WALL·E (2008)

Director:

Andrew Stanton

Writers:

Andrew Stanton (original story) &
Pete Docter (original story) ...
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Release Date:

27 June 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Family | Romance | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

An Adventure Beyond the Ordinar-E

Plot:

In the distant future, a small waste collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.

Plot Keywords:

Robot | Plant | Rescue | Future | Cockroach

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 44 wins & 38 nominations

Cast

Ben Burtt	...	WALL·E / M-O (voice)
Elissa Knight	...	EVE (voice)
Jeff Garlin	...	Captain McCrea (voice)
Fred Willard	...	Shelby Forthright - BnL CEO
MacInTalk	...	AUTO (voice)
John Ratzenberger	...	John (voice)
Kathy Najimy	...	Mary (voice)
Sigourney Weaver	...	Ship's Computer (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kim Kopf	...	Hoverchair Mother (voice)
Garrett Palmer	...	Blond Boy in BnL Commercial (voice) (uncredited)
Kai Steel Smith	...	Brown·haired Boy in BnL commercial (voice) (uncredited)

Directed by
Andrew Stanton

Writing credits
Andrew Stanton		(original story) &
Pete Docter		(original story)
Andrew Stanton		(screenplay) &
Jim Reardon		(screenplay)

Produced by
Lindsey Collins	....	co-producer
John Lasseter	....	executive producer
Gillian Libbert	....	line producer
Jim Morris	....	producer
Thomas Porter	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Thomas Newman

Film Editing by
Stephen Schaffer

Casting by
Natalie Lyon
Kevin Reher

Production Design by
Ralph Eggleston

Makeup Department
Gretchen Davis	....	key makeup artist

Production Management
Joshua Hollander	....	production manager
Andrea Warren	....	production manager

Art Department
James S. Baker	....	storyboard artist
Bert Berry	....	art director: shading
Zoe Boxer	....	production coordinator
Brian Christian	....	previsualisation artist
Anthony B. Christov	....	art director: set (as Anthony Christov)
Jason Deamer	....	art director: characters
Ricardo F. Delgado	....	development artist
Brian Fee	....	storyboard artist
Daniel Holland	....	production artist
Mark Cordell Holmes	....	art director: graphics
Angus MacLane	....	production artist
Angus MacLane	....	storyboard artist
Becky Neiman	....	graphics
Becky Neiman	....	production coordinator
Kevin O'Brien	....	storyboard artist
Peter Sohn	....	storyboard artist
Justin Wright	....	storyboard artist
Bruce Zick	....	visual development

