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Director: Andrew Stanton. Cast: Fred Willard, and the voices of Ben Burtt, Jeff Garlin, Sigourney Weaver, John Ratzenberger. Running time: 1 hour 32 minutes. Industry rating: PG. The late, great Stanley Kubrick ("2001:A Space Odyssey") used to say that if you can turn off the sound and still follow the story, you've made a film, but if you black out the picture and can still follow the story with only the sound, you haven't. "WALL-E," a savvy sci-fi Pixar comedy, has almost no dialogue. But with images and sound effects alone, it touches, it teaches and it tickles. It's the best Pixar film since "Finding Nemo." If "Kung Fu Panda," which riffed on martial-arts movie conventions, was clever, "WALL-E," which absorbs, recycles and reinvents elements of "2001," "Silent Running," "Star Wars" and other sci-fi, is genius. Some 700... [read full story]
