Whilst clearly an amazing technical achievement and utterly beautiful as a work of art, Wall-E left me a little disheartened. There are moments of joy and the character himself is appealing but it never gets off the ground as a tale.

The typical Pixar strength of story was jettisoned in favour of a simplistic, and heavy-handed, morality tale about technological dependance an the evils of corporate waste. The robot love story is the most effective part of the movie, despite only consisting of three words, if only the rest of the film was so successful.