Sound Department
Chris Barron	....	digital sound transferer (as Christopher Barron)
Ben Burtt	....	character voice designer
Ben Burtt	....	sound designer
Ben Burtt	....	sound re-recording mixer
Ben Burtt	....	supervising sound editor
Sean Byrne	....	sound re-recordist
Vince Caro	....	original dialogue mixer
Dustin Cawood	....	sound effects editor
Frank Clary	....	foley recordist
John Countryman	....	digital sound transferer
Teresa Eckton	....	sound effects editor
Coya Elliott	....	assistant supervising sound editor
Sean England	....	foley recordist
Jonathan Greber	....	digital sound transferer
E.J. Holowicki	....	additional sound designer
Bobby Johanson	....	additional dialogue recordist
Doc Kane	....	original dialogue mixer
Zach Martin	....	sound mix technician
Tom Myers	....	sound re-recording mixer
Al Nelson	....	sound effects editor
Juan Peralta	....	foley editor
Frank Rinella	....	foley mixer
Ronald G. Roumas	....	recordist
Kevin Sellers	....	foley editor
Michael Semanick	....	sound re-recording mixer
Tony Sereno	....	sound mix technician
Steve Slanec	....	adr editor
Clint Smith	....	sound recordist
Patrick Spain	....	assistant mix engineer
Dennie Thorpe	....	foley artist
Jana Vance	....	foley artist
Matthew Wood	....	supervising sound editor
Caroline Cannizzaro	....	foley recordist (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Frank Aalbers	....	crowds artist
Frank Aalbers	....	effects artist
Frank Aalbers	....	global tech
Alexander Adell	....	technical director
Josh Anon	....	crowd simulation artist
Alec Bartsch	....	technical director: shader
Chris Bernardi	....	senior shading artist
Tim Best	....	master lighting artist
Jason Bickerstaff	....	character modeling lead
Jason Billington	....	digital artist: ILM
Jeremy Birn	....	lighting technical director
Stacy Bissell	....	production coordinator: ILM
Stacy Bissell	....	visual effects production coordinator: ILM
Neil Blevins	....	digital artist
Dana Bonilla	....	key set production assistant (kerner optical )
Brian Boyd	....	master lighting artist
Stephan Vladimir Bugaj	....	shading technical director
Christopher M. Burrows	....	set shading lead
Gordon D.B. Cameron	....	production software engineer
Brian Cantwell	....	layout supervisor
Lanny Cermak	....	digital artist: ILM
Kai Chang	....	digital artist: ILM
Chris Chapman	....	development engineer
Chris Chapman	....	effects sequence lead
Jiayi Chong	....	crowd simulation technical director
Brian Christian	....	modeling artist
Bryan Cline	....	lighting optimization engineer
Marc Cooper	....	shading artist
Trent Crow	....	shading technical director
John Duncan	....	model maker
Simon Dunsdon	....	CG artist: pre-visualisation/layout/modelling
Sean Feeley	....	software development
Susan Fisher	....	rendering supervisor
Ziah Sarah Fogel	....	crowds lead
Christopher Lee Fowler	....	lighting technical director
Sarah Fowler Deluna	....	shading technical director
Carl N. Frederick	....	lightspeed technical director
Diego Garzon	....	effects technical director
Tolga Goktekin	....	visual effects artist
Eric Gregory	....	software development
Patrick Guenette	....	shading technical director
Christopher James Hall	....	visual effects production supervisor: Kerner Optical
Lou Hamou-Lhadj	....	character modeling and articulation artist
Nigel Hardwidge	....	supervising technical director
Mark Thomas Henne	....	crowds supervisor (as Mark T. Henne)
Kearsley Higgins	....	sweatbox manager
Edward Hirsh	....	visual effects supervisor: ILM (as Ed Hirsh)
Seth Holladay	....	effects artist
Richard E. Hollander	....	visual effects supervisor: live action unit (as Richard Hollander)
Greg Hyman	....	visual effects editor
Lucas Ives	....	technical development lead
Andrew Jimenez	....	digital artist
Jason Johnston	....	effects sequence lead
Thomas Jordan	....	technical director
Mike Jutan	....	shading technical director
Fran Kalal	....	shading technical director
Brad Kane	....	effects manager
Paul Kanyuk	....	crowds artist
Jae Hong Kim	....	technical director (as Jae H. Kim)
Jeanmarie King	....	visual effects producer: ILM (as Jeanie King)
Kristifir Klein	....	set modeling lead
Keith Daniel Klohn	....	development engineer
Keith Daniel Klohn	....	effects sequence lead
Mach Tony Kobayashi	....	visual effects artist
Tashana Landray	....	software development
Alison Leaf	....	set dresser
William Austin Lee	....	character modeler (as Austin Lee)
William Austin Lee	....	character rigger (as Austin Lee)
David MacCarthy	....	effects supervisor
Luke Martorelli	....	master lighting artist
Nathan Matsuda	....	visual effects
Paul McAfee	....	rendering manager
Ian Megibben	....	lighting technical director
Carlos Monzon	....	digital compositor
David Munier	....	sets supervisor
Shawn Neely	....	production engineering
George Nguyen	....	simulation technical director
Tom Nixon	....	effects technical director
Michael O'Brien	....	production engineering
Brandon Onstott	....	shading technical director
Eric Peden	....	rendering intern
Maxwell Planck	....	global tech
Maxwell Planck	....	shading technical director
Evan Pontoriero	....	modeler
Afonso Salcedo	....	lighting artist
Christopher Sanchez	....	technical director
Julien Schreyer	....	lighting artist
Gary Schultz	....	modeling artist
Manish Sharma	....	technical director intern
Sajan Skaria	....	technical director
Suzanne Slatcher	....	technical director
Keith Stichweh	....	technical director
Eunkyoung Lee Swearingen	....	lighting artist
Pat Tubach	....	digital production supervisor: ILM (as Patrick Tubach)
Gaston Ugarte	....	modeling technical director
Michael Van Eps	....	digital paint and roto supervisor
Esdras Varagnolo	....	lighting
Jeremy Vickery	....	lighting artist
Kiril Vidimce	....	software engineer
John Warren	....	technical pipeline supervisor
Bill Watral	....	effects artist
Dan Weeks	....	production engineering
Emma Weyerman	....	shading technical director
Andy Whittock	....	digital artist
Derek Williams	....	set dressing lead
Bill Wise	....	character supervisor
Wayne Wooten	....	rendering software engineer
Athena Xenakis	....	character shading lead
Bill Zahn	....	digital painter

