; this is Pixar's most enthralling entertainment since Nemo.
The greatest of all films by Pixar Animation, the little Disney studio with the Midas touch.
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| Original Score: 4/4
His intelligence may be artificial, but his heroism is anything but superficial.
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| Original Score: 3/4
WALL-E is yet another notch in Pixar's computer-animation belt, and it's one of the better entries, with greater emotional resonance than anything they've done since Finding Nemo.
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| Original Score: A-
Pixar's robot romance is crazily inventive, deliriously engaging and emotionally true.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Mixing Chaplinesque delicacy with the architectural grandeur of a Stanley Kubrick film, director Andrew Stanton recycles film history and makes something fresh and accessible from it without pandering to a young audience.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Put simply, WALL-E is about as charming as movies get.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
This is a film that stretches the expectations and reaches of animation at the same time it offers fantastic entertainment value to its audience.
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| Original Score: A
I must drop my inhibitions about dropping the M word -- especially since I've already used magnificent -- and call WALL-E the masterpiece that it is.
The attention to detail -- always a Pixar hallmark -- is amazing, and Stanton and his crew incorporate surprising elements that mix vintage sci-fi with old musicals with a meta-cartoon rendering of the future.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Wall-E is an improbable delight, a G-rated crowd-pleaser that seems poised to pack theaters as efficiently as the titular robot crams his chest cavity with rubble.
It is, undoubtedly, an earnest (though far from simplistic) ecological parable, but it is also a disarmingly sweet and simple love story, Chaplinesque in its emotional purity.
| Original Score: 4.5/5
It whisks you to another world, then makes it every inch our own.
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| Original Score: A
Continuing a string of successes that pit Pixar films against only other Pixar films in terms of quality animation, WALLE makes the count nine masterpieces in a row.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Daring and traditional, groundbreaking and familiar, apocalyptic and sentimental, Wall-E gains strength from embracing contradictions that would destroy other films.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Dangerously close to the sublime, a film that will be dissected and enjoyed for years to come.
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| Original Score: A
Like Charlie Chaplin's best silents -- a clear influence -- WALL-E is pure visual magic. As a bonus, it packs a wicked satirical punch.
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| Original Score: 4/4
The idea that an ancient Hollywood musical, with its love duets and foot-tapping dance numbers, would be the thing that awakens emotions in both humans and robots, is pure genius.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Eco-friendly, pro-exercise and featuring a glorious use of a fire extinguisher, WALL-E sparks with genuine creativity.
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| Original Score: 4/6
Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton tops himself with this adorably loopy Pixar animation that sends up consumerism, musicals, Apple computers, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
A jewel of a film in conception, execution and message.
Some day, there will be college courses devoted to this movie.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Pixar's WALLE succeeds at being three things at once: an enthralling animated film, a visual wonderment and a decent science-fiction story.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Who would guess that a movie with minimal dialogue and a love story between robots could emerge as one of the best films of the summer? And who would think a tale could be both post-apocalyptic and charming?
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| Original Score: 4/4
This is Pixar's most audacious film yet, and some small children may become impatient with the film's long wordless stretches. But the storytelling is so meticulous and skilled, some may not even notice the absence of dialogue.
| Original Score: 3.5/4
Andrew Stanton is resourceful enough to find infinite ways for them to express themselves - amusingly, achingly, and with emotional precision. He's also created, with the help of a team of animators, a visual marvel.
Pixar's ninth consecutive wonder of the animated world is a simple yet deeply imagined piece of speculative fiction...it has plenty to say, but does so in a light, insouciant manner that allows you to take the message or leave it on the table.
It's remarkable to see any film, in any genre, blend honest sentiment with genuine wit and a visual landscape unlike any other.
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| Original Score: 4/4
This is getting to sound like a broken record: Pixar Animation Studios has just topped itself. Again.
The animation is stunning; the landscapes of the futuristic Earth offer the Pixar folks ample opportunity to show off their wares.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
A film that's both breathtakingly majestic and heartbreakingly intimate.
One of the best movies of the year. Just so beautifully done.
