Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Favorite Movie of the Year


Don't get me wrong, I loved Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, and I thought the first half of Indy was truly amazing, but.....Wall-E has my heart. I'm not sure another movie can touch what Wall-E did. If you love Pixar movies, you've probably seen it. If you're indifferent to animated movies you NEED to see this film. Have you ever left a film that just makes you happy? This one will. The thing that is great about Wall-E is that kids will enjoy the humor, but years from now they'll revisit this gem of a movie and love it for different reasons. Kurt Loder from MTV says this about Wall-E,
"The picture is truly brilliant on several levels. The first half is virtually
wordless, and it has the spare, kinetic beauty of silent movies, tapping into pre-verbal pleasure centers we've half-forgotten we have. The characters' anthropomorphic qualities never lapse into simple-minded cuteness, but remain rooted in their mechanical nature. To watch WALL-E rubbing his clamps together in clinking concern is to be charmed beyond all resistance; and his marveling response to the vast, junk-free reaches of outer space makes your heart swell in sympathetic wonder. Pixar has once again burst the boundaries of the animation ghetto, creating a world so intricately worked-out, so ravishing, that we don't feel we're just watching it — we're visiting. And at the end, in that rarest of responses, we don't want to leave."
So do yourself a favor and get to the theatre and see this film. Don't walk....run.

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