Certainly appropriate for a blog of this sort, I saw the Pixar movie WALL-E today. It's more science fictional than most SF pictures, actually. Another winner from Pixar, who have yet to release a dud. I suppose I don't need to give a plot summary, as you can find that in all the usual movie review sites. But to add my two cents, I recommend this movie for adults and older kids. The very youngest kids, who you might expect to be the natural audience for cartoons may not really understand the SF conventions and post-apocalypse dystopia that's the setting for the first half of the movie. I pity the dad who sat in the row ahead of me with his two kids. They weren't getting it and kept asking if could they go home, and when would it be over? But all you older kids will love it.

One thing of note about this one: the movie almost looks photo-realistic for the first half, and you can easily forget that you're watching animation. But later in the movie, when some cartoonish-looking humans appear, it became more obvious it's animation. The robots look more real than the people in this world. But go see it. I'm already thinking that this movie will be a front-runner for next year's Nebula Awards. In fact, I think I'll put in a recommendation for it now.