Rewind: Wall-E

To mix things up around here, I occasionally weigh in with a haphazard review of a movie no longer available on County Road. For today's installment, though, I'm going to leave the work to the professionals, as The New Republic's Christopher Orr expresses my initial thoughts and feelings about Wall-E far more eloquently than I ever could. A sampling:

Characteristically sharp as this second half is,
though, it's the earlier, Earthbound portion of the film that lingers, the
quiet, nearly dialogue-free moments alone with WALL·E and the problematic object
of his affections. That Pixar could make this ambulatory trash compactor so
expressive, could convey his longing and loneliness so emphatically simply
through the images reflected in his binocular lenses, is a cinematic miracle.
You might have to go back the better part of a century to find a mainstream
movie in which so much is conveyed with so very few words.

- John C.L. Morgan