The film received critical acclaim for its animation, story, voice acting, characters, visuals, score, sound design, screenplay, use of minimal dialogue, and scenes of romance. WALL-E was released in the United States on June 27, 2008. Following Pixar tradition, WALL-E was paired with a short film titled Presto for its theatrical release. The film cost $180 million to produce, a record-breaking sum for an animated film at the time.

Thomas Newman composed the film's musical score. It is also Pixar's first animated film with segments featuring live-action characters. The film incorporates various topics including consumerism, corporatocracy, nostalgia, waste management, human environmental impact and concerns, obesity/ sedentary lifestyles, and global catastrophic risk. WALL-E has minimal dialogue in its early sequences many of the characters do not have voices, but instead communicate with body language and robotic sounds designed by Burtt. He is visited by a probe sent by the starship Axiom, a robot called EVE, with whom he falls in love and pursues across the galaxy.Īfter directing Finding Nemo, Stanton felt Pixar had created believable simulations of underwater physics and was willing to direct a film set largely in space. The overall ninth feature film produced by the studio, WALL-E follows a solitary robot on a future, uninhabitable, deserted Earth in 2805, left to clean up garbage. It stars the voices of Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy, with Sigourney Weaver and Fred Willard. It was directed and co-written by Andrew Stanton, produced by Jim Morris, and co-written by Jim Reardon. WALL-E (stylized with an interpunct as WALL♾) is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

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