WALL*E

Love the risk Pixar took with this. What a fantastic company. I saw a documentary on them and they basically play with toys and fuck around for hours at a time, while churning out big-screen masterpieces on a yearly basis.

 

The reviews so far...

http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/walle

 

We're going to the matinee tomorrow.

BTW, Pixar is so consistently good that it's the only studio whose movies I will see/buy sight unseen.

 

Pretty much guaranteed to be the best reviewed movie of the year.

 

Fred Willard is the glue in most of the great comic films I have seen the past two decades.

He's unstoppable.

 

The movie meetup group I belong to is going to see it on Sunday. I'm tentatively planning on going.

 

The Globe gives it four stars--almost unheard of.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080627.wwall27/BNStory/Entertainment/home

While other studios plan their stories around marketing research, director-driven Pixar continues to invent worlds and invites the audience into them. 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.

I'm in.

 

You mean you didn't stop watching after Delany got out of the pool?

 

Reviewer here gave it a 90. He also gave the Love Guru an 85.
That dude is a dipshit.
And my plan is to see the matinee this afternoon.

 

More genius from Pixar.

WALL*E is fourth on my rankings of the company's murderer's row.

1. Toy Story
2. Toy Story 2
3. Finding Nemo
4. WALL*E
5. Ratatouille
6. Bug's Life
7. The Incredibles
8. Cars
9. Monsters, Inc.

Really, the top eight are pretty damned close.

For me, only Monsters is discernibly behind.

 

I liked it until WALL*E got raped and killed at the end.

It was a bit graphic for me.

 

Wall E looks so stupid on the commercials, I'm not sure how it could possibly be a good movie. But the critics are OVERWHELMINGLY saying it's a great movie.