Pixar’s save-the-world eco-epic actually begins with the world destroyed, before a pair of cute robots help put it back together again. Andrew Stanton’s animated comedy finds hope and cheer in a post-apocalyptic scenario, a tall order for any speculative science fiction tale. Meet Wall•E, the nuts ‘n’ bolts super-janitor, and Eve, the sleek next-generation seeker of terrestrial plant re-birth. Good satire and social criticism comes in the brightest package possible in this endearing charmer.
Wall•E 4K
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1161
2008 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 98 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date November 22, 2022 / 39.95
Starring: (voices) Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, MacInTalk, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, Sigourney Weaver, (and) Fred Willard.
Production Designer: Ralph Eggleston
Film Editor: Stephen Schaffer
Original Music: Thomas Newman
Written by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter
Produced by Jim Morris
Directed by Andrew Stanton
Pixar was on a terrific...
Wall•E 4K
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 1161
2008 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 98 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date November 22, 2022 / 39.95
Starring: (voices) Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, MacInTalk, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, Sigourney Weaver, (and) Fred Willard.
Production Designer: Ralph Eggleston
Film Editor: Stephen Schaffer
Original Music: Thomas Newman
Written by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter
Produced by Jim Morris
Directed by Andrew Stanton
Pixar was on a terrific...
- 11/8/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Our countdown of the top 100 films of the 21st Century (so far) concludes here with the top 25.
Click here for Part 1! (#100-76)
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The first decade and a half of the 21st century has brought a lot of changes to the landscape of film. The advancement and sophistication of computers has made realistic computer generated effects a mainstay in both big-budget and small-budget films. The internet and streaming technologies have given big Hollywood new competition in films produced independently and by non-traditional means. We went from purchasing films on yards of tape to plastic disks, and now we can simply upload them to the cloud. Advertisements for films have reached a higher, more ruthless level where generating hype through trailers and teasers is crucial for a film’s commercial success. Movie attendance has fluctuated along with the economy, but that hasn...
Click here for Part 1! (#100-76)
Click here for Part 2! (#75-51)
Click here for Part 3! (#50-26)
The first decade and a half of the 21st century has brought a lot of changes to the landscape of film. The advancement and sophistication of computers has made realistic computer generated effects a mainstay in both big-budget and small-budget films. The internet and streaming technologies have given big Hollywood new competition in films produced independently and by non-traditional means. We went from purchasing films on yards of tape to plastic disks, and now we can simply upload them to the cloud. Advertisements for films have reached a higher, more ruthless level where generating hype through trailers and teasers is crucial for a film’s commercial success. Movie attendance has fluctuated along with the economy, but that hasn...
- 1/27/2016
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (G.S. Perno)
- Cinelinx
Films about robots have long captured the imagination of movie goers, who may or may not believe in its existence in the not-so-distant-future. Here are the top films about these intelligent mechanical human friends... or enemies. Check it out!
The Best Robot Movies'i, Robot'
When: 2004 Who: Will Smith and Bridget Moynahan What: In the not so distant future, (2035), a detective, who dislikes the rapid advancement of technology, investigates a crime that may have been caused by a robot.
The Best Robot Movies'i, Robot'
When: 2004 Who: Will Smith and Bridget Moynahan What: In the not so distant future, (2035), a detective, who dislikes the rapid advancement of technology, investigates a crime that may have been caused by a robot.
- 10/9/2011
- Extra
Hitting movie theaters this weekend:
Horrible Bosses – Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis
Zookeeper – Kevin James, Rosario Dawson, Leslie Bibb
Movie of the Week
Horrible Bosses
The Stars: Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis
The Plot: Three friends conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness.
The Buzz: I can’t say that I’m terribly excited about this film — I’d rather go see Super 8 (again) or Transformers 3 (again). Still, anything’s better than Zookeeper. Bateman is great, and the actors populating these horrible bosses are all battle-tested in the realm of good comedy (Jennifer Aniston = Office Space, Colin Farrell = In Bruges, Kevin Spacey = Hurlyburly). When he’s on, Seth Gordon is a phenomenal director (see The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters), so this should be at least good. The trailer was pretty unimpressive though...
Horrible Bosses – Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis
Zookeeper – Kevin James, Rosario Dawson, Leslie Bibb
Movie of the Week
Horrible Bosses
The Stars: Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis
The Plot: Three friends conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness.
