Why WALL-E Is Pixar’s Most Important Film Ever

Tom Kuegler
8 min readApr 10, 2023

WALL-E just might be Pixar’s most powerful film, and that’s saying something for a studio that’s won 18 Academy Awards.

I feel like WALL-E is a largely forgotten about film that gets lost in Pixar’s catalog of mega-hits like Toy Story, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc., and Up.

And that’s a shame, because I think WALL-E might just be the most important Pixar film ever made.

In this article I’ll break down why.

If you want to watch the video version of this article, it’s linked right here:

1. It Deals With Very Important Topics

Let me ask you this — how many animated movies are about the apocalypse?

I had to look it up. Apparently there’s only one other one about the apocalypse — a PG-13 animated movie called “9” with voice acting provided by Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, and Jennifer Connelly.

The thing is, that movie came out in 2009, whereas WALL-E came out in 2008 and was actually first…

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Tom Kuegler

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