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WALL·E
After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E— a robot designed to clean up the earth—discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to report to the humans. Meanwhile, WALL•E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most imaginative adventures ever brought to the big screen.
2008 · Directed by Andrew Stanton · 98 min · Animation · Family · Science Fiction · Screenplay in the scene database · 43 frames
Tagline
After 700 years of doing what he was built for, he'll discover what he was meant for.
Plot
In the year 2805, Earth is an inhospitable, garbage-strewn wasteland due to an ecocide caused by rampant consumerism, corporate greed, and environmental neglect. Humanity was evacuated to space by the megacorporation Buy n Large on giant spaceships 700 years earlier, leaving trash-compacting "WALL-E" robots to clean up the planet, but the cleanup was eventually abandoned after the planet became far too toxic. All but one of the robots have stopped functioning; the last remaining active WALL-E has developed a personality and uses a truck designed to carry the WALL-E robots as a home. WALL-E remains active by salvaging parts from other inactive robots, with his pet cockroach Hal as his only companion.
One day, WALL-E's routine of compressing trash and collecting interesting objects is broken by the arrival of a sleek, futuristic robot called EVE, who scans the planet for sustainable life. WALL-E is smitten by her, and the two begin to connect until EVE goes into standby mode when WALL-E shows her his most recent find: a living seedling. WALL-E cares for EVE until she is collected by a large unmanned rocket; with WALL-E clinging on, it returns to its mothership, the starliner Axiom.
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. Captain B. McCrea sits back while his robotic AI autopilot helm, nicknamed AUTO, pilots the ship. McCrea is unprepared for the positive probe response, but discovers that placing the plant in the ship's Holo-Detector will trigger a hyperjump back to Earth so that humanity can begin recolonization. When McCrea inspects EVE's storage compartment, the plant is missing, and EVE blames WALL-E for its disappearance.
Plot summary from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Crew
- Screenplay: Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon
- Cinematography: Jeremy Lasky, Danielle Feinberg, Martin Rosenberg
- Edited by: Stephen Schaffer
- Music: Thomas Newman
- Production design: Ralph Eggleston
- Produced by: Lindsey Collins, Jim Morris
Cast
- Ben Burtt as WALL·E / M-O (voice)
- Elissa Knight as EVE (voice)
- Jeff Garlin as Captain (voice)
- Fred Willard as Shelby Forthright, BnL CEO
- John Ratzenberger as John (voice)
- Kathy Najimy as Mary (voice)
- Sigourney Weaver as Ship's Computer (voice)
- Lori Alan as Additional Voices (voice)
- Bob Bergen as Additional Voices (voice)
- John Cygan as Additional Voices (voice)
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Pixar
- Budget: $180,000,000
- Box office: $521,311,860
- Themes: garbage, dystopia, space travel, space, distant future, loneliness, robot, aftercreditsstinger, duringcreditsstinger, reflective
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