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In a distant, but not so unrealistic future, where mankind has abandoned earth because it has become covered with trash from products sold by the powerful multi-national Buy N Large corporation, WALL-E, a garbage collecting robot has been left to clean up the mess. Mesmerized with trinkets of Earth's history and show tunes, WALL-E is alone on Earth except for a sprightly pet cockroach. One day, Eve, a sleek (and dangerous) reconnaissance robot, is sent to Earth to find proof that life is once again sustainable. WALL-E falls in love with Eve. WALL-E rescues Eve from a dust storm and shows her a living plant he found amongst the rubble. Consistent with her "directive" Eve takes the plant and automatically enters a deactivated state except for a blinking green beacon. WALL-E, doesn't understand what has happened to his new friend, but true to his love, he protects her from wind, rain, and lightning, even as she is unresponsive. One day a massive ship comes to reclaim Eve, but WALL-E, out of love or loneliness hitches a ride on the outside of the ship to rescue Eve. The ship arrives back at a large space cruise ship, which is carrying all of the humans who evacuated Earth 700 years earlier. The people of Earth ride around this space resort on hovering chairs which give them a constant feed of TV and video chatting. They drink all of their meals through a straw out of laziness and/or bone loss, and are all so fat that they can barely move. When the auto-pilot computer, acting on hastily given instructions sent many centuries before, tries to prevent the people of Earth from returning, by stealing the plant, WALL-E, Eve, the portly captain, and a band of broken robots stage a mutiny.
Genre(s): Animation, Adventure, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Runtime: 98 minutes
Rating: 8.6/10 (145,012 votes)
Release Date: 23 June 2008
Country: USA
Languages: English
Company: Pixar Animation Studios
Sound: DTS-ES, SDDS, Dolby Digital EX
Director(s): Andrew Stanton
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Producer(s):
Lindsey Collins - co-producer
John Lasseter - executive producer
Gillian Libbert - line producer
Jim Morris - producer
Thomas Porter - associate producer
Writer(s):
Andrew Stanton - (original story) &
Pete Docter - (original story)
Andrew Stanton - (screenplay) &
Jim Reardon - (screenplay)
Cast:
Ben Burtt - WALL·E / M-O (voice)
Elissa Knight - EVE (voice)
Jeff Garlin - Captain McCrea (voice)
Fred Willard - Shelby Forthright - BnL CEO
MacInTalk - AUTO (voice)
John Ratzenberger - John (voice)
Kathy Najimy - Mary (voice)
Sigourney Weaver - Ship's Computer (voice)
Kim Kopf - Hoverchair Mother (voice)
Garrett Palmer - Blond Boy in BnL Commercial (voice) (uncredited)
Music: Thomas Newman
Lindsey Collins - co-producer
John Lasseter - executive producer
Gillian Libbert - line producer
Jim Morris - producer
Thomas Porter - associate producer
Writer(s):
Andrew Stanton - (original story) &
Pete Docter - (original story)
Andrew Stanton - (screenplay) &
Jim Reardon - (screenplay)
Cast:
Ben Burtt - WALL·E / M-O (voice)
Elissa Knight - EVE (voice)
Jeff Garlin - Captain McCrea (voice)
Fred Willard - Shelby Forthright - BnL CEO
MacInTalk - AUTO (voice)
John Ratzenberger - John (voice)
Kathy Najimy - Mary (voice)
Sigourney Weaver - Ship's Computer (voice)
Kim Kopf - Hoverchair Mother (voice)
Garrett Palmer - Blond Boy in BnL Commercial (voice) (uncredited)
Music: Thomas Newman
July 11th, 2009
In many ways this is a pretty typical piece of Disney/Pixar animation -except in this, instead of cute, adorable animals we have cute,adorable robots. Set about 700 years in the future, the story begins onan earth that is now uninhabitable because of the mounds of garbagethat have accumulated. Humans are extinct (on earth at least) and thestar of the movie is a little robot called WALL-E, programmedapparently to collect, sort and dispose of garbage. He continues hisjob long after the humans have disappeared, his only companion being acockroach (they really can survive anything) – and WALL-E is lonely.Suddenly an alien robot named Eva drops in from space, and WALL-E fallshead over heels, eventually accompanying her (somewhat against hiswill) to her spaceship. Once aboard the spaceship I thought the moviestarted to take on a bit of a "Battlestar Galactica" feel, as thedescendants of the humans who had escaped earth find themselvesstruggling for control of the ship against a group of rogue robots.
A lot here was very good. The animation was brilliant. WALL-Eespecially seemed almost real rather than animated. The relationshipbetween WALL-E and Eva was developed nicely, and I felt a great deal ofempathy for WALL-E as he battled his loneliness. The writers alsomanaged the difficult task of telling us a story with very littledialogue (neither WALL-E nor Eva talk, except to stammer out eachother's name.) There's a rather obvious political message in this,warning us about the environmental damage we're causing to the planet.On the down side, the story was rather predictable, and I'm not toosure that this movie would get a great reception among children, sincethe lack of dialogue and somewhat complex storyline might make itdifficult especially for younger ones to follow. As its ratingsuggests, this animated feature might have more impact on adults thanon children.
On balance, I liked it, although I'm not inclined to add it to acollection so I could watch it over and over. 6/10
July 31st, 2009
A G-rated synthesis of A.I., Idiocracy, 2001, and Chaplin's ModernTimes, WALL-E tells the tale of a robot left behind to clean up Earthwhile the human race bides its time in space, waiting for machines tofix the mess they've left behind. But this being Pixar, the deeperissues are handled just as expertly as the conventional storyline,which in this case is a simple love story between two robots.
A first-time viewer could be forgiven for not grasping the consistentvision of WALL-E's subtext on a first viewing, primarily because thelook of the film is so detailed and accomplished that you can beawestruck just admiring the visual, and aural, craftsmanship. Hiringace cinematographer Roger Deakins as a "consultant" paid off like awinning lottery ticket. The opening passages of the film — on an Earthpopulated by nothing but a robot, a cockroach, and lots of garbage –have a realism that trumps everything Pixar has done to this point.Oftentimes you forget you're watching an animated movie because of thefluid, realistic camera work. Director Andrew Stanton succeeds grandlynot because he's showing off with these nearly dialogue-free sequences,but because he understands how viewers respond to particular lenses andcamera maneuvers. He's applying film theory in order to build up anaudience's sympathies for his main character, and he does somasterfully. Don't let the phrase "dialogue-free" throw you — this isfar from a silent movie. The flawless and varied sound design — whoknew a robot's voice could have so many different inflections whensaying the same few words — is as much a treat for the ears as thevisuals are for the eyes.
Like Stanton's previous film, Finding Nemo, WALL-E manages to work atthe level of fable by communicating grand themes through the actions ofsympathetic characters. This film works as a simple adventure story,and as a love story, but it also works as a rather brilliant comment onthe inherent dangers of mass commercialism and the ramifications ofhumans becoming slothful and lazy because of technology. In this movie,the people of the future look like enormous, babyish blobs — a deviceStanton exploits to great comedic and thematic effect. The entireproduction has been so brilliantly conceived and executed that it feelsas much like an extended Pixar short as it does a feature. Unlike itshumans of the future, the movie itself doesn't have an ounce of fat onit. The men and women at Pixar are master jewelers, cutting andpolishing their wares to perfection before the world gets to enjoythem. WALL-E is another gem.