Wall-E

The one word I keep going back to when I think of this movie is 'visionary.' This movie is visionary. It's deep, it's dark, it's intelligent, and it stands next to other Pixar masterpieces like 'Ratatouille, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, and Toy Story' as yet another vastly superior (at least in the realm of animation) work of art. I haven't seen any other animated movies this year, but as i said about Ratatouille the year before, it would stun me if another movie took away the Oscar statuette. This movie is that good. 
Wall-E is a chaplinesque fable about a the last robot on Earth. His name is Wall-E (which stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth Class) and he was left on Earth as all the humans had turned the place into an unlivable garbage dump and exiled themselves to a spaceship resort. Being the only thing left on Earth Wall-E is unbearably lonely and spends his time making trash skyscrapers, hangin with his cockroach pal (apparently the last of his kind too), and watching an old VCR tape of 'Hello Dolly.' When a spaceship lands and unloads a hi-tech female robot named EVE, there is nothing more that Wall-e would want to do than hold its hand, which is seemingly as far Streisand got in 'Hello Dolly.' To say this movie succeeds as a sweet robot love story though is too sell the story short. It is also as a cautionary portrait of dystopic future. 
The Second Half of this world is contained in the human space colony where the race has turned into severely obese couch potatoes who live in front of TV screens and have robots take care of their every need. Its a harrowing portrait. Everything is really bright and cheerful, but everyone is fat, stupid, and lazy. Does that sound like something you'd see in a children's movie. Like Ratatouille this movie will generate more appreciation, I think, in adults or those with some life experience. The ideas in this movie are profound. I had seen a few of them in small unknown movie called Idiocracy (like huge Costco's, and stupid fat humans) but here they are handled in a superior movie. 
But I'm leaving something out and that's this movie is also very funny. It also works as a comedy. Since it is mostly wordless most of the jokes are robot beeps and physical comedy. Still its very funny at parts. I especially liked it when he tried to get Eve's attention on Earth and when all the humans attempted to walk. 
Overall though the greatest joy is the sheer beauty of the world Pixar has created here. The attention to detail, the magnificent spacescapes, the whole other world. This movie succeeds not only as a comedy, a love story, a social satire, but also, more importantly perhaps, a top-notch science fiction tale.