WALL-E (promoted with an interpunct as WALL•E) is a 2008 computer animated adventure comedy science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures on June 27, 2008.
PLOT
In the 2100s, the company Buy 'n Large supplies almost every service on Earth and eventually becomes the world government. Overrun by consumerism, the planet eventually becomes so heavily polluted that it can no longer support life. In an attempt to keep humanity alive, Buy 'n Large sponsors an exodus to space aboard several Executive Starliners, one of which is the Axiom. In the meantime, millions of WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) units are left behind to clean up the planet by gathering up garbage and compacting it into cubes for easy disposal. The recovery plan fails, and by 2805, only one WALL-E (the protagonist, voiced by Ben Burtt) remains operational. He is curious, awkward and just a little lonely. WALL-E has developed a personality and collects various items that he finds among the refuse, including a Rubik's Cube, plastic utensils, a lighter, an iPod, and a treasured videotape of the film Hello, Dolly! that teaches him emotion, particularly holding hands. He also finds and saves a seedling plant, repotting it in an old boot.
EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) (Elissa Knight), a robot from the Axiom sent to find plant life, lands on Earth. After observing her from afar, the two robots finally make contact and WALL-E's curiosity grows quickly into love. After multiple misunderstandings, WALL-E shows her the plant he found. Following her directive, EVE stores the plant inside herself and deactivates herself. WALL-E goes to great lengths to protect her body including harming himself. EVE is eventually recovered by the ship that took her to Earth and where other EVEs are stored and flys back to the Axiom. Chasing EVE, WALL-E latches on to the outside of the ship and rides it back to its destination. Aboard the Axiom, WALL-E escapes notice by other robots and explores the ship. After 700 years of liquid food and leaving all the work to robots, humanity have become lazy and morbidly obese, unable to stand or move without robotic help, and have no awareness of Earth. Every task is now automated, including the captain's duties, which are handled by the autopilot AUTO (MacInTalk).
WALL-E follows EVE to the captain's room, where the captain (Jeff Garlin) is to be shown the plant. However, EVE no longer contains the plant. AUTO informs the captain that EVE has apparently malfunctioned, and she is sent to the robot repair room. WALL-E is spotted and also sent to the repair room, where he, in a misunderstanding about the diagnostic machine, takes EVE's gun arm and accidentally liberates all the malfunctioning robots from their prison-like confines. WALL-E is carried away by the celebrating, newly-freed malfunctioning units. EVE chases the other robots and WALL-E to recover her arm; in the process, she is accidentally labeled as a rogue robot, mistaken for helping lead the other crazed robots. Seeing the chaos WALL-E has caused, EVE tries to send him back to Earth in an escape pod, but he refuses to go. While she tries to put WALL-E into the pod, AUTO's assistant, GO-4, arrives and reveals that he had the plant the whole time. He then tries to dispose of it in the escape pod, and when WALL-E tries to retrieve it, he is launched into space and the pod's self-destruct sequence is activated. By using a fire extinguisher to propel himself, he escapes with the plant at the last second. Realizing that the plant has been recovered, AUTO again triggers the alert against WALL-E and EVE. EVE brings the plant to the captain; curious to see images of Earth, he projects EVE's memories and security camera footage from when she shut down, where she sees the lengths that WALL-E went to protect her. The captain is shocked by the environmental devastation on Earth depicted in the recordings and decides they must return to make amends.
AUTO mutinies and tries to dispose of the plant, and is forced to reveal the truth of the situation to the captain. After leaving the Earth, Buy 'n Large quickly concluded that the planet was too toxic to ever support life again and abandoned recolonization plans; as a result, AUTO is secretly programmed to never return to Earth. AUTO locks the captain in his bedroom, electrically shocks WALL-E, throws him and the plant into a garbage chute, and deactivates EVE. EVE awakens in the Axiom's disposal facility where gigantic WALL-A (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Axiom-Class) units are compacting garbage and launching it into space. EVE saves WALL-E, whose hardware is heavily damaged and rapidly losing battery power, and realizes that they must return to Earth in order to fix him. They recruit the malfunctioning robots and fight their way back to the main part of the ship. Meanwhile, the captain tricks AUTO into bringing him back onto the bridge. He tells WALL-E and EVE to put the plant on the holo-detector, a pedestal that rises from the floor on one of the passenger decks. AUTO forces the holo-detector back into the floor and turns the ship on its side, and EVE is forced to save several humans as they slide into a wall. WALL-E uses his body to jam the holo-detector open so EVE can put the plant inside. The captain shuts down AUTO, takes manual control, once the plant is in the holo-detector the ship's hyperjump back to Earth is initiated. WALL-E's crushed body runs out of charge and shuts down.
Once they arrive on Earth, EVE frantically replaces WALL-E's damaged components using spare parts in his home. As he recharges, he appears to lose the personality he has developed and begins to perform his programmed task, crushing his knick-knacks into cubes. EVE, despondent over the loss of WALL-E, holds his hand and leans forward to "kiss" him, causing a spark to jump between the two. The spark reboots WALL-E's memory and he suddenly recognizes her. With a renewed sense of purpose, humanity and robots begin working together to restore Earth's biosphere.
As the credits begin, the redevelopment of Earth is depicted through a series of drawings, starting with primitive cave paintings and moving through more sophisticated techniques. The progression ends with a picture of WALL-E and EVE gazing at a giant tree, which is revealed to be the plant rescued from the Axiom. During the credit roll, pixel art images of the characters appear and interact in various ways.
