Believe the hype: Wall-E is a great movie. You've probably already read glowing reviews with the requisite references to Buster Keaton/Charlie Chaplin meets Stanley Kubrick, so I won't pile on another one. I will say those references -- however repetitious -- are completely justified.
Besides being funny, sweet, scary and sad, it's an effective indictment of our throw-away culture of convenience. It's commendable that Pixar and Disney, two giant culture makers, made such a film.
And on top of all that, the animation is mouth-dropping. Even on a tiny, concessions-stained screen in Podunk, Georgia.
Watch some trailers here.
At the box office of the same Podunk, Georgia, theater, I mistakenly asked for two tickets to see Wale (Wall-Lay), not a movie, but a much buzzed about rapper from D.C. He recently released a free downloadable mixtape of songs centered around Seinfeld called "The Mixtape About Nothing." On the opener, Wale raps over a funkified version of the Seinfeld theme song, making his own cultural observations using Jerry Seinfeld's patented "What's the deal with..." phrase.
There's also a track (file?) called the The Kramer (guess what that's about) and a shoutout from Julia Louis-Dreyfuss.
Download and listen to it here.
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