WALL·E
Short description
WALL·E is set on an Earth abandoned by humanity and buried under the waste it left behind. For centuries a solitary trash-compacting robot has kept sorting and stacking the rubbish he was built to handle, long after the last people departed. His routine ends when a sleek probe robot named EVE arrives from space to search for signs that the planet can support life again. The small, curious machine becomes attached to her, and when she leaves to report back to the human fleet, he follows her across the galaxy – a pursuit that puts the future of the planet in motion.
Andrew Stanton directed and co-wrote the film with Jim Reardon, and Jim Morris and Lindsey Collins produced it for Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures. It followed Stanton's Finding Nemo and came before John Carter, Finding Dory and two 2026 releases. Ben Burtt voices the title character and also M-O, with Elissa Knight as EVE, Jeff Garlin as the Captain, Fred Willard as the BnL chief executive and John Ratzenberger and Kathy Najimy among the thirty credited cast.
Released in June 2008, the film runs 98 minutes and cost about 180 million dollars, returning roughly 521 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 8.4 from about 1.3 million votes, and on TMDB 8.1 from around 20,892 votes, while a critics' rating of 8.9 from 258 reviews places it slightly above both audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The name "WALL-E" is an acronym, and in the Russian version it stands for “Universal Annihilator Landscape Light – Intelligent.” The robot’s original full name is “Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Earth class,” which can be roughly translated as “earth-class waste loader.”
- The teaser contains a piece of original music by Michael Kamen for the film “Brazil” (1985). Michael Kamen was going to write music for “The Incredibles” (2004), but died before filming began.
- The idea to create an animated film about the WALL·E robot originated at Pixar Studios back in 1994. It took 14 years from the idea to the film's premiere.
- Jonathan Ive, the designer who gave the world the iPod, iMac, and iPhone, was involved in developing Eve.
- The film has another slogan: “He’s been doing his job for 700 years. Now he’s about to discover his true purpose.”
- WALL·E has an entire collection of Zippo lighters, some of them even work – 700 years after they were manufactured! This is obviously a reference to the well-known quality of Zippo products.
- In the World of Warcraft game, there is a robot mailman named M.Y.L.L.E. specifically for engineers.
- WALL·E collects numerous items from the 60s-80s, including a VHS tape of the film “Hello, Dolly!” (1969), a Rubik's Cube, and even an Atari 2600 with the Pong game. Despite the fact that the film takes place 800 years in the future, these items are still in working order.
- Most of the robots are voiced by Ben Burtt using mechanical sounds he created himself.
- The end credits contain not only paintings in the style of many ancient cultures, but also imitate specific performers, such as Vincent van Gogh, Georges-Pierre Seurat, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
- This is the first Pixar film to use real actors.
- The protocol to which the autopilot (AUTO) is programmed, A113, is a reference to an animation class at the California Institute of the Arts, where many Pixar animators were educated.
- After charging the solar batteries, WALL·E makes a sound, the same sound that Apple computers make when booting up.
- The scene where the captain fights the onboard computer to the music of Strauss is a reference to the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968).
- Jim Reardon left his post as director of the series “The Simpsons” (1989) to do animation for this film.
- A model for the hands of the cleaning robots was found in the handles of the toilet stalls at the Pixar studio.
- Many note the similarity between the robot characters WALL-E and Johnny 5 from the film “Short Circuit” (1986), even extending to the film poster design.
- The film is dedicated to Justin Wright, a 27-year-old Pixar animator who died of a heart attack.
- The last piece of trash that WALL-E throws away as he leaves Earth is the first artificial satellite of Earth, launched by the USSR.
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