Certificate
U
Number of Discs
2
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States of America
Comedian
Thomas Newman
Reviews
New York Times - WALL-E surely breaks new ground [...] It is also a disarmingly sweet and simple love story, Chaplinesque in its emotional purity., Rolling Stone - 4 stars out of 4 - Animation art at its highest level [...] You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind, that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic., Sight and Sound - [E]xceptionally good. In fact it's one of Pixar's best films....The film's joy, though, is the way WALL-E's situation develops in an organic, lyrical, musical way., Empire - 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., Hollywood Reporter - This is getting to sound like a broken record: Pixar Animation Studios has just topped itself. Again, Time Magazine - It works; this is Pixar's most enthralling entertainment since [FINDING] NEMO, Los Angeles Times - Pixar's latest is wonderful and full of wonder [...] Daring and traditional, groundbreaking and familiar, apocalyptic and sentimental, WALL-E gains strengths from embracing contradictions, Variety - Pixar's ninth consecutive wonder of the animated world is a simple yet deeply imagined piece of speculative fiction...it has plenty to say, but does so in a light, insouciant manner that allows you to take the message or leave it on the table
Consumer Advice
Contains very mild threat and viole
Additional Information
Even for Pixar, this might be a first: an animated film that contains not only a fully realised world as photorealistic as it is full of wonder, but also the Gargantuan themes and visuals of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, the stripped-down sad-clown pathos found in classic Buster Keaton comedies, and one of the most moving and simply unique love stories in a long time. Director Andrew Stanton kicked up the visual acuity of an already-stellar Pixar Animation Studios in 2003 with a reflective, refractive, color-shimmery realisation of the oceanic world of FINDING NEMO, which genuinely felt as though it spanned the entire earth. With WALL-E, Stanton replaces an apprehensively fishy estranged journeyer with a love-struck and curious robotic one, allowing the quest for eternal love to expand 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-E's neatly contained vaudevillian first act eerily and tragically introduces the robot of the title as the last living thing on Earth (aside from a little cockroach friend) amidst dilapidated skyscrapers and equally tall compacted trash heaps. WALL-E has developed a tender and inquisitive personality doing what he was built to do day in and day out for the past 700 years--allocate and dispose of human waste--simply because no one turned him off when the human race left the hostile polluted planet. When the directive-oriented Eve robot comes crashing into his life from above, WALL-E immediately becomes infatuated with her, and is willing to follow her to back into dangerous outer space, where two robots gliding through the ether, dancing via fire-extinguisher propulsion, are among the many memorable and grandly romantic moments of an expansively beautiful, deceptively simple story.
Movie/TV Title
Wall-E
Sound source
Dolby Digital
Awards
Best Animated Feature Film 2009 -, Best Animated Film 2009 -
Screenwriter
Andrew Stanton
Voice
Kathy Najimy, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Sigourney Weaver
