With 24 reviews so far and still counting, Wall-E has a 96% rating so far on Rotten Tomatoes. There’s a great review in the Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt. He says,

This is getting to sound like a broken record: Pixar Animation Studios has just topped itself. Again.

The film is so clever and sophisticated that you worry, slightly, that it may be too clever to connect with mainstream audiences. But like those worries last year that having a rat for a hero in “Ratatouille” might throw off audiences, “Wall-E” is so sweet and funny that the multitudes will undoubtedly surrender to its many charms.

Hopefully with Wall-E’s success this summer, other studios will be willing to take the plunge and develop more sophisticated stories in the animation medium.