Wall-E

I almost missed this one.

It's strange, that I had somehow got bored with Pixar. You KNOW that each time they release a film, it's going to be excellent. Funny, witty, interesting for everyone, in the most noble sense of the term.
I have been blown away by so many of their movies. The last one was The Incredibles, which counts as one of the best superhero movie ever made (and that's not a small thing to say from me, especially looking at how many movies of the genere I have seen only this year... ;) ).
I heard Cars was great, but "nothing more" (!). So I let it pass. Too family friendly. I WANTED BLOOD! (^_^;
I did that for Ratatouille as well...
I was about to do the same for Wall-E. When someone would have eventually dragged me to see it, I would have kicked myself...

You have great movies. Those you can advise your friends to see.
And you have those movies that move you so much you know they'll be with you for the rest of your life. Some kind of milestone.
Wall-E is one of those.

Because of course it is everything a Pixar should be. But it is even more. On just a technical level, it takes (as usual...) the medium to new heights. But it's almost irrelevant compared to what it is.
It is funny & witty, very kid friendly, yet it manages to tackles themes that are very adult and to question our very way of life (at least in this part of the world). It also manages to find a way to depict humanity that is utterly cute yet completely horrible and scary.
And it becomes more than an "eco-fable", it is also on some sort of corporate slavery. How man could de-evolve... A bit like Brazil did. But in a cuter, lighter way. Yet the message stays...

Such ambition for most could see as a "kids movie" (I hate that conception that animation pictures should be for kids, then again it's more or less the case here) is mind blowing. Even if you're a Pixar fan.
So to see it succeed in such a way is just unbelievable.

And everything is so perfectly crafted, from the description of the derelict earth to the relationships between characters, all this almost without words (as the robots don't talk)!

To be able to resist this, not to even have your eyes water in some of the poetic scenes, you would have to be dead.

It's just cinematic heaven.