I know everyone is still talking about the Dark Knight, but like the Editor in Chief of Variety - I keep thinking about Wall-E. I saw the film again this weekend (and have only seen the Dark Knight once) and was even more amazed. And even though (as you’ll see below) Wall-E seems to be more for adults than children, both times I saw the movie, the children in the audience were captivated. I don’t know whether they got the message, but they seemed to get something - and they kept quiet - which is no small feat.

But back to the film’s adult audience, Peter Bart (EIC Variety) makes a good point:

The success of WALL-E in fact reminds me of the theory about animation enunciated by Matt Groening, who created a little show called The Simpsons.

“Good animation is written for adults, not for children,” Groening stated in the summer issue of Written By, the magazine of the Writers Guild. The secret of our success is that the show was written for a smart audience.

Now if only more films were created with thoughts of making them for a smart audience…

Go after the jump for some clips of “The Bright Knight” as Bart calls him

Before you watch, be sure to takepart and help recycle your old batteries and cell phones, so Wall-E won’t have to clean then up

Read on:

• Meet the Real-Life Wall-E
• “Wall-E” Pushes The Right Buttons
• UK scientists bring WALL-E-like robots a step closer to reality

*photo by silkegb