Film Forum

U.S., 2008
Directed by Andrew Stanton
With Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin
Cinematography by Jeremy Lasky, Danielle Feinberg
Edited by Stephen Schaffer
Music by Thomas Newman
WINNER Academy Awards® – Best Animated Feature, 2009
Approx. 98 min. DCP.

“A masterpiece to be savored before or after the end of the world — assuming, like the title character, you’re still around when all the humans have taken off and have access to an old video player. Wall-E (that’s the name of the machine) is a trash compactor, the last of his kind from an age in which cleaning up garbage was mankind’s highest priority — before people threw in the towel (and broom) and apparently (no spoilers here!) rocketed away. Now, this squat, childlike robot with his pivoting goggle eyes resides in a metropolis surrounded by skyscrapers that turn out, on closer inspection, to be compressed trash bricks piled high into the soot-gray sky. The movie is a bit of a trash brick itself: Director Andrew Stanton and his Pixar collaborators have taken cultural detritus — bits and pieces from cherished film genres, pop icons, visionary sci-fi tropes, half-remembered bric-a-brac from childhood — and compacted it all into a sublime work of art.” – Rolling Stone

Reviews

“Pixar’s loveliest creation.”
– San Francisco Chronicle

“...rich, strange and intriguing…”
– The Guardian

“…there’s nothing here that’s not wonderfully imagined and lovingly presented.”
– Time Out