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WALL-E
EMAILPRINTWalt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios

Universal acclaim
Based on 39 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Animation | Comedy | Family/Kids | Romance | Sci-fi
Written by:
Jim Capobianco (titles)
Andrew Stanton
Directed by: Andrew Stanton
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 27, 2008
DVD: November 18, 2008
Running Time: 103 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: G
Starring Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin, Sigourney Weaver, John Ratzenberger, and Kathy Najimy
What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, Wall-E discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that Wall-E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet’s future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans. Meanwhile, WALL-E chases eve across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most exciting and imaginative comedy adventures ever brought to the big screen. Joining WALL-E on his fantastic journey across a universe of never-before-imagined visions of the future is a hilarious cast of characters including a pet cockroach, and a heroic team of malfunctioning misfit robots. (Walt Disney Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
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Village Voice Robert Wilonsky
A film that's both breathtakingly majestic and heartbreakingly intimate.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
The visual design of Wall-E is arguably Pixar's best. Stanton, who wrote the script with Jim Reardon from a story he concocted with Peter Docter, creates two fantastically imaginative, breathtakingly lit worlds.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
While I may argue with the little guy's taste in musicals, it's remarkable to see any film, in any genre, blend honest sentiment with genuine wit and a visual landscape unlike any other.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
A charming, hilarious robot love story aimed at the entire family.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson
It's Pixar's most daring experiment to date, but it still fits neatly into the studio's pantheon: Made with as much focus on heart as on visual quality, it's a sheer joy.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
It whisks you to another world, then makes it every inch our own.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
The first 40 minutes or so of Wall-E -- in which barely any dialogue is spoken, and almost no human figures appear on screen -- is a cinematic poem of such wit and beauty that its darker implications may take a while to sink in.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
The first half hour of WALL-E is essentially wordless, and left me speechless. This magnificent animated feature from Pixar starts on such a high plane of aspiration, and achievement, that you wonder whether the wonder can be sustained. But yes, it can.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
It can hardly be called a children's film, but a masterpiece of feature-film animation for all ages.
Read Full Review >Washington Post John Anderson
The idea that a company in the business of mainstream entertainment would make something as creative, substantial and cautionary as WALL-E has to raise your hopes for humanity.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Mixing Chaplinesque delicacy with the architectural grandeur of a Stanley Kubrick film, director Andrew Stanton recycles film history and makes something fresh and accessible from it without pandering to a young audience.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Daring and traditional, groundbreaking and familiar, apocalyptic and sentimental, Wall-E gains strength from embracing contradictions that would destroy other films.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
It works; this is Pixar's most enthralling entertainment since "Nemo."
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
Once again, the Pixar wizards have pushed the animation envelope in unexpected directions and come up with a winner. Wondrously inventive, funny and poignant, WALL*E is part sci-fi adventure, part cautionary fable, part satire and part love story, which may be the best and most improbable part of all.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
The new Pixar picture Wall-E is one for the ages, a masterpiece to be savored before or after the end of the world.
Read Full Review >Empire Olly Richards
To call WALL•E Pixar's best film would potentially denigrate films that deserve no scorn. But this is their most ambitious undertaking since "Toy Story" and storytelling of such charm and visual wit that it can stand proudly alongside the studio’s best. Absolute heaven.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
The story line for WALL-E is probably too convoluted for small kids, and sometimes it suffers from techie overload, but it's more heartfelt than anything on the screens these days featuring humans.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
A charmer of a film and a delightful piece of storytelling.
Read Full Review >NPR Bob Mondello
The first hour of Wall-E is a crazily inventive, deliriously engaging and almost wordless silent comedy of the sort that Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton used to make.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker David Denby
Apparently, the movie has caused annoyance in some quarters because it criticizes the American way of life. This it does, and with suavity and supreme good humor. WALL-E is a classic, but it will never appeal to people who are happy with art only when it has as little bite as possible.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar
A thoroughly enjoyable film, and ranks with Pixar's best.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
This is Pixar's finest and most emotionally powerful film yet, and it draws on a wealth of cinematic resources that run the gamut from Chaplin's best to Buster Keaton, Jacques Tati, and even Martin and Lewis.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
A potent environmental message wrapped up in an irresistibly cute romance between robots.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Succeeds at being three things at once: an enthralling animated film, a visual wonderment and a decent science-fiction story.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Put simply, WALL-E is about as charming as movies get.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
It's a justifiably G-rated film, but parents may have some 'splainin' to do.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
Rotates around a rusty little robotic hero who's built, as the movie is, with such emotion, brains and humor that whole universes exist in his whirring tones and binocular eyes.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
The movie's first half is largely free of dialogue, playing like silent comedy, while the second act offers a breathtaking tour of the cosmos.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
Walks a fine line between the rarefied and the immediately accessible as it explores new territory for animation, yet remains sufficiently crowd-pleasing.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
In the moment, it's intermittently transcendent, heartrending and beautiful ... and busy, repetitious and boring.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
With rich, detailed, cinematic animation and terrific sound effects, WALLE pulls this unlikely love story off.
Read Full Review >Premiere Jenni Miller
When it works, it really works, but it's debatable whether its target audience will really enjoy anything more than the nifty robots. Which is fine, too. Robots are pretty cool.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
The picture feels weirdly, and disappointingly, disjointed, something that starts out as poetry and ends as product.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.9 (out of 10) based on 1143 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Napo l gave it a10:
A new Classic. Pixar are going to have a hard time topping this; it is an absolute masterpiece, daring and endearing at the same time. Again, a new classic.
Nancy M gave it a10:
Utterly charming and fabulous. The best complete character introduction (in less than 10 minutes) and the best rendering of "love at first sight" I've ever seen in a movie. Totally won my heart.
Brandon S gave it a10:
The best film of 2008, animated or otherwise, by a mile. An absolute, hands down classic. Brilliant, funny, touching, stunning. Don't miss this one.
Robert B gave it an8:
It was a cute film but I felt it was trying to shove the environmental crap down our throats. I get it that we are fat pigs that pollute the planet. Alright already I'll- reuse,reduce and recycle. Although I admit it is on par for a pixar film.
Emily P gave it a9:
Breathtaking beauty and touching throughout the film, I found that this movie seemed to hide a kind of political message that kids might not appreciate as well as adults...I felt that it held a kind of depth that is rarely seen in children's movies, while still managing to be heart-warming to everyone. It's a bizarre mix, but it works! My only problem with it was the fact that certain scenes dragged on in a dull way...but always managed to pick up.
Leonardo C gave it a10:
The best movie of the 2008... oustanding on visuals, soundtrack, editing sound and writing, it's without no doubt the most innovative movie of the year. I love so much this movie, because it speak so loud about love and relationships. Pixar have never failed me.
mike k gave it a9:
Very fun different than any of the other pixar films
