![]() McCrea is used to sitting back while his robotic AI autopilot helm, nicknamed AUTO, pilots the ship. In the centuries since the Axiom left Earth, its passengers have degenerated into helpless obesity due to microgravity and laziness, with robots catering to their every whim. The probe ship then returns to its mothership, the starliner Axiom. The probe ship eventually returns and collects EVE and the plant, with WALL♾ clinging on. WALL♾ is smitten by the sleek, otherworldly robot, and the two begin to connect, until EVE goes into standby mode when WALL♾ shows her his most recent find: a living seedling. One day, WALL♾'s routine of compressing trash and collecting interesting objects is broken by the arrival of an unmanned probe carrying an egg-shaped robot named Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator (EVE) which is sent to scan the planet for signs of sustainable life. WALL♾ remains active by salvaging parts from other inactive robots and lives with his pet cockroach as his only companion in a large truck designed to carry the robots. The cleanup has failed and the last remaining active robot, named Waste Allocation Load Lifter: Earth Class (WALL♾) has developed a personality. Humanity is nowhere to be seen, having been evacuated by the megacorporation Buy n Large (BnL) to space on giant starliners, leaving trash compacting robots to clean up the planet, seven hundred years prior. In the 29th century, Earth is a garbage-strewn wasteland due to an ecocide, caused by rampant consumerism, corporate greed, and environmental neglect. In September 2022, at the request of Stanton, Disney licensed WALL-E to The Criterion Collection, who re-released the film as a special edition 4K Blu-Ray-standard Blu-Ray combo pack on November 22, 2022, marking the first Pixar film to ever receive such an honor. In 2021, WALL-E became the second Pixar feature film (after Toy Story) to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film was widely named by critics and organizations, including the National Board of Review and American Film Institute, as one of the best films of 2008, and to be considered among the greatest animated films ever made. It won the 2008 Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Long Form Dramatic Presentation, the final Nebula Award for Best Script, the Saturn Award for Best Animated Film and the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature with five additional Oscar nominations. It was also commercially successful, grossing $521.3 million worldwide and becoming the ninth-highest grossing film of 2008. The film received critical acclaim for its animation, story, voice acting, characters, visuals, score, sound design, screenplay, use of minimal dialogue, and scenes of romance. WALL-E was released in the United States on June 27, 2008. Following Pixar tradition, WALL-E was paired with a short film titled Presto for its theatrical release. The film cost $180 million to produce, a record-breaking sum for an animated film at the time. Thomas Newman composed the film's musical score. It is also Pixar's first animated film with segments featuring live-action characters. The film incorporates various topics including consumerism, corporatocracy, nostalgia, waste management, human environmental impact and concerns, obesity/ sedentary lifestyles, and global catastrophic risk. WALL-E has minimal dialogue in its early sequences many of the characters in the film do not have voices, but instead communicate with body language and robotic sounds that were designed by Burtt. He is visited by a robot called EVE sent from the starship Axiom, with whom he falls in love and pursues across the galaxy.Īfter directing Finding Nemo, Stanton felt Pixar had created believable simulations of underwater physics and was willing to direct a film set largely in space. ![]() The film follows a solitary robot named WALL-E on a future, uninhabitable, deserted Earth in 2805, left to clean up garbage. It stars the voices of Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, with Sigourney Weaver and Fred Willard. The film was directed by Andrew Stanton, produced by Jim Morris, and written by Stanton and Jim Reardon. WALL-E (stylized with an interpunct as WALL♾) is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction romance film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
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