Wall-E [DVD] [2008]

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At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has an average score of 95 out of 100 based on 39 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". That's because it is part of the growing class of Digital Copies that studios are investing in with an eye toward the future. But it will be aided tremendously by distributor Disney's recent declaration that they will campaign the movie for the Academy's top honor. You know if your kid has ever come home and said, 'Dad, how come we use so much styrofoam,' oh, this is the movie for you. One day, WALL·E's routine of compressing trash and collecting interesting objects is broken by the arrival of an unmanned probe carrying an egg-shaped robot named Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator (EVE) which is sent to scan the planet for signs of sustainable life.

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The Imperfect Lens: Creating The Look of WALL•E" (14:32) documents the lengths to which the production went to achieve its visual style, from bringing in cinematographer Roger Deakins for a class on lighting, to conducting camera tests with life-size character models. Eventually, fingers, legs, clothes, and other characteristics were added until they arrived at the concept of being fetus-like to allow the audience to see themselves in the characters. Immediately lending itself to those and other enriching activities, WALL•E ups the already startling percentage of such present-day films that emanate from the inventive and unbelievably reliable folks at Pixar. WALL-E has minimal dialogue in its early sequences; many of the characters in the film do not have voices, but instead communicate with body language and robotic sounds that were designed by Burtt.Dubbed “The Walk Home,” the segment used 10 of the most complicated sets ever created by Pixar, at the time, to tell a wordless, one-minute story. MacInTalk, the text-to-speech program for Apple Macintosh computers, is the voice of AUTO (pronounced Otto), the Axiom 's villainous AI autopilot which handles command functions of the ship. EVE uses an emergency exit to chase after WALL·E, and witnesses the pod explode, although both he and the plant survive unscathed. Today, it contributes to a curious trend that has seen the studio's three most recent releases among its lowest-attended.

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It won all three awards it was nominated for by the Visual Effects Society: Best Animation, Best Character Animation (for WALL-E and EVE in the truck) and Best Effects in the Animated Motion Picture categories. EVE brings the plant back to McCrea, who watches her recordings of Earth, concluding that they can and must save it.Set 800 years in the future, WALL•E tells us the story of its title character, one of the last Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class robots still working on an uninhabitable planet Earth. Stanton also moved the moment where WALL-E reveals his plant (which he had snatched from the self-destructing escape pod) from producing it from a closet to immediately after his escape, as it made EVE happier and gave them stronger motivation to dance around the ship. Back in the days of Pixar's earliest releases, that total would have made it box office king for the year. O'Bannon wrote his script in a manner Stanton found reminded him of haiku, where visual descriptions were done in continuous lines of a few words.