WALL-E Is More Relevant Than Ever Today

With its meditations on A.I., overpopulation, and the climate crisis, WALL-E is even more relevant today than when it was first released. Since its release, WALL-E has been hailed as one of the greatest animated films – and one of the greatest science fiction films – ever made. It became the second Pixar movie (after Toy Story) to be immortalized in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for its cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance, and the first Pixar film to get a Criterion release. As a cautionary tale about the effects of climate change wrapped around a genre storyline, WALL-E is basically Don’t Look Up for kids.