And I love it for exactly the reason you hate it. Pixar trusted their audience enough to be able to pay attention to a story that was beautiful and rich in details, and that unfolded slowly and patiently. And the payoff was great as you learned to genuinely care about two robots who communicated in beeps and boops before the story really started to accelerate in the second half.

It's the complete opposite of the approach of lesser studios like Dreamworks with their constant parade of wacky animals, celebrity voices, headache-inducing explosions of color and lazy pop culture callbacks. In an age where nobody seems to have an attention span of longer than 15 seconds Wall-E gave us a story that unfolded with the deliberate patience of a classical symphony, and that rewarded that patience just as satisfyingly.