Pixar knows how to make beautiful animated features. Wall-E is a technical masterpiece and is the cutting edge in digital animation. You can’t help but be astounded at all the details and depth of imagery. Disney/Pixar has made a great effort in turning a mobile trash compactor into a convincing emotive being. The story is a simple lonely boy meets girl-loses girl-rescues girl-saves mankind archetype. There is a kind of dark noir about it. Sort of a Mad Max/Bladerunner meets looney Tunes feel and look. The dreary Earth we initially see is spectacularly grim and dismal. Only an eccentric robot could find it appealing. When he follows his sweetheart to the ‘mothership’ we see a cartoon portrayal of humanity at its most sedentary. (already I’ve seen news reports of protests from calorically challenged advocacy groups) The moral of the story hits you with little subtlety. Man=Bad; Robots=Bad; Robots who somehow develop human feelings by watching old Disney musicals=Good; and without Man on the Earth, Gaia will recover…given 700 years or so. Wall-E is a movie to see and experience, don’t think too much about it.