About Wall E
Movie description
Great show in this ever.Even for Pixar, this might be a first: an animated film that contains not only a fully realized world as photorealistic as it is teeming with wonder, but also the Gargantuan themes and visuals of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, the kind of stripped-down sad-clown pathos reserved for classic Buster Keaton comedies, and one of the most moving love stories in a long time. Director Andrew Stanton kicked up the visual acuity of an already-stellar Pixar Studios in 2003 with his reflective, refractive, color-shimmery realization of FINDING NEMOs oceanic world, which genuinely felt as though it spanned the entire earth. Now, with WALL-E, Stanton replaces an estranged journeyer of an apprehensively fishy disposition with a curious and love-struck robotic one, allowing the quest for eternal love to extend from a desolate, dust-covered, palpably polluted future Earth and into an even more mysterious abyss: the far reaches of outer space. With virtually no dialogue, WALL-Es neatly contained, eerily vaudevillian first act introduces the tragic robot of the title. Whirring amid dilapidated skyscrapers and equally tall compacted trash heaps, hes the last living thing on Earth (aside from a little cockroach friend). WALL-E has developed a tender and inquisitive personality doing what he was built to do--allocate and dispose of human waste--day in and day out for the past 700 years simply because no one turned him off when the human race left the now-hostile planet. Soon though, the directive-oriented automaton Eve comes crashing into WALL-Es life from above, immediately becoming the object of his infatuation. At the drop of a hat, the little guy follows her back into the dangerous unknown, where the sight of two robots gliding through the cosmic ether, dancing via fire-extinguisher propulsion, joins the many memorable moments of a deceptively simple, expansively romantic story.
Credits
Producer: Jim Morris
Editorial reviews
4 stars out of 4 -- "[E]ngaging and visually stunning....WALL-E is inventive, poignant and funny in its tale of a spunky robot whose name stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth Class."
USA Today - Claudia Puig (06/27/2008)
"Pixars latest is wonderful and full of wonder....Daring and traditional, groundbreaking and familiar, apocalyptic and sentimental, WALL-E gains strengths from embracing contradictions..."
Los Angeles Times - Kenneth Turan (06/27/2008)
"WALL-E surely breaks new ground....It is also a disarmingly sweet and simple love story, Chaplinesque in its emotional purity."
New York Times - A. O. Scott (06/27/2008)
"[P]uckishly inventive, altogether marvelous....It whisks you to a new world, then makes that world every inch our own." -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly - Owen Gleiberman (07/11/2008)
"[E]xceptionally good. In fact its one of Pixars best films....The films joy, though, is the way WALL-Es situation develops in an organic, lyrical, musical way."
Sight and Sound - Andrew Osmond (08/01/2008)
5 stars out of 5 -- "WALL-E is a character of genius, as wondrous an example of the potential of animation as you will ever see."
Empire - Olly Richards (08/01/2008)
4 stars out of 4 -- "Animation art at its highest level....You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that youve just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic."
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers (08/07/2008)
"Just watching WALL-E putter around earth by himself, crushing trash into neat cubes and listening to his homemade tape of the HELLO, DOLLY! soundtrack is mesmerizing."
Premiere - Jenni Miller (06/26/2008)
"The best science-fiction movie in years....Hugely entertaining, wonderfully well drawn..."
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (12/05/2008)
Ranked #5 in Rolling Stones Movies Of The Year -- "Director Andrew Stanton and his crew have created a visionary masterpiece."
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers (01/08/2008)
Included in Entertainment Weeklys 2008 Films Of The Year -- "Years from now -- yea, unto eternity -- all who love movies will rank WALL-E among the mediums most profound, subtle, sophisticated, and gorgeously inventive specimens, ever."
Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum (12/26/2008)
Awards
2009 Academy Awards, Best Animated Feature Film
