Wall-E

The animation in Wall-E is amazing, even by today's spoiling standards. Everything just looks real.

It's a major visionary work, a sci-fi parable of astonishing scope and depth that is anchored by an adorable bucket of bolts and yoked to a sensibility that is -- there's no other word for it -- furious.

The latest achievement from Pixar Animation Studios is the best science-fiction film so far this year, the best romance so far this year and the best American studio film so far this year.

A marvel of state-of-the-art technological achievement -- perhaps the most brilliantly designed, beautifully executed and technically accomplished feature yet from Pixar.

One of the year's best films, Wall-E likely will go on to be considered one of the greatest animated movies ever created.

One of Pixar's very best movies, making it one of the best movies of all time -- animated or otherwise.

Wall-E is not only a triumph in terms of style, it's also a triumph in terms of story.

A clever and groundbreaking motion picture like nothing you’ve seen before, Wall-E is a hilarious, heartfelt and extraordinary comedy adventure that pushes animation to new heights while providing pure out-of-this-world summer fun.

It's a layered, nuanced, beautifully rendered film that manages to be tender, lighthearted and socially relevant without getting cutesy, sentimental or heavy-handed.

This is a work of genuine sci-fi, filled with ideas and allegories about our future, the qualities that distinguish us as sentient beings and the emotions that motivate us to alter our destiny.

Wall-E, the new animated film from Pixar, had me a little misty-eyed. Lumpy in the throat, even. Smiling through tears like an audience member at an Oprah taping. And that was just in the first five minutes.

Kids will love Wall-E, the robot's epic adventure and his heart-tugging love story. Some adults may be less comfortable, which is fine with me; most great works of art are inherently subversive.

Rated G and boasting one of the most charming underdog heroes to appear onscreen in a long while, Wall-E is wonderfully original and well-crafted entertainment for all ages.

Wall-E, a sci-fi savvy Pixar comedy, has almost no dialogue. But with images and sound effects alone, it touches, it teaches and it tickles. It's the best Pixar film since Finding Nemo.

Wall-E never feels preachy or pushy, instead letting the witty storytelling and expressive animation transport audiences to another world.

Wall-E is a surprisingly moving parable of what we waste, and what we should cherish -- and wrapped in a romance so absurdly moving it could wring a tear or two even from Gort and Robby the Robot. Or a parent and child.

Continuing a string of successes that pit Pixar films against only other Pixar films in terms of quality animation, Wall-E makes the count nine masterpieces in a row.

The newest and greatest of all films by Pixar Animation, the little Disney studio with the Midas touch.

It can hardly be called a children's film, but a masterpiece of feature-film animation for all ages.

Who would guess that a movie with minimal dialogue and a love story between robots could emerge as one of the best films of the summer? And who would think a tale could be both post-apocalyptic and charming?

It's Pixar's most daring experiment to date, but it still fits neatly into the studio's pantheon: Made with as much focus on heart as on visual quality, it's a sheer joy.

Wall-E conjures magical comedy out of the confusions of adolescence and the wrong turns of adulthood, as well as the exuberance of childhood. It's sometimes bright, sometimes gloomy, but always engaging and accessible.

Get ready to fall in love with a glorified trash compactor -- and ditto for his little buddy, a cute cockroach.

This is full-blown science fiction, with all of the future shock and cautionary punch the term warrants. It's also an often-wordless robot romance with the dexterity and emotional heft of Chaplin's City Lights.

The most astonishing thing about this film is its first half plays out with only a scant word or two of dialogue, so this most modern of computer-generated forms melds with the classic silent movie spirits of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

For a while, Wall-E is nearly wordless, and the director, Andrew Stanton, stages the early scenes with a gentle, unhurried mystery that is unabashedly Spielbergian. He forges a world that's casually amazing in its tactile metallic grandeur.

Wall-E is a heart-wrenching love story, a biting social satire and a funny adventure. It's not only one of the best animated movies, but also among the top science-fiction films in recent years.

Beneath the top-shelf animation, the too-cute robot speak and the futuristic ecology lesson is an old-fashioned boy-meets-girl story, even if the boy looks like a trash compactor and the girl resembles an iPod.

