WALL·E
The year is 2800. After hundreds of lonely years doing what he was built for, WALL-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE.
EVE comes to realise that WALL-E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans (who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home). Meanwhile, WALL-E chases EVE across the galaxy.
WALL-E is voiced by Ben Burtt, the man who gave R2D2 his distinctive sound.
- Director:
- Andrew Stanton ('Finding Nemo', 'A Bug's Life')
- Writer:
- Andrew Stanton
- Cast:
- Fred WillardJeff GarlinBen BurttSigourney Weaver
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Andrew Hedley
flicksPixar Animation's latest film opens on a desolate Earth, 700 years after mankind has vacated for greener pastures. WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) is a small robot left behind to clean up. He needn't bother, really. He's the only sentient being on the planet - aside from his little cockroach friend - and Earth, with its towering trash skyscrapers and a murky yellow atmosphere, is pretty much a write-off.
The best by far
What an absoulete Gem of a movie that for the first part of the film there is no speaking at all the story is told by music and the wonderful animation and is the story of a robot all alone apart from his friend or pet the coakroach is looking for love and in doing so helps bring mankind back to planet earth
Another cinematic step-up for animated films
Wall-E is beautiful to watch, and has an absorbing feel to it that few animated films have pulled off before. It only takes a little while to get over the Luddite doomsayer plot, but once you forget about the effect the film will have on indoctrinating youngsters into a lifetime of envirundamentalism, you can sit back and appreciate great jokes, magical...
Wait and see it in the cinema
I stand by my earlier comment - to release Wall-E in September is one of the worst marketing decisions ever made. Whoever came up with that idea should be put up against a wall and.... HOWEVER! I was lucky enough to see Wall-E last night and it was FABULOUS! Wait to see it in the cinema. Even if you download it now go and see it in September....
The New York Times
pressThe first 40 minutes or so of Wall-E -- in which barely any dialogue is spoken, and almost no human figures appear on screen -- is a cinematic poem of such wit and beauty that its darker implications may take a while to sink in.
The Guardian
pressWhat a rich, strange and intriguing picture this is; a wintry Cassandra in the guise of a pearl-bright summer blockbuster.
San Francisco Chronicle
pressIn the moment, it's intermittently transcendent, heartrending and beautiful ... and busy, repetitious and boring.
Premiere Magazine
pressWhen it works, it really works, but it's debatable whether its target audience will really enjoy anything more than the nifty robots. Which is fine, too. Robots are pretty cool.
New Zealand Herald
pressUnlikely as it might seem, the story of two star-crossed robots delivers a cartoon classic.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThe visual design of Wall-E is arguably Pixar's best. Stanton, who wrote the script with Jim Reardon from a story he concocted with Peter Docter, creates two fantastically imaginative, breathtakingly lit worlds.
Empire Magazine
pressTo call WALL•E Pixar's best film would potentially denigrate films that deserve no scorn. But this is their most ambitious undertaking since "Toy Story" and storytelling of such charm and visual wit that it can stand proudly alongside the studio’s best. Absolute heaven.
Flicks, Andrew Hedley
flicksPixar Animation's latest film opens on a desolate Earth, 700 years after mankind has vacated for greener pastures. WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) is a small robot left behind to clean up. He needn't bother, really. He's the only sentient being on the planet - aside from his little cockroach friend - and Earth, with its towering trash skyscrapers and a murky yellow atmosphere, is pretty much a write-off.
The New York Times
pressThe first 40 minutes or so of Wall-E -- in which barely any dialogue is spoken, and almost no human figures appear on screen -- is a cinematic poem of such wit and beauty that its darker implications may take a while to sink in.
The Guardian
pressWhat a rich, strange and intriguing picture this is; a wintry Cassandra in the guise of a pearl-bright summer blockbuster.
San Francisco Chronicle
pressIn the moment, it's intermittently transcendent, heartrending and beautiful ... and busy, repetitious and boring.
Premiere Magazine
pressWhen it works, it really works, but it's debatable whether its target audience will really enjoy anything more than the nifty robots. Which is fine, too. Robots are pretty cool.
New Zealand Herald
pressUnlikely as it might seem, the story of two star-crossed robots delivers a cartoon classic.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThe visual design of Wall-E is arguably Pixar's best. Stanton, who wrote the script with Jim Reardon from a story he concocted with Peter Docter, creates two fantastically imaginative, breathtakingly lit worlds.
Empire Magazine
pressTo call WALL•E Pixar's best film would potentially denigrate films that deserve no scorn. But this is their most ambitious undertaking since "Toy Story" and storytelling of such charm and visual wit that it can stand proudly alongside the studio’s best. Absolute heaven.
The best by far
What an absoulete Gem of a movie that for the first part of the film there is no speaking at all the story is told by music and the wonderful animation and is the story of a robot all alone apart from his friend or pet the coakroach is looking for love and in doing so helps bring mankind back to planet earth
Another cinematic step-up for animated films
Wall-E is beautiful to watch, and has an absorbing feel to it that few animated films have pulled off before. It only takes a little while to get over the Luddite doomsayer plot, but once you forget about the effect the film will have on indoctrinating youngsters into a lifetime of envirundamentalism, you can sit back and appreciate great jokes, magical...
Wait and see it in the cinema
I stand by my earlier comment - to release Wall-E in September is one of the worst marketing decisions ever made. Whoever came up with that idea should be put up against a wall and.... HOWEVER! I was lucky enough to see Wall-E last night and it was FABULOUS! Wait to see it in the cinema. Even if you download it now go and see it in September....
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