| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | WALL-E (2008) |
| Director | Andrew Stanton |
| Writer | Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Jim Reardon |
| Lead Actor | Ben Burtt |
| Cast | Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin |
| Genre | Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi |
| Release Date | June 27, 2008 (United States) |
| Duration | 1h 38m(98 min) |
| Budget | $180 million |
| Language | English |
| IMDB Rating | 8.4/10 |
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“Too much garbage in your face? There’s plenty of room in space.” Thus begins a song from the global econocracy, “Buy and Large,” to entice people to take a space cruise vacation in a distant galaxy while robots clean up the devastating human-created debris on the earth.
WALL•E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class, voiced by Ben Burtt) is the only robot who has survived the 700 years since the cleanup began. Watched by a friendly cockroach, he collects mementos from the dump heap that is New York City. He watches a video of Hello, Dolly! over and over. One day WALL•E finds a green vine.
In a scene reminiscent of a nuclear blast, a spaceship from the cruise vessel drops off a sleek new robot named EVE (Extra terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator, voiced by Elissa Knight). She is programmed to detect a sign that the earth can produce food and sustain life. The lonely WALL•E falls for EVE and then follows her when she grabs the plant and returns to the mother ship to report her findings.
After generations of waiting for life to reemerge on earth, the people on the cruise ship are morbidly obese: They never exercise and exist in a kind of consumerism induced coma. The discovery of the green plant wakes people up and they begin to question their idyllic, mechanical, programmed existence. It also sparks a struggle between the robots and humans.
WALL•E is a clever piece of science fiction that has elements of Star Wars, E.T.: The Extra-terrestrial, I, Robot and I Am Legend. At first it seems that Oscar-winning director writer Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo) has brought together incompatible story lines. Kids will find the film entertaining, but thoughtful teens and adults will realize that Stanton has created an edgy, satirical film that is dark and enlightened.
WALL•E explores the causes and consequences of consumer pollution on the world’s future, both material and spiritual. It focuses on the United States as the main garbage-producing country in the world, with each person producing about 4.5 pounds daily. According to the film, the solution to this problem is that someone is going to have to make a sacrifice. A great conversation piece for families and classrooms about the essential link between human dignity and the environment.
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