Two round things, and lines.

I’m still amazed, roughly 48 hours later, of what Wall-E did and still could do.

It’s an amazing movie. It’s the perfect amalgamation of the simplest and best of storytelling, of presenting visuals and music and sound and emotions, and at the of it even manages to throw a few rather serious matters into our faces (a world we can destroy so easily is one, overtly obese and hover-chair reliant humans are another).

But what got me the most is how utterly astounding it is to stoke the heart, evoke comfort and love and sadness, with just two coloured lights for eyes, a heart-wrenching “No..No..”, and a small gesture of hand.

That, I think, is the biggest achievement in animation history.

Bravo, Pixar, and Thank You.

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I hope I’m not hyping it up too much.

But I feel that Wall-E had tapped on both the epitome and the deepest root in animation; if you can remember what Disney used to be able to do, then you’ll understand what I mean. For that reason itself, I can say that Wall-E is one of the greatest animated movies ever made.

(I’m not going to go into the other parts of the movie, namely the visuals and the music and the utter cuteness of most everything, because if you read just about any other movie review about it, professional or not, they’ve practically touched on it enough to wrinkle it and make it shrivel.)

It’s just a movie, and I think to some it’s probably nothing special, but how I see it, we’ve all forgotten how easy it was to be touched and transported by a simple movie of simple proportions.

Right, that’s about it. I’ve talked enough about Wall-E and if I start talking again I’ll be writing a thesis on it.