WALL-E Blu-ray review
Following the success of eight consecutive commercial and critical megahits, Pixar Animation ventures into the future, into space, and into the realm of nearly photo-realistic computer animation. With main characters that utter almost no dialogue, it is brilliant visual storytelling that drives this animated epic into classic territory.
WALL-E is worthy of better cover art.
STORYTELLING: 
Wall-E is what I call fun and games storytelling. There is a section of a screenplay in the second act called fun and games in which the premise of the movie comes to life in a fun way. After this series of scenes it’s back to business as usual, back to dialogue and plot. WALL-E is a movie with a three act fun and games section, due partly to its light dialogue and well defined characters. Every scene is a joy to watch, and many scenes in the first act even have their own story arc. The first thirty nine minutes of WALL-E are perfect. Absolute storytelling perfection. It’s what happens at 00:39:31 that brings the streak of immaculate movie moments.
Silent characters in a children’s film say a lot about the quality of a script, after all it’s not easy to hold a child’s interest. WALL-E and EVA have intense visual chemistry to the point of ridiculousness. What Pixar has accomplished with these characters should be worn as a badge of excellence for decades to come. I wept during this movie because I believed so strongly in the emotions two robots felt for each other. 00:59:50 is a great example of this, and 01:29:15 made my tear ducts spill over like New Orleans in a Hurricane. Immensely enjoyable, it’s hard to fault WALL-E, but not impossible. My biggest gripe is the choice to combine live action humans with bulbous cartoon humans, a major disappointment after setting the bar so high early on.
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