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WALL-E
Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios


9.0

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MPAA 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)

GENRE(S):	Animation \| Comedy \| Family/Kids \| Romance \| Sci-fi
WRITTEN BY:	Jim Capobianco (titles) Andrew Stanton
DIRECTED BY:	Andrew Stanton
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: November 18, 2008 Theatrical: June 27, 2008
RUNNING TIME:	103 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

100

Village Voice Robert Wilonsky

A film that's both breathtakingly majestic and heartbreakingly intimate.

100

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.

100

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.

100

New York Post Lou Lumenick

A charming, hilarious robot love story aimed at the entire family.

100

USA Today Claudia Puig

At once futuristic, funny and fantastical.

100

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.

100

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.

100

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

It whisks you to another world, then makes it every inch our own.

100

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.

100

TV Guide Ken Fox

It can hardly be called a children's film, but a masterpiece of feature-film animation for all ages.

100

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

This is a beautiful movie.

100

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

The movie does work, spectacularly.

100

Boston Globe Ty Burr

The best American film of the year to date.

100

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.

100

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.

100

Time Richard Corliss

It works; this is Pixar's most enthralling entertainment since "Nemo."

100

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.

100

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.

100

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.

100

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.

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.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

A charmer of a film and a delightful piece of storytelling.

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.

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.

Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar

A thoroughly enjoyable film, and ranks with Pixar's best.

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.

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.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

A potent environmental message wrapped up in an irresistibly cute romance between robots.

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.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

Put simply, WALL-E is about as charming as movies get.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

It's a justifiably G-rated film, but parents may have some 'splainin' to do.

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.

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.

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.

Slate Dana Stevens

Wall-E is an improbable delight, a G-rated crowd-pleaser.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

With rich, detailed, cinematic animation and terrific sound effects, WALLE pulls this unlikely love story off.

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.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

In the moment, it's intermittently transcendent, heartrending and beautiful ... and busy, repetitious and boring.

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

The picture feels weirdly, and disappointingly, disjointed, something that starts out as poetry and ends as product.

The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 981 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

priya k gave it a9:
The first half was just magical (disneys way). It goes to say that you dont need a voice to express what you feel. Especially Eve it is all said with the eyes. Detailing is seen in everything - Wall-E's eyebrows, expressions, solar power.. I thought there is going to be nothing in parallel with Finding Nemo..Looks like the director came back with an equal!!

Caleb H. gave it a10:
My friends can tell you I have an unhealthy habit of bringing up WALL-E in almost every conversation. Words cannot even begin to describe my love for this movie. It's a heart warming, life-appreciating, gem of a movie. Take a civilization that has never heard about what Earth is and what its people do and I bet you they would be amazed. WALL-E finds a way to show us a society just like that and at the same time give us a new perspective on the little things that we have. If you haven't seen WALL-E yet, go see it now. If you just can't seem to see past the idea of a robot love story, you might want to try and unscrew the blots tightly placed in your head.

Jay H. gave it a10:
Brilliant film, the best animation I have ever seen. The story is superb, I was enthralled from beginning to end. One of the best animated films of all time. Absolutely incredible.

Billy S. gave it a10:
Great movie, for an animation it was very moving. How they are still managing to produce such an exposion of visuals and sounds to create such a work of art is beyond belief. A must see, critics were right.

Ari N. gave it a9:
It was a very good movie. My kids loved it. Pixar's animated movies are very interesting because they all get great reviews.

Pan F. gave it a9:
Although technically Pixar made higher movies as in Cars, Wall-E is a significantly beautiful drawing of an amazing picture of hopeful life. Some mistakes maybe be found in this work but no one can deny that its simple joyful characters took over it.

Branden R. gave it a7:
I heard of all the praise that this movie. I was excited seeing this. The love story betweeb WALL-E and EVE was great. The animation was brilliant in the first half of the movie, then on the space ship, I was disappointed. The movie suffered from being too preachy abour commerialism, the environment of Earth and the Axiom.

WALL-E Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios

WALL-E
Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios