WALL-E ("Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Earth-Class"), promoted with an interpunct as WALL•E) is a 2008 computer animated-adventure-comedy-science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 27, 2008.

The film follows the romance between two robots in the future. The film is directed by Andrew Stanton, whose previous film, Finding Nemo, won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Most of the characters do not have human voices, but communicate with sounds (designed by Ben Burtt) which resemble voices. (Wikipedia.org)

What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? Wall-E, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will discover what he was meant for, as he adventures across the galaxy chasing his dream.

Also Known As:  Wall E,  Walle
Production Status:  In Production/Awaiting Release
Logline:  A young robot looks for a home in outer space.
Running Time:  1 hr. 37 min.
Release Date:  June 27th, 2008 (wide)
MPAA Rating:  G
Distributors:   Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Production Co.: Pixar Animation Studios
Studios:  Walt Disney Feature Animation
Filming Locations:  
Los Angeles, California, USA
Produced in:  United States

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The film premiered at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, California on June 23, 2008. The film was released to the public on June 27, 2008.

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Plot

The movie begins on Earth, in the year 2815, completely devoid of life, WALL-E (Ben Burtt), a trash-compacting robot, and his cockroach companion. WALL-E's directive is to convert the billions of tons of garbage that cover the Earth's surface into a disposable form (trash compacted into cubes and stacked into tower-like constructs), and thus allow life to prosper once more. The Buy 'n Large corporation, a massive conglomerate controlling the entirety of Earth's former consumerist lifestyle, sponsored a massive exodus from the Earth onto a fleet of space station resorts, one of them the Axiom, while hundreds of thousands of WALL-E units would make the earth habitable once more.

The program has failed, though, and all WALL-E units save the main character (who was apparently missed) have been deactivated[4]. WALL-E uses parts from the other units to repair himself. He is something of a packrat, and his "home" station houses, in addition to stored spare parts, knick-knacks such as a Rubik's Cube, an MP3 player, and a light bulb. He uses a lunchbox-sized picnic cooler hung off a retracting hook on his back as a backpack, tossing in whatever interesting tidbits he finds while at work. In addition, he has a treasured VHS video cassette copy of Hello Dolly, which gives him special notions of emotional contact.

While charging his solar cells, the robot sees a strange light and pursues it only to learn that it's part of a tracking light pattern of a spaceship that almost lands on top of him. WALL•E discovers a newer model of robot, named EVE, which is an acronym for Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator, (Elissa Knight), being deployed and inexplicably scanning the Earth for something while firing at anything moving with an arm-mounted laser cannon. EVE eventually warms up to WALL-E with the help of the cockroach. He takes her to his home where he shows her his prized possession: A small plant he had recently found and planted in an old boot he'd collected.

Following her programming to the letter, EVE immediately scans it, grabs the plant from WALL-E, inserts it inside her, and auto-deactivates herself. WALL-E goes to great lengths to protect her deactivated body, including electrocuting himself several times to protect EVE in a storm. EVE is picked up by the spaceship that dropped her off. WALL-E stows away and eventually finds himself on the Axiom.

Humanity has, thanks to 700 years of liquid food, hi-tech wheelchairs (lounger-like hoverchairs), low gravity levels, and all labor done by robots, become incredibly lazy and morbidly obese. Even the Axiom's captain has delegated all duties to the autopilot, AUTO (MacInTalk), save morning announcements. EVE's body is presented to the captain (Jeff Garlin) and AUTO, while WALL-E watches from a mostly-hidden location. EVE is reactivated, and while the captain is not looking, AUTO's assistant (named GO-4) removes the plant. The captain is disappointed by the apparent false alarm, and orders EVE be put through a system diagnostic.

WALL-E is discovered, blamed by EVE for the plant's loss, and ordered to be cleaned. The two are taken to a robot repair facility, which WALL-E breaks them out of on the assumption that EVE is being tortured and disassembled. The genuinely malfunctioning robots (including a vacuum named VAQ-M, a robotic beautician named PR-T, an umbrella named BRL-A, a light named L-T, and a massaging machine named HAN-S) are also released. They immediately celebrate WALL-E as their liberator.

EVE takes WALL-E to an escape pod with the intention of sending him back to Earth. There they discover AUTO's assistant about to destroy the plant by launching it into space in a pod programmed to self destruct. WALL-E attempts to get the plant back, and in the process is trapped inside the pod as it is launched. EVE goes after WALL-E, who escapes from the pod just in time, and the two dance through space (thanks to EVE's built-in propulsion system and WALL-E's fire extinguisher), while the curious captain learns about Earth from the ship's computers.

Upon AUTO's realization that the plant has been recovered, WALL-E and EVE are labeled "dangerous rogue robots", to the dismay of a human couple WALL-E had helped earlier (and assisted in discovering they were, in fact, capable of leaving their chairs). EVE splits ways with WALL-E and presents the plant to the captain. AUTO attempts once more to dispose of the plant despite the captain's protests, and is eventually forced to reveal the reason for his mutiny.

Buy 'n Large's recovery plan has failed miserably. Shortly after leaving the Earth, Earth was declared too toxic to ever support life, and the Autopilot of all human craft were ordered to take control of the ship and prevent it from returning to Earth. The plant EVE brought back proves that Buy 'n Large was wrong, but AUTO refuses to hear it and disposes of it in the garbage chute, which WALL-E was conveniently climbing at the time to rejoin EVE. AUTO promptly locks the Captain in his bedroom, electrocutes WALL-E, drains his batteries, and sends both the plant and the meddling robots to the trash airlock. WALL-E is close to full system shutdown.

EVE awakens to find herself in the Axiom's trash disposal facility, run by industrial-sized versions of the WALL-E units (called WALL-A units, an acronym for Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Axiom-Class). Being compacted on the outside of one cube, she spots WALL-E in the cube next to her. EVE blasts herself free and retrieves WALL-E just before their cubes are jettisoned out the trash airlock with the help of an obsessive-compulsive cleaning character named M-O, who had been trailing after WALL-E due to his foreign contamination.

Having re-entered the habital section of the ship, the captain is able to send an emergency message to WALL-E and EVE, telling them where the plant needs to be sent to begin the Axiom's return to Earth. AUTO catches him and attempts to kill the captain, but is thwarted by his newfound ability to stand up (and thus reach AUTO's 'Manual' switch). With the help of other rogue robots and the once-more bipedal humans, the plant is inserted into the Axiom's systems, and the remaining human population returns to Earth as WALL-E finally deactivates from sustaining even more critical damage. EVE rushes WALL-E to his home, repairs the structural damage and replaces the damaged parts. He recharges and then reactivates, but his memory has been erased. He begins converting his prized collection into trash, until EVE "kisses" him, which returns his memory.

The human race and the now cooperative robots begin rebuilding the Earth and restoring its environment together. During the credits, a journey through art history reveals how humanity has re-evolved (from cave paintings to more modern 8-bit graphics) relatively quickly with the help of the robots. The ending shot has Wall-E and EVE holding hands as they look high up at a tree, which reveals to be the plant in the boot that Wall-E took care of at the beginning of the movie. (wikipedia.org)

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