WALL·E (2008) movie poster

WALL·E (2008)

"After 700 years of doing what he was built for, he'll discover what he was meant for."
ThumbScore
👍 91%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 95%
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Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
G
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
8.1/10 (20,007 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
95%
Metacritic
95

Cast

Ben Burtt as WALL·E / M-O (voice)
Elissa Knight as EVE (voice)
Jeff Garlin as Captain (voice) · 72% avg
Fred Willard as Shelby Forthright, BnL CEO · 70% avg
John Ratzenberger as John (voice) · 77% avg
Kathy Najimy as Mary (voice) · 75% avg
Sigourney Weaver as Ship's Computer (voice) · 74% avg
Lori Alan as Additional Voices (voice)

Is WALL·E good?

Yes. 91% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 95%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#37 / 661 · Animation
Rank in its year
#5 / 208 · 2008
Rank among its director's films
#1 / 5 · Andrew Stanton

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

WALL-E is a 2008 American animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Andrew Stanton. Set in the year 2805, the film follows WALL-E, a small waste-compacting robot who has been left alone on an abandoned, garbage-covered Earth for 700 years after humanity evacuated the planet aboard luxury starliners operated by the megacorporation Buy-N-Large. WALL-E's solitary existence is transformed when he encounters EVE, a sleek, advanced probe robot sent to Earth to search for signs of sustainable plant life.

His devotion to EVE leads him on a journey across the galaxy to a massive starliner where humanity has devolved into obese, sedentary consumers entirely dependent on automated systems. WALL-E's first act, in which the robot navigates the abandoned cityscape alone with virtually no dialogue, is considered one of the most remarkable sequences in animation history — a 40-minute stretch of essentially silent filmmaking in a major studio release that drew comparisons to the work of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. The film's environmental message and satire of consumerism were unusually pointed for a family film produced by a Disney-owned studio, though they were delivered through such charming, emotionally engaging storytelling that they never felt preachy.

Thomas Newman's score and the use of the musical Hello, Dolly! as WALL-E's cultural touchstone gave the film a romantic warmth. WALL-E earned $521 million worldwide and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The film is frequently cited as Pixar's masterpiece and one of the greatest animated films ever made, praised for its ambition, visual storytelling, and ability to create a deeply moving love story between two robots who barely speak.

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