WALL-E is an animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios directed by Andrew Stanton, who also directed Finding Nemo.
SPOILER WARNING: Plot and/or ending details follow.
WALL-E holding his Rubik’s Cube
In 2815, a robot which goes by the name WALL-E (Ben Burtt) has a gigantic task on his hand — to clean up the tonnes of trash left by the human. WALL-E, which stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class is the only remaining robots of its kind. Its job is to clean up the planet by compressing the trash into cubes and piling them into skyscraper-like towers.
Back in the 22nd century, the conglomerate Buy n Large (BnL) took charge of Earth from gas station to supermarket. Earth became so polluted it was no longer safe to live. In an attempt to keep humanity alive, BnL CEO, Shelby Forthright (Fred Willard) sponsored all humans an exodus to outer space aboard massive spaceships, the most famous of which was the Axiom, which left Earth in 2105. These spaceships supported every need for the humans with a fully-automated robot crew. Hundreds of thousands of robots, known as “WALL-E”, were left behind to clean up the planet but only one remain operational.
After collecting garbage for nearly 700 years, WALL-E becomes sensitive. He collects certain items from that trash including spare parts for himself from other inactive WALL-E units. However, he can hardly differentiate rubbish from precious items. He manages to save a seedling plant, which he replants in an old boot. He regularly watches a videotape of the 1969 classic, "Hello, Dolly!" which teaches him the act of holding hands.
One day, WALL-E meets a feminine probe sent from the Axiom, which seems hostile at first as her directive is to find plant life. WALL-E, later on gets to know the probe who introduces herself as EVE (Elissa Knight), which stands for Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator. WALL-E falls in love with EVE and tries to communicate with her. He introduces her to play bubble wrap, shows her his Rubik’s Cube, plays the musical film, "Hello, Dolly!" for her, and he even mimics the dance in the film. When he shows her the plant he found, she becomes excited and stores it inside herself and immediately deactivates. WALL-E tries to wake her up but to no avail. He protects her while she’s motionless, tries to hold her hand and even goes boat rowing with her until she is retrieved by the spaceship that delivered her earlier. WALL-E clings on to the ship as it departs into the space to Axiom.
After centuries of living in outer space, the humans aboard the Axiom are too obese and weak to stand or even move on their own without robotic assistance. Everything on the Axiom is automated including the ship, which is autopilot.
When EVE tries to present the plant to the Axiom’s commander, Captain McCrea (Jeff Garlin), she finds the plant is missing, and assumes WALL-E took it. Auto (the robot that controls the ship) tells Captain McCrea that EVE is faulty, thereupon she is sent to the robot repair ward with WALL-E, who is sent to be cleaned. When EVE is being diagnosed, WALL-E mistakenly think it is trying to hurt her and therefore he takes EVE’s cannon arm and accidentally shot the power source which frees all the malfunctioning robots. EVE and WALL-E are being labeled as hostile by the security and are being chased by security robots. EVE tries to send WALL-E back to Earth using an escape pod, but WALL-E refuses to leave without her. Auto’s assistant, GO-4, suddenly comes and dumps the missing plant in the pod in order to destroy the plant and keeps the people in the Axiom. The pod is launched by GO-4 and self-destructed. Devastated, EVE thinks WALL-E is dead only to feel relieve both WALL-E and the plant are safe as WALL-E has cleverly uses a fire-extinguisher to propel himself. She gives WALL-E a “kiss” (an electrostatic discharge), and they dance around the ship, flying together through space.
EVE sneaks up the garbage chute to the bridge and returns the plant to Captain McCrea. Curious to see images of Earth, McCrea projects EVE’s security camera footage, which shows EVE the lengths to which WALL-E went to protect her while she was deactivated, and she begins to fall in love with him. Having been fascinated by earlier images depicting life as it was before the rise of BnL, Captain McCrea is shocked by the environmental devastation on Earth depicted in EVE’s recordings, and decides that humanity must return to Earth to make amends. However, Auto insists that they cannot return to Earth, and is forced to reveal that Shelby Forthright ordered the autopilots never to do so, having deemed the planet too toxic to ever support life again. Unable to disobey the order, Auto stages a rebellion, locking McCrea in his quarters, and tries to dispose of the plant. When WALL-E takes the plant from him and refuses to relinquish it, Auto forcefully shocks him and temporarily deactivates EVE, throwing them both into a garbage chute along with the plant.
EVE awakens in the waste disposal facility of the Axiom with WALL-E and the plant, and they are compressed into cubes of trash by WALL-A (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Axiom class), a WALL-E lookalike, except it’s bigger and has three eyes. They are nearly thrown into space, but M-O, who has continued to clean up WALL-E’s tracks, saves and befriends them. EVE finds that WALL-E’s circuit has been damaged by Auto’s shock and searches in vain for replacements, even dismissing her directive of returning the plant to do so. WALL-E, however, insists that EVE carry out her directive while reminding her of the spare parts he had accumulated on Earth, which may be able to save him. With the plant, EVE carries WALL-E and M-O out, and they recruit the malfunctioning robots to help get past security and make their way to the deck of the ship while aided by Captain McCrea.
McCrea manages to trick Auto into believing he has retrieved the plant, and ending up battling with Auto before Auto tilts the ship on its side, throwing the humans to a corner. EVE tries to save the humans while WALL-E attempts to hold the Holo-Detector opens by jamming his body inside. Captain McCrea manages to stand up unaided to manually overrides Auto, thus, taking control of the ship. The humans and robots work together to place the plant in the Holo-Detector, releasing the heavily damaged WALL-E and activating the hyperjump back to Earth.
Having reached Earth, EVE frantically repairs WALL-E with his spare parts, successfully reactivating him. However, WALL-E seems to have lost his memory when he begins crushing his treasured collectibles into cubes, following his original directive. Heartbroken, and believing that the WALL-E she knew and loved is gone forever, she takes hold of his hand, softly hums the song “It Only Takes a Moment”, and gives him a parting kiss. The resulting spark reboots WALL-E’s memory, and he suddenly recognizes her as they clasp hands in joy and kiss once more. Captain McCrea, meanwhile, led the human and robots to restore Earth’s biosphere by teaching the kids to plant trees.
Overall, the movie is incredible, funny, touching, romantic, heart-warming and yet, meaningful. Perhaps, it is not too late to save the Earth.
My ratings: 9 out of 10.
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