Got a free rental from Hollywood Video for my birthday last week, so I picked up WALL-E. It was one I had wanted to see in the theater, but my wife had no interest, so I ended up watching it by myself on the couch over the weekend.

It... was... incredible! Possibly the best of the Pixar movies (yes, I said it - maybe better than even Toy Story). This is great filmmaking. You are shown this world in which Wall-E lives... they don't tell you what happened to get the earth to this point with any voiceover or some sort of montage that takes us from today to this future point. Instead you're able to figure it out through all of the visual clues on screen while Wall-E zips around collecting, compacting, and stacking piles of trash.

I'm really impressed by this film. It's a little robot, but somehow without dialogue they completely convey his loneliness, curiosity, excitement, and love. I won't give away much of the plot here, but the Pixar folks had me (again, sitting alone on my couch) cheering, laughing, staring in wonder, and even a little choked up at various points through the movie.

It's a great film with a great message... great for the kids... great for adults. Definitely one of the best movies I've seen in 2008.