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What's behind the "WALL-E" cult?

Is Pixar's Chaplin-meets-Kubrick robot romance really the best animated film ever? Plus: Answers to our "Sukiyaki Western Django" quiz revealed!
Andrew O'Hehir

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  • Wednesday, November 19, 2008 08:53 PM

    yet another homage to 2001

    wall-e's forced happy ending is a tribute to the even crappier happy ending of 2001, where the alien space gods take us to the new heights of evolution (space-embryo) or whatever.

    but seriously, i seem to remember a similar number of people last year who felt ratatouille could be the best movie of the year. andrew, maybe it's only a "cult" this year because you don't like wall-e as much?

    i second the other reader comments rightfully scolding you for the "just a cartoon" laziness

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