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| Written by Michael Portantiere | |
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 WALL-E That film is Pixar's Wall-E, and its hero is a big-eyed little robot whose name is an acronym for Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Earth Class. When we meet him in a time many hundreds of years into the future from our own, Wall-E is doing his diligent best to clean up an abandoned, garbage-filled Earth, one trash-compacted cube at a time. Apparently, he's the only moving/functioning thing on the planet, thanks to his solar-power regeneration unit. His sole companions are – you guessed it! – the cockroaches, one of whom becomes his special pal. Wall-E's world is rocked with the thunderous arrival of a spaceship that leaves behind a sleek, white, state-of-the art, flying bot named Eve (for Extra-Terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator). She has been sent from the Axiom, a huge space station where the human race has taken refuge. Her purpose is to see if our planet, which had been completely trashed as a result of people's rampant over-consumption, is once again capable of sustaining life. When the smitten Wall-E finds a tiny, spindly plant that has somehow managed to grow in the long-toxic soil of earth and presents it to Eve as a token of his affection, she snatches it and is soon retrieved by the spaceship, which brings her back to the Axiom. Wall-E tags along for what turns out to be the ride of his life |
