WALL·E (2008)
Coming out at June 26, 2008 in theaters.
Animation, Adventure, Family
WALL-E is a American computer-animated science fiction romance film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed and co-written by Andrew Stanton, produced by Jim Morris, and co-written by Jim Reardon. It stars the voices of Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy and Sigourney Weaver, with Fred Willard in the film’s only prominent live-action role. The overall ninth feature film produced by the company, WALL-E follows a solitary trash compactor robot on a future, uninhabitable, deserted Earth, left to clean up garbage. However, he is visited by a probe sent by the starship Axiom, a robot called EVE, with whom he falls in love and pursues across the galaxy.
After directing Finding Nemo, Stanton felt Pixar had created believable simulations of underwater physics and was willing to direct a film set largely in space. WALL-E has minimal dialogue in its early sequences; many of the characters do not have voices, but instead communicate with body language and robotic sounds designed by Burtt.
In the 29th century, rampant consumerism and environmental neglect have turned Earth into a garbage-strewn wasteland. Humanity is nowhere to be found, having been evacuated by the megacorporation Buy-N-Large (BnL) on giant starliners seven centuries earlier. Of all the robotic trash compactors left by BnL to clean up, only one remains operational: a Waste Allocation Load-Lifter: Earth Class, or WALL-E. One day, WALL-E’s routine of compressing trash and collecting interesting objects is broken by the arrival of an unmanned probe carrying an Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator or EVE, sent to scan the planet for plant life. WALL-E is smitten by the sleek, otherworldly robot, and the two begin to connect, but EVE goes into standby when he shows her his most recent find: a living plant. The probe returns to collect EVE and the plant, and with WALL-E clinging on, returns to its mothership, the starliner Axiom.
Director: Andrew Stanton
Writers: Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Jim Reardon
Stars: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, MacInTalk, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy
►Cast:
Ben Burtt | … | WALL·E / M-O / Robots (voice) |
Elissa Knight | … | EVE (voice) |
Jeff Garlin | … | Captain (voice) |
Fred Willard | … | Shelby Forthright (voice) |
MacInTalk | … | AUTO (voice) |
John Ratzenberger | … | John (voice) |
Kathy Najimy | … | Mary (voice) |
Sigourney Weaver | … | Ship’s Computer (voice) |
Teddy Newton | … | Steward Bots (voice) |
Bob Bergen | … | Forthright’s Advisor (voice) |
John Cygan | … | Axiom Passenger #3 (voice) |
Pete Docter | … | Lifeguard Bot (voice) |
Paul Eiding | … | Axiom Passenger #12 (voice) |
Donald Fullilove | … | Axiom Passenger #7 (voice) |
Teresa Ganzel | … | (voice) |
Jess Harnell | … | Axiom Passenger #9 (voice) |
Sherry Lynn | … | Axiom Passenger #5 (voice) |
Mickie McGowan | … | Axiom Passenger #4 (voice) |
Laraine Newman | … | Axiom Passenger #10 (voice) |
Lori Alan | … | Axiom Passenger #8 (voice) |
Jeff Pidgeon | … | Axiom Passenger #2 (voice) |
Jan Rabson | … | Axiom Passenger #11 (voice) |
Lori Richardson | … | PR-T (voice) |
Andrew Stanton | … | Axiom Passenger #1 (voice) |
Jim Ward | … | Billboard Announcer (voice) |
Colette Whitaker | … | Axiom Passenger #6 (voice) |
Jennifer Chang | … | Captain Fee |
Ronnie Del Carmen | … | Captain O’Brien |
Dave Alan Johnson | … | Captain Reardon |
Kim Kopf | … | Hoverchair Mother |
Angus MacLane | … | BURN-E (voice) |
Niki McElroy | … | Pool Mother |
Garrett Palmer | … | Blond Boy in Commercial |
Jim Reardon | … | Captain Thompson |
Sinisa Ruzic | … | Ivan |
Peter Sohn | … | Captain Brace |
Kai Steel Smith | … | Brunette Boy in commercial |
Sources: imdb & wikipedia