Cartoons

WALL-E is outstanding, emotional and utterly adorable. Only Pixar could pull off a story about robots in love with this much success.
WALL-E and EVE project more humanity and genuine emotion than most human characters I've seen in films lately.
The clever sense of humor that is as much PIXAR's trademark as the dazzling animation doesn't fail. Exploiting the visual nature of the medium, the first 20 minutes are virtually soundless, but spiked with so much flawlessly executed slapstick, the dialogue isn't missed. Some of it is more subtle. WALL-E's bumbling courtship of the completely indifferent EVE has as much truth about humanity's sweetness and perseverance as any piece of great literature, but there is also something keenly yet absurdly logical in WALL-E's confusion over how to classify the ambiguity of a spork in order to store it properly in his collection of human artifacts. Some of it is a forthright poke in the eye, as it lays bare the folly of a disposable society in which humans have become too distracted by virtual reality to engage in anything resembling real-time interaction. It's not just funny that everyone is surprised to discover that there's been a pool on the Lido Deck for 700 years, it also has more than a touch of creepy foreboding in a present-day of I-Pods, Bluetooth, and PDAs.
WALL-E isn't just a great animated movie, as enchanting as it is droll, as smart as it is silly, it's a great movie. Period.