WALL-E (2008), Andrew Stanton
Maybe it’s because I love science fiction or that I grew up loving the droids of Star Wars. Maybe it’s because I enjoy how film can tell a story with visuals. Whatever the reason may be, WALL-E is my personal favorite Pixar movie.
It’s certainly not the studio’s ultimate stamp on film history like the Toy Story movies, but it proves what even the silent filmmakers knew. Film is a visual medium. The first act of WALL-E isn’t beautiful because it makes you care about robots who can’t speak, but because it fully embraces that simple principle. You simply can’t take visuals for granted when making a movie.
The last two-thirds of WALL-E are just as good as the rest of the film, though. There’s still very little dialogue, but it never loses sight of the simple love story at its center.
If you want to know more about how Pixar works and even how the studio makes their shorts, please check out my interview with animator Jim Murphy, whose Lava short will be shown with Inside Out.
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