Over the weekend, I saw Wall-E and it is as charming and inventive as you’ve heard—the first half more than the second.
Wall-E is a delightful robot still compacting trash hundreds of years after humans have abandoned the polluted Earth for space.

Here’s the start of Roger Ebert’s review:
Pixar’s “WALL•E” succeeds at being three things at once: an enthralling animated film, a visual wonderment and a decent science-fiction story. . . .(H)ere is a film, like “Finding Nemo,” that you can enjoy even if you’ve grown up. That it works largely without spoken dialogue is all the more astonishing; it can easily cross language barriers, which is all the better, considering that it tells a planetary story.

But don’t tell that to some conservatives.
Here’s Shannen Coffin from National Review Online’s The Corner:
“From the first moment of the film, my kids were bombarded with leftist propaganda about the evils of mankind. It’s a shame, too, because the robot had promise. The story was just awful, however. Nice to see that Disney and Pixar can make mega-millions off of telling us just how greedy, lazy, and destructive we all are. There’s no hope for mankind. Hand over your wallet.”
And Greg Pollowitz on National Review Online’s Planet Gore:
“It was like a 90-minute lecture on the dangers of over consumption, big corporations, and the destruction of the environment.”

Afteward I couldn’t help but notice all the trash all around — on the sides of the roads, on the sidewalks. And the haze that engulfed the New York City skyline by the end of the weekend.