If you haven’t heard the praise heaped on Pixar’s new animated film, Wall-E, by professional critics you have been stuck in outer space for the last few weeks. This movie took in $65 million in its first weekend, coming in at number one at the box office. However, the moolah is nothing compared to the love being shown for the little robot that could. Wall-E went into the stratosphere on Rotten Tomatoes, garnering a 97% positive rating. Here is a smattering of some of the reviews of this cartoon space odyssey.

• Los Angeles Times - “Daring and traditional, groundbreaking and familiar, apocalyptic and sentimental, Wall-E gains strength from embracing contradictions that would destroy other films.”
• New York Post - “Some day, there will be college courses devoted to this movie.”
• 4.5/5
• Wall Street Journal - “I must drop my inhibitions about dropping the M word — especially since I’ve already used magnificent — and call WALL-E the masterpiece that it is.”

So does this film even come near the hype being built for it? Not only does Wall-E meet the hype, this movie surpasses it. There are so few words spoken in the film itself and there are also few words to describe the cinematic beauty, story depth and humanism of this cartoon about two robots. Wall-E better receive the Oscar for best film of the year - at the very least. I suspect this film will go down as a classic and as a new archetype for future films.

The movie reminded me of what is really important and how much time I waste on other activities. For example, I have not posted for a while because I am having technical problems and can not post images or video. After a lot of time spent scowering Wordpress help forums, and still with no luck - I realize my words are enough. No technical issues are going to stop me from declaring this one of my favorite movies of all time.