The Buzz: I can’t say that I’m terribly excited about this film — I’d rather go see Super 8 (again) or Transformers 3 (again). Still, anything’s better than Zookeeper. Bateman is great, and the actors populating these horrible bosses are all battle-tested in the realm of good comedy (Jennifer Aniston = Office Space, Colin Farrell = In Bruges, Kevin Spacey = Hurlyburly). When he’s on, Seth Gordon is a phenomenal director (see The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters), so this should be at least good. The trailer was pretty unimpressive though...
- 7/6/2011
- by Aaron Ruffcorn
- The Scorecard Review
In reviewing Moon, I think I said all I really need to say on sci-fi flicks for the purpose of this list:
As a former card-carrying scientist, and perpetual geek-nerd, I love science fiction. Which is why I hate most science fiction movies -- like a fucking vampire, they suck all the goodness out of the genre and then take a big steamer on the leftover corpse. Science fiction done right isn't just about high-gloss technology, aliens, dystopia, alternate histories, nanotechnology, clones, robots, time travel, space travel, spaceships and off-world exploration, etc. Sure, great science fiction often has one or more of these elements and, done right, that stuff is f'ing cool. But the best science fiction uses these themes and elements, or ones like them, as tools to explore. From Mary Shelley to Asimov, Pohl, Heinlein, and Gibson, from Kubrick to Ridley Scott to Joss Whedon, the science fiction genre,...
As a former card-carrying scientist, and perpetual geek-nerd, I love science fiction. Which is why I hate most science fiction movies -- like a fucking vampire, they suck all the goodness out of the genre and then take a big steamer on the leftover corpse. Science fiction done right isn't just about high-gloss technology, aliens, dystopia, alternate histories, nanotechnology, clones, robots, time travel, space travel, spaceships and off-world exploration, etc. Sure, great science fiction often has one or more of these elements and, done right, that stuff is f'ing cool. But the best science fiction uses these themes and elements, or ones like them, as tools to explore. From Mary Shelley to Asimov, Pohl, Heinlein, and Gibson, from Kubrick to Ridley Scott to Joss Whedon, the science fiction genre,...
- 12/14/2009
- by Seth Freilich
See plenty of clips from Disney/Pixar's upcoming DVD and Blu-ray release of the heartwarming "Wall-e" animated sci-fi adventure. The film opened on June 27th this year with $62.5 million and is still tracking at the box office with over $222.7 million pocked for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is currently ranked at number 65 within the top 150 films of all time. See the complete list of big boy grossers here. The wonderful film comes out in the following formats on November 18th. If you haven't seen it, you're missing out possibly the best animated release of the year and an eye opener. All are embedded within the same player for your convenience. On DVD and Blu-ray: (Now selling on MovieJungle.com Direct!) Wall-e (Blu/3Disc Collector's Edition) Wall-e (3Disc/3Disc Collector's Edition) Wall-e (Blu/2Disc) Wall-e (Ws) Wall-e (Ws/Spanish) Wall-e(2008)(Released date: 6/27/2008) - Rate & Review this! - Add to your List!
- 11/10/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Seen on: June 27, 2008
The players: Director: Andrew Stanton, Writer: Andrew Stanton, Cast: Benjamin Burtt, Jeff Garlin, Elissa Knight, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger
Facts of interest: Stanton also directed "Finding Nemo" and co-directed "A Bug's Life."
The plot: The story focuses on a little robot who's programed to compress trash but finds a new purpose in his existence when he falls in love with a droid from space.
Our thoughts: “Wall-e” is not necessarily my favorite Pixar flick (I’ll stick with “The Incredibles” for now), but it’s undoubtedly another wonderful animated family adventure that will enchant youngsters and grown-ups alike. Just as any other masterpiece the folks over at Pixar have developed over the past years, the film combines striking visuals with a heartwarming story to send cinemagoers on a ride they’ll never forget. Who thought a little robot could steal our hearts that quickly?...
The players: Director: Andrew Stanton, Writer: Andrew Stanton, Cast: Benjamin Burtt, Jeff Garlin, Elissa Knight, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger
Facts of interest: Stanton also directed "Finding Nemo" and co-directed "A Bug's Life."
The plot: The story focuses on a little robot who's programed to compress trash but finds a new purpose in his existence when he falls in love with a droid from space.