Camera and Electrical Department
Mark Dinicola	....	camera operator: image mastering
Danielle Feinberg	....	director of photography: lighting
Robert Frey	....	vision engineer
Randy Jonsson	....	assistant camera
Jeremy Lasky	....	director of photography: camera
Martin Rosenberg	....	director of photography: live-action

Animation Department
Simon Allen	....	crowd animator
Dovi Anderson	....	crowd animator
Carlos Baena	....	animator
Alan Barillaro	....	supervising animator
Rodrigo Blaas	....	animator
Adam Burke	....	animator
Andrew Cadelago	....	layout artist
Shaun Chacko	....	animator
Chris Chua	....	fix animator
Louis Clichy	....	animator
Brett Coderre	....	animator
Don Crum	....	animator
Patrick Delage	....	animator
Arik Ehle	....	crowd animation lead
Doug Frankel	....	animator
Curran W. Giddens	....	fix animator
Kearsley Higgins	....	layout coordinator
Mark Cordell Holmes	....	computer graphics artist
George Hull	....	visual development artist
Steven Clay Hunter	....	supervising animator
Guilherme Sauerbronn Jacinto	....	animator
Nancy Kato	....	animator
Patty Kihm	....	animator
Ken Kim	....	animator
Robert Kinkead	....	layout artist
Todd Krish	....	animation simulation artist
Bruce Kuei	....	animator
Jaime Landes	....	animator
Holger Leihe	....	animator
Angus MacLane	....	directing animator
Michal Makarewicz	....	animator
Steve Mason	....	animator: additional animation
Ted Mathot	....	story artist
Paul Mendoza	....	animator
Sarah Mercey-Boose	....	animator
Victor Navone	....	animator
David Park	....	animation coordinator
Sukwon Park	....	layout artist
Jeff Pidgeon	....	story artist
Amber Rudolph	....	animator (as Amber Martorelli)
Brett Schulz	....	animator
Bob Scott	....	animator: end titles
Mark Shirra	....	layout artist
Raphael Suter	....	animator
Rob Duquette Thompson	....	animator
Kristoff Vergne	....	animator
Bob Whitehill	....	layout artist
Stephen L. Wong	....	crowd animator
Kureha Yokoo	....	animator
Tom Zach	....	fix and additional animator
Ron Zorman	....	animator

Editorial Department
Colin Bohrer	....	editorial manager
Noelle P. Case	....	editorial manager (as Noelle Page)
Terry Claborn	....	color timer
Jamie Datz	....	second assistant editor: Post Production Department
Axel Geddes	....	second film editor
Anthony Greenberg	....	first assistant editor (as Anthony J. Greenberg)
John Hazelton	....	projection
Jason Hudak	....	associate editor
Glenn Kasprzycki	....	media control transfer operator
Bill Kinder	....	director of editorial and post-production
Doug Nichols	....	editorial department manager
Kevin Nolting	....	additional editor
Jim Passon	....	color timer
Freesia Pearson	....	post-production assistant
Cynthia Slavens	....	post-production supervisor: video
Nicholas C. Smith	....	associate editor
Renee Steen	....	second assistant editor
Robert Tachoires	....	media control manager
Noah Newman	....	post-production coordinator (uncredited)
Kevin Rose-Williams	....	assistant editor (uncredited)

Music Department
Bill Bernstein	....	music editor
Julian Bratolyubov	....	music preparation
Ashley Chafin	....	music production coordinator
Donna Cole-Brule	....	music business affairs
Greg Hayes	....	score recordist
Jill Iverson	....	music production assistant
Carl Johnson	....	orchestrator
Tom MacDougall	....	music supervisor
Larry Mah	....	digital score recordist
Chris Montan	....	executive music producer
Leslie Morris	....	music contractor
Thomas Newman	....	conductor
Michael O'Donnovan	....	principal musician: bassoon
Andrew Page	....	music production manager
Thomas Pasatieri	....	orchestrator
J.A.C. Redford	....	orchestrator
Tim Rodier	....	music preparation
Patrick Spain	....	scoring assistant engineer
Armin Steiner	....	music recordist: orchestra
Siobhan Sullivan	....	music production assistant
Gary K. Thomas	....	orchestrator
Thomas Vicari	....	score mixer (as Tommy Vicari)
Thomas Vicari	....	score recordist (as Tommy Vicari)
Michael Ziner	....	assistant music editor (as Michael Zainer)

