Pixar has made it nine great movies out of nine with ingenious WALL-E, which is simply out of this world!

After the critical acclaim of Ratatouille, Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton helps the team behind Toy Story, Cars and The Incredibles add more welcomed pressure to the Disney-owned studio by providing an audacious and endearing adventure for all ages.

Every year Pixar is left with the question: "How do we top that?" And somehow it always does.

WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) is Pixar's latest lovable creation, which – for those of us old enough to remember 1986 – is a bit like the robot Number Five from Short Circuit.

The film features the voices of Sigourney Weaver, John Ratzenberger, Fred Willard and Ben Burtt.

The first hour is a light-hearted, comedy laced treat – putting this right up there in Toy Story 1 and 2 territory – as you see the gentle Wall-E go about his daily business cleaning a desolate, uninhabitable toxic Earth as the last robot on the polluted planet.

A superior female robot called EVE (Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) drops in to scan the landscape for signs of life for the possible return of humanity and ends up befriending the battered and now lovestruck Wall-E.

When Eve is unceremoniously plucked from Earth, Wall-E is in hot pursuit.

With little dialogue and comedic moments more infrequent, the film does run out of power by the finale as it becomes padded to meet the running time. But so much good has come before it that it can be forgiven for a few minor lapses.

Everything Pixar touches turns to gold and this applies here with this heartwarming tale of cosmic proportions.