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I liked "Presto," but nothing about it seemed terribly original. Definitely the ol' Warner Brothers' material, spiffed up with CG. Doesn't mean I appreciate it any less.
Loved WALL-E. Basically for the same reasons that MM gave. It took long enough to get to Iceland, and then we had to dig to find a place showing it in English (though if I had known that the first half of the film had no dialogue, I wouldn't have cared if the rest was dubbed in Icelandic.)
And I thought it was fantastic that the first half of the movie had no dialogue, that the story proceeded with visuals alone. I personally really enjoyed the visuals and the sounds... and I liked the message, even though the hypocrisy/irony of it was certainly not lost on me. I don't think it hurts to hit people on the head with that, because obviously people still don't get it (sitting behind our computers getting fat, conducting all of our social engagement via a screen). Go figure, it gets a thumbs up from me.
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And think not you can direct the course of Love;
for Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
--Khalil Gibran
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