Other crew
Renee Adams	....	project manager
Kirsten Ames Staubli	....	assistant production accountant
Cassandra Barbour	....	rights and clearances
Bryan Bird	....	workaday technologist
Malcolm Blanchard	....	software developer
Susan Bradley	....	title designer
Jim Capobianco	....	titles
Alden Chew	....	software engineer
Per Christensen	....	RenderMan development
Daniel Combs	....	assistant: producers
Lars R. Damerow	....	systems administrator and support
James G. Dashe	....	systems administrator
Roger Deakins	....	visual consultant
Ross Dickinson	....	systems administrator
Brendan Donohoe	....	pre-production engineer
Tyler Fazakerley	....	systems administrator
Carl N. Frederick	....	lightspeed technical director
Remy Galang	....	systems administrator
Grant Gatzke	....	a/v engineer
Dominic Glynn	....	image mastering engineer
Susan Boylan Griffin	....	technical writer
Jon Hadden	....	systems administrator
Michael Hitson	....	facility technician
Katelin C. Holloway	....	management assistant
Ling Hsu	....	systems administrator
Jason 'Jayfish' Hull	....	systems administrator
Jose Ignacio	....	systems administrator
Ben Jordan	....	software engineer
Ryan Kautzman	....	software engineer
Jason Kim	....	software engineer
Chris Lasell	....	systems administrator
Mark Leone	....	senior software engineer
Marty Lew	....	systems administrator
Matthew Lindahl	....	systems administrator
David Lortsher	....	color grading operator
Aaron Luk	....	software developer
Meagan Miller	....	production assistant
Josh Minor	....	software engineer
BoB 'Naked BoB' Morgan	....	systems administrator
Terry Lee Moseley	....	lead system administrator
Olivier Mouroux	....	international publicity
Dennis Muren	....	visual consultant
Adrian Ochoa	....	character department manager
Cory Omand	....	software engineer
Silvia Palara	....	software engineer: tools
Elizabeth Palmore	....	coordinator: Recruiting Department
Peter Plackowski	....	system engineer
Martin Reddy	....	software lead
Kristina Ruud	....	finance and administrative department
Max Sachar	....	production assistant
Laura Sevier	....	rights and clearances
Burton Siu	....	software test engineer
Amanda Sorena	....	marketing
David Sotnick	....	systems administrator and support
Mike Sundy	....	systems administrator
Neil Tanner	....	teleprompter operator
Andy Thomas	....	systems administrator
Michael Todd	....	technical director
Erick Tryzelaar	....	rendering systems administrator
Rudy Vucelich	....	color calibration technician
Jay Weiland	....	systems administrator
Ian Westcott	....	systems administrator

Thanks
Mark Anderson	....	special thanks
David Fincher	....	special thanks
Leslie Iwerks	....	special thanks
Steve Jobs	....	special thanks
Kim Marks	....	special thanks
Harris Savides	....	special thanks
Justin Wright	....	in memory of

Production Companies

• Pixar Animation Studios
• Walt Disney Pictures

Distributors

• Audio Visual Entertainment (2008) (Greece) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (2008) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (2008) (Bolivia) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (2008) (Brazil) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (2008) (Chile) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista International (2008) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Buena Vista Sony Pictures Releasing (BVSPR) (2008) (Russia) (theatrical)
• Falcon (2008) (Czech Republic) (theatrical)
• Saturn Enternainment (2008) (Slovakia) (theatrical)
• Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Finland (2008) (Finland) (theatrical)
• Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (2008) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (2008) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (2008) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (2008) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (2008) (Sweden) (theatrical)
• Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (2008) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (2008) (USA) (theatrical)
• Gativideo (2008) (Argentina) (DVD)
• Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (2009) (Switzerland) (DVD)
• Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (2009) (Germany) (DVD)
• Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD) (Blu-Ray Disc)
• Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (2008) (USA) (DVD)
• Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (2008) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-Ray Disc)

Special Effects

• Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) (visual effects: live action sequences)
• Kerner Optical (practical effects elements)

Other Companies

• Apple  computer-generated voices courtesy of
• Corbis  images
• Deluxe  prints
• Entertainment Clearances  rights and clearances
• Getty Images  images (as Getty)
• Kerner Optical  live action production
• Newman Scoring Stage, Twentieth Century Fox Studios, The  music recorded and mixed at (as Newman Scoring Stage - Twentieth Century Fox Studios)
• Paramount Pictures Scoring Stage M  music recorded and mixed at
• Skywalker Sound  post-production sound services
• Sony Scoring Stage  music recorded and mixed at (as Sony Pictures Scoring Stage)
• Technicolor  prints
• Village Recorder, The  music recorded and mixed at (as The Village)
• Walt Disney Records  soundtrack
• Walt Disney Studios Negative Cutting  negative cutting

Also Known As:

WALL-E (USA) (alternative spelling)

Runtime:

98 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS-ES | SDDS | Dolby Digital EX

Certification:

Ireland:G | Australia:G | UK:U | Netherlands:AL | Brazil:Livre | South Africa:A | Canada:G | Iceland:L | Singapore:G | Malaysia:U | USA:G (certificate #44354) | Finland:K-3 | South Korea:All | Hong Kong:I | New Zealand:G | Argentina:Atp | Peru:PT | Sweden:Btl | France:U | Switzerland:0 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:0 (canton of Geneva) | Mexico:AA | Denmark:7 | Norway:7 | Portugal:M/6 | Philippines:G (MTRCB) | Germany:o.Al. | Czech Republic:U

Company:

Pixar Animation Studios

Trivia:

The sound of insect clicks was made locking handcuffs. The cockroach chirps were sped-up raccoon sounds. The wind sounds were Niagara Falls.

Goofs:

Continuity: Eve is up and awake when the Captain pushes the green button that starts the tape of Shelby Forthright's briefing. But as Wall-E creeps away from the screen toward Eve, we glimpse Eve still strapped to the cart that brought her to the bridge.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Voice in commercial: Too much garbage in your face? There's plenty of space out in space! BnL StarLiners leaving each day. We'll clean up the mess while you're away.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The 14th Annual Critics' Choice Awards (2009) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Down to Earth

One of the greatest achievements in cinematic history.

WALL-E, Pixar's latest film, is about a robot named WALL-E (or 'Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Earth-Class'), who is the only thing left on earth with some sort of emotion. He meets another robot named EVE, and the trip begins.

It's hard to describe in words how incredible I personally find this film.

The animation is flawless. Absolutely flawless. Especially on earth and the robots. It looks real. Much of the time it's impossible to tell whether or not it is real. The few slightly-shaky styled shots that appear a few times in the film only makes the animation that much more amazing and realistic. The humans are really good, too, while not realistic in the sense of you seeing it right now in real life, but they do have a realistic feel to them. The thing with the humans, I believe, is that they were purposefully meant to have this slightly rounded, slightly unrealistic feeling.

I believe the reason is to take a satirical look at humans, and what our goals for a future, perfect utopia, is. It questions what we want, and shows you what is a very, very likely outcome of our desires for a 'better' world, showing both positive and negative effects. The animation for the humans, I believe, was made rounded and slightly more cartoonish to emphasize that that is how we will become. Fat, lazy, yet so perfect. At times, especially with that perspective on the humans, they actually do look very real.

The story is brilliant. There are many little things in the film that have so much meaning to them. There are things that will be nostalgic to older viewers, and things that younger viewers will love to look at. However, it does steer for the cheesy, cliché aspects of a child's film, yet still remaining a completely G-rated film.

I don't call this a child's film at all. Not because it has adult material, because it doesn't. I say this because the film is perfect for everyone. Literally, everyone. There are things in it every person can enjoy, no matter who they are. It has obvious homages to Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey", and any adult who remembers seeing that film will notice this.

WALL-E is such a lovable character. I've never felt so much emotion for one character. He will definitely go down in history as iconic as Darth Vader, or Indiana Jones. I was so close to crying at pivotal parts in the film, and although I didn't fully break out and cry, I have never felt so much emotion in my heart with any other film as I did with this one.

EVE is very fun and interesting. One scene in particular, with her, was so beautiful, that my eyes got teary. Her chemistry with WALL-E is so oddly perfect. They are so different in appearance and personality, yet they work so well together.

The other robots are all lovable, except for the "enemy" robots, who still add much depth to the film. In particular, M-O was the cutest, obviously not counting WALL-E.

Pixar has always made great animation films. But this, without a doubt, tops all of their own film, and most other films. It restores faith in the animation films. It captures the magic and wonder as past Disney films, which is something I have not seen in most modern animation films.

I would not be surprised at all if this won for best picture of the year. It deserves it more than anything.

This is one of greatest achievements in cinematic history, and I encourage everyone to see this.

10/10