WALL-E Review - Read Variety's Analysis Of The Movie WALL-E

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Wall-E Review
Published 6/26/2008 by Variety.com * at Thompson On Hollywood
... Todd McCarthy wrote his rave of Pixar's latest, Wall-E, late Wednesday night after seeing the film at a screening I wish I had been able to attend. (I was on my usual weekly column deadline.) I went to see it Tuesday night but the traffic around Hollywood Boulevard was so impenetrable that I had to give up and turn around. ARRGH! ...

Careful and Cool
Published 6/26/2008 at Hollywood Elsewhere
Careful and Cool " WALL*E pushes an agenda that could, and no doubt will, be interpreted as 'green,' or ecologically minded," writes Variety 's Todd McCarthy in his just-published positive review. "It's a theme that is certainly present, at least as pertains to what forced humanity off the planet in the first place. But in a bigger sense, the picture seems to be making a quiet pitch for taking clear-headed responsibility for the health of the planet as well as one's body and mind. The adages about how you must lie in the bed you make, and you are what you eat -- both would ...

Everyone Who Loves 'Wall-E,' Step Forward! Not So Fast, Republicans, Fat People [Robots With Human Emotions]
Published 6/26/2008 by Kyle Buchanan at Defamer
... guest blogger is comfortable calling it a colossal achievement — an assertion backed up by other reviews going live today, including Variety's and ...

Wall-E Reviews - Incredible
Published 6/26/2008 by Sheridan Passell at Movie Moron
... of the very best silent movies 60 years ago. It punches across its terrific (and ecologically sound!) story by inventing a visual and aural language with which these robotic creatures can express a rainbow of emotions.” USA Today – “…a significant departure for the studio, with its sci-fi plot and soundtrack of beeps and buzzes that serve as communication between the bots… WALL•E is inventive, poignant and funny.“ Variety – “…a simple yet deeply imagined piece of speculative fiction. Despite ...

Pixar's Masterpiece? Wall-E Really IS That Amazing!
Published 6/27/2008 by Alex Billington at FirstShowing.net
... Lastly, although I don't like his writing style or his reviews, Variety's head critic Todd McCarthy chimes in with another positive review. Here is a brief excerpt from McCarthy's review of Wall-E: ...

Wall-E : It's Not Easy Being Green [Critical Mass]
Published 6/27/2008 by maria-mercedes at Jezebel
... hero; it's up to him to save a spacebound colony of humans who've ''evolved'' into hilariously infantile technology-junkie couch potatoes. Yet even as the movie turns pointedly, and resonantly, satirical, it never loses its heart. I'm not sure I'd trust anyone, kid or adult, who didn't get a bit of a lump in the throat by the end of WALL-E, a film that brings off what the best (and only the best) Pixar films have: It whisks you to another world, then makes it every inch our own. Variety : That, presumably, could be addressed in a sequel. In the meantime, "Wall-E" pushes an ...

Fan Rant: Why 'Wall-E' Isn't "Hypocritical"
Published 6/30/2008 by Eugene Novikov at Cinematical
... from the New York Post's Kyle Smith, but also showing up in Todd McCarthy's Variety review, is that Wall-E's supposed anti-consumerist bent is "hypocrisy" on account of it's released by Disney. I think that's a stupid and dishonest argument, and here's why. ...