Product Description
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What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn
off the last robot? This is the premise behind Wall-E, the latest
comedy adventure from the inventive storytellers and technical
geniuses at Pixar Animation Studios (The Incredibles (
/gp/product/B00075H6CS ), Cars ( /gp/product/B000ENV5WK ),
Ratatouille ( /gp/product/B0010V4S2O )). The story, told by
Academy Award®-winning writer-director Andrew Stanton (Finding
Nemo ( /gp/product/B00007KGCW )), concerns a determined robot
named WALL-E, left behind to clean up the planet after the last
humans have left.
After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for,
WALL-E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) has
developed his very own personality. He discovers a new purpose in
life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he encounters--and
becomes enamoured with--a sleek search robot named EVE. WALL-E
and EVE travel across the galaxy and set into motion one of the
most exciting and imaginative comedy adventures ever brought to
the big screen. Joining WALL-E on his fantastic journey across a
universe of never-before-imagined visions of the future is a
hilarious cast of characters, including a pet cockroach and a
heroic team of malfunctioning misfit robots.
Filled with surprises, action, humour and heart, WALL-E also
features original and innovative sound design by Academy
Award®-winner Ben Burtt, the man responsible for the voice of
R2D2 in Star Wars ( /gp/product/B0001ZE1OU ) (as well as work on
E.T. ( /gp/product/B0009UCEV4 ) and Indiana Jones (
/gp/product/B00009ZWAB )).
.co.uk Review
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Pixar genius reigns in this funny romantic comedy, which stars a
robot who says absolutely nothing for a full 25 minutes yet
somehow completely transfixes and endears himself to the audience
within the first few minutes of the film. As the last robot left
on earth, Wall-E (voiced by Ben Burtt) is one small robot--with a
big, big heart--who holds the future of Earth and mankind
squarely in the palm of his metal hand. He's outlasted all the
"Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class" robots that were
assigned some 700 years ago to clean up the environmental mess
that man made of earth while man vacationed aboard the luxury
spaceship Axiom. Wall-E has dutifully gone about his job
compacting t, the extreme solitude broken only by his pet
cockroach, but he's developed some oddly human habits and ideas.
When the Axiom sends its regularly scheduled robotic EVE probe
(Elissa Knight) to earth, Wall-E is instantly smitten and
proceeds to try to impress EVE with his collection of human
memorabilia. EVE's directive compels her to bring Wall-E's newly
collected sprout to the captain of the Axiom and Wall-E
follows in hot pursuit. Suddenly, the human world is turned
upside down and the Captain (Jeff Garlin) joins forces with
Wall-E and a cast of other misfit robots to lead the now
lethargic people back home to earth. Wall-E is a great family
film with the most impressive aspect being the depth of emotion
conveyed by a simple robot--a machine typically considered devoid
of emotion, but made so absolutely touching by the magic of Pixar
animation. Also well-worth admiring are the sweeping views from
space, the creative yet disturbing vision of what strange
luxuries a future space vacation might offer, and the innovative
use of t in a future cityscape. Underneath the slapstick
comedy and touching love story is a poignant message about the
folly of human greed and its potential effects on earth and the
entire human race. --Tami Horiuchi, .com