WALL·E (2008)
WALL·E is a 2008 animation movie directed by Andrew Stanton, with a running time of 1h 38m. It stars Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight and Jeff Garlin.
Earth is a wasteland of stacked trash, and the last machine still working is WALL-E, a boxy little compactor who has grown a personality over centuries of solitude. He collects trinkets, rewatches an old musical, and keeps a pet cockroach. Then a sleek, egg-shaped probe named EVE lands on a mission, and WALL-E falls hard. Director Andrew Stanton tells the first act almost without dialogue, leaning on sound designer Ben Burtt's beeps and whirs. What follows is a chase across space and a gentle warning about consumption, wrapped in one of Pixar's most tender love stories.
Where to watch WALL·E
Stream: Disney+
Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home, Google Play
Buy: Fandango at Home, Google Play
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Cast
- Ben Burtt as WALL·E / M-O (voice)
- Elissa Knight as EVE (voice)
- Jeff Garlin as Captain (voice)
- Fred Willard as Shelby Forthright, BnL CEO
- John Ratzenberger as John (voice)
- Kathy Najimy as Mary (voice)
- Sigourney Weaver as Ship's Computer (voice)
- Lori Alan as Additional Voices (voice)
- Bob Bergen as Additional Voices (voice)
- John Cygan as Additional Voices (voice)
- Pete Docter as Additional Voices (voice)
- Paul Eiding as Additional Voices (voice)
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A few thoughts on WALL·E
WALL-E's wordless charm and lonely-robot heart carry straight into Portal and Portal 2, where machines with real personality anchor an empty, automated world. For more silent, purely visual emotion, play Journey, a game about companionship across a vast and beautiful landscape.
Lonely robots that find an unlikely companion
WALL-E spends centuries alone before EVE gives him a reason to reach out, and these follow that same arc toward connection. Portal and Portal 2 pair a lone test subject with an AI voice that becomes real company, Doraemon sends a robot cat through time to befriend a lonely boy, and The Wild Robot strands a machine on an island until the wildlife becomes family.
Earth left behind: worlds nature or ruins have reclaimed
WALL-E's Earth is buried in stacked trash with no one left to clean up, and these imagine their worlds after people. Titan A.E. blows up Earth and follows survivors hunting a new one, Horizon Zero Dawn lets wilderness swallow a fallen civilization's machines, Breath of the Wild wanders the ruins of a kingdom a century after its fall, and The Boxtrolls builds a society out of what got thrown away.
Lone astronauts stranded far from everyone they know
WALL-E's first act is a near-silent story of one small machine alone in a vast empty place. Moon strands a worker with only a synthetic assistant on a lonely mining base, Lightyear leaves a ranger stranded decades from everyone he loved, Project Hail Mary sends a lone scientist on a last-ditch mission with an alien crewmate, and Journey lets a wordless traveler cross a vast unknown desert.
Unlikely bonds that form against impossible odds
WALL-E falls for EVE despite being built for different jobs. Elemental pairs two people made of literal fire and water who are never supposed to touch, Home follows a fugitive alien and a reluctant human learning to trust each other, Toy Story 5 keeps finding new reasons for its toys to hold onto each other, and The Time Traveler's Wife builds a marriage around two people living on different clocks.