Prince of Pixar ... WALL-E
It's a pity WALL-E only has eyes for fellow robot EVE, because the critics have fallen head over wheels for Pixar's lovable mechanised litter picker. This tale of a 'bot left alone to clean up a rubbish-strewn Earth while humanity embarks for pastures new has left writers grasping desperately for superlatives on both sides of the Atlantic.
"This is Pixar's most enthralling entertainment since Nemo," writes Richard Corliss in Time magazine, while the Independent's Anthony Quinn gasps: "This studio is so good it's almost spooky."
Amid the praise, however, there is the suggestion that the film, which many compare to pictures from the silent era, might have been even better had its second half been as good as its beguiling first.
"What we have with WALL-E is 45 minutes of a masterpiece and another 50-odd minutes of dithering," writes Mick LaSalle in the San Francisco Chronicle," while our own Xan Brooks says: "WALL-E is at its best during its audacious, dialogue-free opening third, as its hero harvests the flotsam of a spent planet, trundling back and forth among the derelict filling stations and corroded oil tankers."
What about you? Did WALL-E leave you blinking in wide-eyed disbelief at Pixar's genius, or did you find the whole thing a little clunky?