If the premise weren't quite so lazy or noticeable (the nature of the plot makes it impossible not to think about it) I might say Wall-E was perfect, or at least as close as anyone can reasonably get.

A masterpiece on par with Pixar's very best films, Andrew Stanton's overdue follow-up to Finding Nemo is everything one could possibly want from a film about a robot finding love, and even more.

Inspiration seems to be in short supply in Hollywood, but not at Pixar, where Wall-E is just the latest shining example of the studio’s creative risks and high standards.

Never before have the world's most influential animators been as bold and forthright about their dark vision for humanity as in Wall-E, a potent environmental message wrapped up in an irresistibly cute romance between robots.

Pixar’s Wall-E succeeds at being three things at once: an enthralling animated film, a visual wonderment and a decent science-fiction story.

The machines, environments and caricatures in Wall-E are not just a lesson in the things Pixar does better than anyone; they're a reminder of the intelligent life that goes into doing them.

Pixar has come through with yet another brilliant exercise in global heartwarming.

With so little dialogue, Wall-E relies to a large extent on physical humor, practically a lost art.

This is Pixar's most audacious film yet, and some small children may become impatient with the film's long wordless stretches.

A romance that begins in Charlie Chaplin territory -- Wall-E is like the Little Tramp making his lonely way through a frightening world -- and then shifts into 2001 territory.

Wall-E is yet another notch in Pixar's computer-animation belt, and it's one of the better entries, with greater emotional resonance than anything they've done since Finding Nemo.

Wall-E will certainly split audiences, with many embracing it as a cult classic and others being bored silly by it. Personally, I cannot wait to see it again and discover more of what it contains.

Wall-E is probably the sweetest movie ever made about humans destroying the earth. Sweet, but not sugar-coated.

Wall-E, an animated robot love story with an environmental message and a slapstick delivery, is a charmer of a film and a delightful piece of storytelling.

Wall-E is the rare movie that's both substantial and enchanting. It's not only a contender for the best film of the year, it belongs in a time capsule to teach future inhabitants of this planet what it means to be human.

This is Pixar's finest and most emotionally powerful film yet, and it draws on a wealth of cinematic resources that run the gamut from Chaplin's best to Buster Keaton, Jacques Tati, and even Martin and Lewis.

Whimsical Wall-E might not reach the comedic heights and emotional depths of Pixar's primo pics, but goll-e, it's still reall-e good.

It’s quite literally quiet: there’s almost no dialogue. This marvelously balanced film doesn’t belabor its more pensive aspects (the way that George Miller’s Happy Feet did).

This latest achievement from Disney's Pixar Studios rotates around a rusty little robotic hero who's built, as the movie is, with such emotion, brains and humor that whole universes exist in his whirring tones and binocular eyes.

A dead planet and a love-starved robot are the unusual ingredients that make Wall-E spin. And spin it does, with romance, sentiment, adventure and some very funny moments.

The problems with Wall-E -- and there are some -- come because Pixar's latest and arguably its most ambitious G-movie to date opens within a post-apocalyptic realm.

Too much of it feels insanely pretentious -- a film-school geek’s mash-up of Chaplin-esque silent comedy and Kubrickian existentialism.

You can’t make advances without taking risks and making a few missteps. Wall-E bravely charges into themes and style that few movies -- much less animated ones -- have dared to explore.

With rich, detailed, cinematic animation and terrific sound effects, Wall-E pulls this unlikely love story off.

When it works, it really works, but it's debatable whether its target audience will really enjoy anything more than the nifty robots. Which is fine, too. Robots are pretty cool.

Wall-E is a technical gem, a marvel of sound design and just a little too ambitious to continuously captivate.

Philosophically and emotionally, this is probably the most profound animated film ever made or attempted.

Wall-E uses our nostalgia for our youth to reconnect us with our essential goodwill -- an appeal that's impossible to resist whenever you stare into Wall-E's peepers.

Wall-E has adventure, danger and thrills to be sure, but for this viewer, the animated tale seemed to be more about the animation and less about the storytelling.

The film's first half is devoted to Wall-E doing all manner of cute things to make him seem more lovable, which is great if you're 6 years old or think the concept of a robot failing to work a lightbulb is knee-slappingly hilarious.