Starring the voices of: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Sigourney Weaver
Director: Andrew Stanton
Category: I
Who'd have thought that, after years of invigorating animation films, Pixar would deliver its best work yet with a film on a garbage-processing, cockroach-befriending robot? The film is at once masterfully witty and intensely poignant. It mixes a simple love story with both an ecological message and a nod to masterpieces from the cinematic canon.
WALL-E proves that even in a computer-generated world, using less visual trickery can yield rich sensory rewards.
Revolving around the title character, whose name is an abbreviation for 'Waste Allocation Lift Loader, Earth-Class', the film begins 700 years from now, when the Earth no longer supports life and serves as a massive intergalactic rubbish dump. The desolate landscape sets the scene for the work of WALL-E (his sporadic monosyllabic mutterings voiced by Ben Burtt).