I first heard about "WALL-E" last year in trailers before "Ratatouille." I didn’t think that much of the film, but that’s to be expected because that first teaser trailer seemed a little thin.

I really didn’t start to take notice of "WALL-E" until I sat in on the Pixar roundtable at Comic-Con, and director Andrew Stanton came on to answer our questions. One of the reporters asked him if it was difficult making a movie with a main character that doesn’t talk.

Stanton glared at him from across the table and said with utter, stoic sincerity: “Oh he talks. He just doesn’t speak English.”...

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