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Wall-E
Director: Andrew Stanton
Release Date: July 18, 2008
Starring: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy
Language: English
Country: United States
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WALL-E (promoted with an interpunct as WALL·E) is a 2008 computer animated adventure comedy science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released to theaters by Walt Disney Pictures on June 27, 2008. WALL-E will be released onto DVD and Blu-ray on November 4, 2008. The film is directed by Andrew Stanton, who previously directed Finding Nemo. It follows a romance between two robots in the future. Most of the characters do not have human voices, instead communicating with body language and sounds (designed by Ben Burtt) that resemble voices. It is also the first animated feature by Pixar to have several segments featuring live action characters. The film has received almost universal praise from film critics.
In the early 2100s, the mega corporation Buy ‘n Large took over every service on Earth, including the government. Overrun by consumerism, the planet eventually became so heavily polluted that it could no longer support life. In an attempt to keep humanity alive, Buy ‘n Large sponsored an exodus to space aboard hundreds of massive “Executive Starliners”, the largest of which is the Axiom, which left Earth in the year 2115. Thousands of WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) units were left behind to clean up the planet. However, by 2815, only one WALL-E remains operational, scavenging parts from his inactive duplicates. The planet is still covered in trash, only arranged in neat piles. After 700 years of living in micro-gravity, the humans aboard the Axiom have lost considerable bone and muscle mass, rendering them obese and too weak to stand or move without robotic assistance. Every task is now automated, including piloting, which is handled by the autopilot AUTO (voiced by the program MacInTalk).
Seven hundred years of experience has caused WALL-E to develop a personality. He collects items that he finds among the refuse, including a videotape of the 1969 movie Hello, Dolly!. Throughout the film he repeatedly plays the tape, especially the performances of “Sunday Clothes” and “It Only Takes a Moment”. It teaches him emotion, particularly holding hands (which becomes a recurring theme). He also finds and saves a seedling plant, placing it in an old boot. During his work, he meets EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator, Elissa Knight), a robot from the Axiom sent to find plant life. He falls in love with her, but despite his best efforts her only concern is for her mission. When WALL-E shows her the plant he found, she stores the plant inside herself and deactivates. WALL-E goes to great lengths to protect her body until EVE is retrieved by the ship that delivered her. Distraught, WALL-E stows away on the outer hull.
Aboard the Axiom, WALL-E follows EVE to her destination. His peculiar behavior causes both humans and robots to act outside their normal routine. In particular, WALL-E causes an M-O model cleaning robot to leave its designated path to obsessively clean the filth he leaves in his wake, and inadvertantly awakens two humans, John and Mary, to the world around them.
EVE tries to present the plant to Captain B. McCrea (Jeff Garlin), but it is not inside her compartment when they check. AUTO reasons that EVE has malfunctioned, and sends her to the robot repair ward with WALL-E. Misunderstanding the purpose of the diagnostic machine, WALL-E takes EVE’s gun arm and accidentally frees all the malfunctioning robots. In her attempt to get the arm back, she and WALL-E are labeled as rogue robots. EVE tries to send WALL-E back to Earth in an escape pod, but he refuses to go. AUTO’s assistant, GO-4, arrives and reveals that he had the plant the whole time. He attempts to dispose of it in a escape pod set to self-destruct, but WALL-E saves it. EVE returns the plant to McCrea. Curious to see images of Earth, he projects EVE’s security camera footage, where she sees the lengths that WALL-E went to protect her. The captain is shocked by the environmental devastation on Earth depicted in the recordings and decides they must return to make amends.
When AUTO insists that they cannot return to Earth, he is forced to reveal the truth of the situation to McCrea. After leaving the Earth, Buy ‘n Large quickly concluded that the planet was too toxic to ever support life again and abandoned recolonization plans, ordering the autopilots to never return. Unable to act outside his programming, AUTO locks the captain in his quarters and tries to dispose of the plant. He severely damages WALL-E and deactivates EVE, throwing them and the plant into a garbage chute. EVE searches in vain for parts, even dismissing her mission to do so. WALL-E presents the plant, which will bring them back to Earth where he can be fixed. They recruit the malfunctioning robots and fight their way back to the main part of the ship. They are aided by the captain, who hotwires the operating systems. He tells WALL-E and EVE to put the plant on the holo-detector, a pedestal that rises from the floor on one of the passenger decks. The captain and AUTO have a brief battle, which causes the ship to turn on its side and pile the immobile humans in the corner. While EVE protects the humans, AUTO forces the holo-detector back into the floor. WALL-E uses his body to jam it open, which crushes him. McCrea stands up by himself (to the amazement of the passengers) and deactivates AUTO, restoring order aboard the ship. Once the plant is in the holo-detector, the ship’s hyperjump back to Earth is initiated. WALL-E’s crushed body runs out of charge and shuts down.
Once they arrive on Earth, EVE frantically repairs WALL-E. However, the extent of the repairs seem to have wiped his memory and personality: he begins to perform his programmed task, crushing his treasured knick-knacks into cubes. EVE, heartbroken over the loss of WALL-E, follows him as he heads off to perform his job. When he pauses, she takes hold of his hand and leans her head towards his. A static discharge (a “kiss”) jumps between the two. The spark reboots WALL-E’s memory and he suddenly recognizes her as they clasp hands. With a renewed sense of purpose, humanity and robots begin working together to restore Earth’s biosphere.
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