Our thoughts: “Wall-e” is not necessarily my favorite Pixar flick (I’ll stick with “The Incredibles” for now), but it’s undoubtedly another wonderful animated family adventure that will enchant youngsters and grown-ups alike. Just as any other masterpiece the folks over at Pixar have developed over the past years, the film combines striking visuals with a heartwarming story to send cinemagoers on a ride they’ll never forget. Who thought a little robot could steal our hearts that quickly?...
- 6/28/2008
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
Here’s another great featurette “Day at Work” from the upcoming animated film “Wall·E” by director Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo) and starring Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Fred Willard and Sigourney Weaver. In this clip Wall·E goes about his typical day of work on a deserted planet earth. Synopsis: After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, Wall-e (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek [...]...
- 6/28/2008
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
Watch a brand new featurette titled “Lots of Bots” from the upcoming animated film “Wall-e” by director Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo) and starring Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Fred Willard and Sigourney Weaver. Synopsis: After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, Wall-e (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named Eve. Eve comes to realize that Wall-e has inadvertently stumbled [...]...
- 6/27/2008
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
Opens Friday, June 27 (Walt Disney Pictures)
This is getting to sound like a broken record: Pixar Animation Studios has just topped itself. Again. In "Wall-E", following the sublime culinary slapstick of "Ratatouille", Pixar and director/writer Andrew Stanton -- officially the studio's ninth employee way back when -- have spun a whimsical sci-fi fantasy about robots 800 years into the future that has all the heart, soul, spirit and romance of the very best silent movies 60 years ago. Well, you don't expect robots to talk, do you? While the soundtrack is full of clanking noises, explosions, music and even dance numbers, there is little dialogue as such to get this story told. Because Stanton and his animation team punch across their terrific (and ecologically sound!) story by inventing a visual and aural language with which these robotic creatures can express a rainbow of emotions.
The film is so clever and sophisticated that you worry, slightly, that it may be too clever to connect with mainstream audiences. But like those worries last year that having a rat for a hero in "Ratatouille" might throw off audiences, "Wall-E" is so sweet and funny that the multitudes will undoubtedly surrender to its many charms.
A polluted and toxic Earth has been abandoned by mankind centuries ago, only somebody forgot to turn off the last robot. That would be Wall-E (an acronym that stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class), a mobile trash compactor who goes about his job decade after decade. He has even developed a storage system so he can self-replace his parts. His only companion is a cockroach. Well, you knew that creature would survive anything.
Mankind, grown fat and lazy after centuries of floating like lotus eaters in a Club Med spaceship above Earth, sends out a probe to search for signs of life on the abandoned planet. That would be Eve (Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator). Wall-E develops a mighty crush on Eve, although her fearsome temper -- she tends to blast anything that moves -- makes him shy. But their romance, an innocence in the unlikeliest of places, blossoms. Wall-E even shows her his little green plant.
His little WHAT? That's the very thing she's been looking for! That plant launches the couple on an epic journey to the Axiom spaceship, where with other "rogue robots" they overthrow a robotic controlled civilization and galvanize humans -- more robotic than the actual robots -- into something approaching Life.
The visual design of "Wall-E" is arguably Pixar's best. Stanton, who wrote the script with Jim Reardon from a story he concocted with Peter Docter, creates two fantastically imaginative, breathtakingly lit worlds -- a wretched, destroyed Earth city, not unlike Manhattan, and the spaceship where humans hover in floating couches, their bloated body fat encasing virtually useless bones, while an intricate series of robots perform all labor and a 3-D Internet is the only form of human communication.
The real stroke of brilliance, though, is the use of old movie footage, mixed in with the CG animation, to trigger Wall-E's romantic yearnings. After work, Wall-E endlessly watches a videotape from the 1969 movie "Hello, Dolly!" The musical imagery and two songs make him understand what love and passion mean. He even learns how to hold hands, something he is finally able to try out with Eve.
Sound designer Ben Burtt creates expressive sounds given off by the robots, and in particular Wall-E, that you would swear are voices speaking words. If there is such a thing as an aural sleight-of-hand, this is it.
There are lifts from "2001" -- acknowledged as such with a wink by the filmmakers -- as there are moments when the robots run riot that remind you of Pixar's own "Monsters, Inc". Yet "Wall-E" is just possibly the studio's most original work yet. Can they really top this?
Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
Cast: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, Macintalk, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, Sigourney Weaver.
Director: Andrew Stanton.
Screenwriters: Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon.
Story: Andrew Stanton, Peter Docter.
Producer: Jim Morris.
Executive producer: John Lasseter.
Director of photography: Jeremy Lasky, Danielle Feinberg.
Production designer: Ralph Eggleston.
Visual concultants: Roger Deakins, Dennis Muren.
Music: Thomas Newman.
Editor: Stephen Schaffer.
Rated G, 97 minutes.
This is getting to sound like a broken record: Pixar Animation Studios has just topped itself. Again. In "Wall-E", following the sublime culinary slapstick of "Ratatouille", Pixar and director/writer Andrew Stanton -- officially the studio's ninth employee way back when -- have spun a whimsical sci-fi fantasy about robots 800 years into the future that has all the heart, soul, spirit and romance of the very best silent movies 60 years ago. Well, you don't expect robots to talk, do you? While the soundtrack is full of clanking noises, explosions, music and even dance numbers, there is little dialogue as such to get this story told. Because Stanton and his animation team punch across their terrific (and ecologically sound!) story by inventing a visual and aural language with which these robotic creatures can express a rainbow of emotions.
The film is so clever and sophisticated that you worry, slightly, that it may be too clever to connect with mainstream audiences. But like those worries last year that having a rat for a hero in "Ratatouille" might throw off audiences, "Wall-E" is so sweet and funny that the multitudes will undoubtedly surrender to its many charms.
A polluted and toxic Earth has been abandoned by mankind centuries ago, only somebody forgot to turn off the last robot. That would be Wall-E (an acronym that stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class), a mobile trash compactor who goes about his job decade after decade. He has even developed a storage system so he can self-replace his parts. His only companion is a cockroach. Well, you knew that creature would survive anything.
Mankind, grown fat and lazy after centuries of floating like lotus eaters in a Club Med spaceship above Earth, sends out a probe to search for signs of life on the abandoned planet. That would be Eve (Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator). Wall-E develops a mighty crush on Eve, although her fearsome temper -- she tends to blast anything that moves -- makes him shy. But their romance, an innocence in the unlikeliest of places, blossoms. Wall-E even shows her his little green plant.
His little WHAT? That's the very thing she's been looking for! That plant launches the couple on an epic journey to the Axiom spaceship, where with other "rogue robots" they overthrow a robotic controlled civilization and galvanize humans -- more robotic than the actual robots -- into something approaching Life.
The visual design of "Wall-E" is arguably Pixar's best. Stanton, who wrote the script with Jim Reardon from a story he concocted with Peter Docter, creates two fantastically imaginative, breathtakingly lit worlds -- a wretched, destroyed Earth city, not unlike Manhattan, and the spaceship where humans hover in floating couches, their bloated body fat encasing virtually useless bones, while an intricate series of robots perform all labor and a 3-D Internet is the only form of human communication.
The real stroke of brilliance, though, is the use of old movie footage, mixed in with the CG animation, to trigger Wall-E's romantic yearnings. After work, Wall-E endlessly watches a videotape from the 1969 movie "Hello, Dolly!" The musical imagery and two songs make him understand what love and passion mean. He even learns how to hold hands, something he is finally able to try out with Eve.
Sound designer Ben Burtt creates expressive sounds given off by the robots, and in particular Wall-E, that you would swear are voices speaking words. If there is such a thing as an aural sleight-of-hand, this is it.
There are lifts from "2001" -- acknowledged as such with a wink by the filmmakers -- as there are moments when the robots run riot that remind you of Pixar's own "Monsters, Inc". Yet "Wall-E" is just possibly the studio's most original work yet. Can they really top this?
Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios
Cast: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, Macintalk, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, Sigourney Weaver.
Director: Andrew Stanton.
Screenwriters: Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon.
Story: Andrew Stanton, Peter Docter.
Producer: Jim Morris.
Executive producer: John Lasseter.
Director of photography: Jeremy Lasky, Danielle Feinberg.
Production designer: Ralph Eggleston.
Visual concultants: Roger Deakins, Dennis Muren.
Music: Thomas Newman.
Editor: Stephen Schaffer.
Rated G, 97 minutes.
- 6/25/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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