WALL·E is the last robot left on an Earth that has been overrun with garbage and all humans have fled to outer space. For 700 years he has continued to try and clean up the mess, but has developed some rather interesting human-like qualities. When a ship arrives with a sleek new type of robot, WALL·E thinks he's finally found a friend and stows away on the ship when it leaves.
You'd have to be a machine for your heart not to melt.
– David Ansen,
Newsweek,
8 Jul 2008
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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.
– David Denby,
New Yorker,
14 Jul 2008
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Among its many wondrous achievements, the animated WALL-E is a sci-fi trifecta: a vision of the future, a tale for our times and a blast from the past.
– Joe Williams,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
18 Oct 2008
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The most consistent production unit in Hollywood just hit another home run.
– Tom Charity,
CNN.com,
18 Oct 2008
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I wonder a little what kids will make of the long silence of the first half followed by the disorienting mania of the second, but there's nothing here that's not wonderfully imagined and lovingly presented.