PLOT
In the 2100s, the company Buy 'n Large supplies almost every service on Earth and eventually becomes the world government. Overrun by consumerism, the planet eventually becomes so heavily polluted that it can no longer support life. In an attempt to keep humanity alive, Buy 'n Large sponsors an exodus to space aboard several Executive Starliners, one of which is the Axiom. In the meantime, millions of WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) units are left behind to clean up the planet by gathering up garbage and compacting it into cubes for easy disposal. The recovery plan fails, and by 2805, only one WALL-E (the protagonist, voiced by Ben Burtt) remains operational. He is curious, awkward and just a little lonely. WALL-E has developed a personality and collects various items that he finds among the refuse, including a Rubik's Cube, plastic utensils, a lighter, an iPod, and a treasured videotape of the film Hello, Dolly! that teaches him emotion, particularly holding hands. He also finds and saves a seedling plant, repotting it in an old boot.
EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator) (Elissa Knight), a robot from the Axiom sent to find plant life, lands on Earth. After observing her from afar, the two robots finally make contact and WALL-E's curiosity grows quickly into love. After multiple misunderstandings, WALL-E shows her the plant he found. Following her directive, EVE stores the plant inside herself and deactivates herself. WALL-E goes to great lengths to protect her body including harming himself. EVE is eventually recovered by the ship that took her to Earth and where other EVEs are stored and flys back to the Axiom. Chasing EVE, WALL-E latches on to the outside of the ship and rides it back to its destination. Aboard the Axiom, WALL-E escapes notice by other robots and explores the ship. After 700 years of liquid food and leaving all the work to robots, humanity have become lazy and morbidly obese, unable to stand or move without robotic help, and have no awareness of Earth. Every task is now automated, including the captain's duties, which are handled by the autopilot AUTO (MacInTalk).
WALL-E follows EVE to the captain's room, where the captain (Jeff Garlin) is to be shown the plant. However, EVE no longer contains the plant. AUTO informs the captain that EVE has apparently malfunctioned, and she is sent to the robot repair room. WALL-E is spotted and also sent to the repair room, where he, in a misunderstanding about the diagnostic machine, takes EVE's gun arm and accidentally liberates all the malfunctioning robots from their prison-like confines. WALL-E is carried away by the celebrating, newly-freed malfunctioning units. EVE chases the other robots and WALL-E to recover her arm; in the process, she is accidentally labeled as a rogue robot, mistaken for helping lead the other crazed robots. Seeing the chaos WALL-E has caused, EVE tries to send him back to Earth in an escape pod, but he refuses to go. While she tries to put WALL-E into the pod, AUTO's assistant, GO-4, arrives and reveals that he had the plant the whole time. He then tries to dispose of it in the escape pod, and when WALL-E tries to retrieve it, he is launched into space and the pod's self-destruct sequence is activated. By using a fire extinguisher to propel himself, he escapes with the plant at the last second. Realizing that the plant has been recovered, AUTO again triggers the alert against WALL-E and EVE. EVE brings the plant to the captain; curious to see images of Earth, he projects EVE's memories and security camera footage from when she shut down, where she sees the lengths that WALL-E went to protect her. The captain is shocked by the environmental devastation on Earth depicted in the recordings and decides they must return to make amends.
AUTO mutinies and tries to dispose of the plant, and is forced to reveal the truth of the situation to the captain. After leaving the Earth, Buy 'n Large quickly concluded that the planet was too toxic to ever support life again and abandoned recolonization plans; as a result, AUTO is secretly programmed to never return to Earth. AUTO locks the captain in his bedroom, electrically shocks WALL-E, throws him and the plant into a garbage chute, and deactivates EVE. EVE awakens in the Axiom's disposal facility where gigantic WALL-A (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Axiom-Class) units are compacting garbage and launching it into space. EVE saves WALL-E, whose hardware is heavily damaged and rapidly losing battery power, and realizes that they must return to Earth in order to fix him. They recruit the malfunctioning robots and fight their way back to the main part of the ship. Meanwhile, the captain tricks AUTO into bringing him back onto the bridge. He tells WALL-E and EVE to put the plant on the holo-detector, a pedestal that rises from the floor on one of the passenger decks. AUTO forces the holo-detector back into the floor and turns the ship on its side, and EVE is forced to save several humans as they slide into a wall. WALL-E uses his body to jam the holo-detector open so EVE can put the plant inside. The captain shuts down AUTO, takes manual control, once the plant is in the holo-detector the ship's hyperjump back to Earth is initiated. WALL-E's crushed body runs out of charge and shuts down.
Once they arrive on Earth, EVE frantically replaces WALL-E's damaged components using spare parts in his home. As he recharges, he appears to lose the personality he has developed and begins to perform his programmed task, crushing his knick-knacks into cubes. EVE, despondent over the loss of WALL-E, holds his hand and leans forward to "kiss" him, causing a spark to jump between the two. The spark reboots WALL-E's memory and he suddenly recognizes her. With a renewed sense of purpose, humanity and robots begin working together to restore Earth's biosphere.
As the credits begin, the redevelopment of Earth is depicted through a series of drawings, starting with primitive cave paintings and moving through more sophisticated techniques. The progression ends with a picture of WALL-E and EVE gazing at a giant tree, which is revealed to be the plant rescued from the Axiom. During the credit roll, pixel art images of the characters appear and interact in various ways.
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