We'll see the shows at Delmonico's and we'll close the town in a whirl ...

Today while I was at work I read that there would be a sneak preview of Wall-E at the Paradiso, and if you put your name in on the local TV News contest page you had a chance of winning some tickets. The contest had, alas, expired, but since the theater is on the way home, I thought I'd stop by and see if someone had a spare (normally they give out lots of those suckers, and there are tons more tickets handed out than people showing up to see the movie).

I was in luck.

( Now is the time when those of you who don't want to hear anything at all about the movie should turn your backs. I'm not going to elaborate on plot points, but if you want to hit it with a completely blank slate, consider yourself warned. )

In short: Presto reaches the pinnacle of Pixar shorts, Wall-E reaches for it, but doesn't quite make the standard of The Incredibles or Ratatouille, which is to say it's better than anything else you might want to see at a movie theatre this weekend by far.