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Animation studio Pixar can do no wrong. After the amazing Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles and Ratatouille, you'd think that their new movie Wall.E would not be able to live up to the extraordinary cartoons they've made before. After all those mega-successes, you'd think they'd be running out of steam and/or ideas. Right? Wrong.

Wall.E confirms once again that the folks at Pixar are anything but out of ideas. Although this one did not make as much money at the American box-office as their previous hits, it is still a bundle of laughs, charm and loveability � making it the second must-watch of the week.

Set in the year 2775, Wall.E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) is a robot designed to gather trash, compress it into neat cubes, and then stack those cubes one atop of the other. Wall.E's work is endless. Earth, as we know it, has become so polluted that humans no longer live on the planet. Instead, they are all cruising in luxury spaceships somewhere in deep space, without a thought for the little planet their ancestors once inhabited.

With few living beings to interact with, Wall.E feels rather lonely. So when a state-of-the-art female robot arrives on earth on a reconnaissance mission, Wall.E falls for her hard, very hard...

The film is funny, charming and visually arresting. It is also eco-friendly, gently nudging you to think carefully about the future of our planet. Because a substantial portion of the film goes without dialogue, Wall.E may not be as kid-friendly as previous Pixar's pictures, and that perhaps explains its less than sterling box-office performance. But this lonely little robot is so loveable that it will likely find a place in your heart.