WALL·E
I can just imagine the pitch to the high ups at Disney when Pixar decided to do WALL·E: "Yes, we'd like to do a movie that is really more for adults than kids...all about the utter destruction of the Earth...and, uh, we are going to have about 4 words in the whole film...yeah, it'll be mostly a silent film...and speaking of silent film, it is going to be highly influenced by the early movies of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton...oh, and one more thing, Wall E's favorite thing in the world is gong to be the 1969 movie Hello Dolly, I'm sure kid's will relate to that."
Despite what must have seen like a crazy premise for a family movie, there was no way Disney would have said NO to anything that Pixar suggested. WALL·E was made at the height of Pixar's unprecedented streak of hits, and huge money making films.
For me, WALL·E is Pixar's masterwork. A remarkable film is a sea of outstanding films. It is a level above. It is Art. Philosophy. And Deeply Meaningful. It's a film for everyone--adults, kids, intellectuals, and those who just want to be entertained. It has everything. A great story by Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter (who deserve more overall recognition for their scripts). It has great music from Thomas Newman (again, underrecognized). And the animation is Pixar at its best--and that is really saying something. The animation in every Pixar film is outstanding, I think this is the best.