Theres a way to measure how well an animated film takes over your imagination.
Do you forget, during the movie, that youre even watching animation?
Do the textures and parameters, the fantasyland characters, become for lack of a better word real?
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He forges a world thats casually amazing in its tactile metallic grandeur.
As a character, WALL-E is like R2-D2 gone Charlie Chaplin in the land ofThe Road Warrior.
(Her name stands for Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator.)
These two dont talk, exactly, but they hold hands and burble each others names.
Its love at first mechanized heartbeep.
Yet even as the movie turns pointedly, and resonantly, satirical, it never loses its heart.
