Beware Spoil­ers! My sis­ter and I went to see wall·e this after­noon. After the extra­or­di­nary suc­cess of Rata­touille, I had high expec­ta­tions for Pixar. Pixar has con­sis­tently offered excel­lent films with lov­able char­ac­ters, engag­ing sto­ries, and exquis­ite imagery. When Dis­ney bought out the stu­dio, I was seri­ously wor­ried that their inde­pen­dence and cre­ativ­ity would suf­fer — Disney’s in-​​​​house ani­ma­tion projects had been famously bad up to that point. Home on the Range and Brother Bear come imme­di­ately to mind. I was wor­ried. Rata­touille started pro­duc­tion before the acqui­si­tion. I believe wall·e is the first Pixar film pro­duced fully under Dis­ney own­er­ship. When I saw the early [ . . . ]

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