Pixar's film coming out next summer.

Teaser trailer.

And I don't even have to log into the Admin area to rearrange it into alphabetical order.

The third, full trailer is out now.

Given the scene where Wall-E is watching TV, would this be the first time in a Pixar film that live action footage of humans has been used?

Not necessarily. Many Pixar trailers have featured material that was never intended for the film. The bit with Mr. Incredible having trouble putting on his belt due to his beer gut is a good example.

That wasn't live action. It was CGI, just like the rest of the film.

I think Gordon means that it might not end up in the movie.

Oh. Sorry.

WALL-E comes out tomorrow!

Well, my kid saw it last night and he paid full price!

lol, on Tuesdays its $6.50.



used to be $2.50...in the 70s.

I saw it on opening day.

Beautiful.

Perfectly written, and beautifully animated. It was everything I expected it to be from the trailers.

After the disappointment of Cars and Ratatouille, Pixar has redeemed itself, and it kinda makes sense that this film was created from the team that made the original Pixar features.

You gotta note the socio-economic attitude that Pixar says will ruin the earth.

BnL good buddy ;-)

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Some things I liked:

I liked the 2001 theme playing when the captain stands up.

I also loved the roaches live forever idea.

I enjoyed how the credits showed scenes of how things would/did end up after they get home. The rebuilding etc.

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Nit:

WALL-E's lunchbox should have fallen off his hook on his back.

Possible Nit:

While I don't really expect this to be included in a kids movie. I was curious how these people reproduce if they're so caught up in their moving chair tv's that they don't even notice each other.

Burn-E, a new short that's being included on the WALL-E DVD. It focuses on Burn-E, one of the small repairbots, and what happens to him in between the main scenes of WALL-E.

After WALL-E stows away on the transport ship that picks up E.V.E. from Earth, he rides it out of Earth's orbit. As it clears all the debris in orbit around Earth, one of the pieces of space junk that WALL-E clears is Sputnik. Why would Sputnik, which burned up in Earth's atmosphere three months after it was launched, or for that matter, a satellite that looked just as primitive as Sputnik, be in orbit around Earth so far in the future? (Obviously, it was an in-joke, or nod to Earth's first artificial satellite.)

The sign indicating that a BnL outlet mall was "Coming Soon" to the Moon was hysterical.

Why does the ship that transports the E.V.E. units to and from other planets need other, smaller ships to push it into the Axiom's hangar bay? Why can't it do this itself with maneuvering thrusters? Hell, our primitive space shuttles can do this, can't they?

Why did Go4 take the plant? This wasn't clear to me. Did Auto have him take it? When was there an opportunity for this to occur?

Why is the holoprojector whose purpose is to house the plant that will be scanned by the ship and cause the ship to return to Earth in a civilian area on the Lido Deck, instead of on the bridge?

Polls Voice: While I don't really expect this to be included in a kids movie. I was curious how these people reproduce if they're so caught up in their moving chair tv's that they don't even notice each other.
Luigi Novi: Probably in vitro fertilization or cloning. Having some mention of cloning in the scenes showing the kids (which would not have required any mention of sex that would've been inappropriate for a kids movie), would not only have explained this, but would've re-emphasized how disconnected humans had become from one another.

It was a bit unclear to me what precisely happened to the plant between EVE's arrival on the Axiom and the moment when Captain McCrea opens her up to see it's gone. I can gather that Auto and/or Go4 took it, but I'm clear on some of the specifics: First of all, who took the plant, when did they take it and why? It couldn't have been Auto, because there was not clear point when he could've done so without the viewer logically seeing it. Since Go4 is later established to be following the same directive Auto is, we can surmise that it was him, but when did he have an opportunity to do so? Even though WALL-E (and by extension, us), were separated from a moment or two from EVE when Go4 was taking her to the captain, I don't think there was enough time for him to stop at some location between the launch bay and the Captain's quarters, remove the plant, and then continue on to the Captain. Even if there were, why not just remove it in the launch bay? Why stick her on a gurney, go to the Captain, but stop halfway there to remove the plant if he knew in the launch bay that he had to take it out of EVE? Moreover, if he removed it, wouldn't we have seen it with him? They only way it makes sense for him not to have had it when we first meet the Captain is if he removed it from EVE while taking her to the captain, deposited it somewhere, and then went back for it to dispose of it. But if he was going to remove it and dispose of it, then why didn't he just do so? Why stash it somewhere, and then go back for it to dispose of it, if he knew his directive required him to get rid of it? (In a movie that is otherwise very tightly written, this seems to be the one plot hole created by the need to reveal information to the viewer, but only at a specific point, and not before. )

Also, why does Go4 stick it in an escape pod and program the pod to blow up? Isn't this a bit convoluted? Why not just dump it in the trash at the outset, as he later ended up doing? It's not like those giant trash bots appear to be programmed with EVE's directive, and would not eject a plant that they detected, right? (Unlikely, since there are probably plants aboard the Axiom.) In addition, programming the escape pod to blow up only presents a danger that the captain might detect the explosion, and realize that something fishy was going on.

And speaking of plants aboard the Axiom, why place so much emphasis on the plant that WALL-E found? Even if it were destroyed, can't the captain just take a plant from one of the ship's hydroponics or aeroponics gardens, and stick it in the holoprojector? Or is the holoprojector able to detect the difference between a terrestrial plant and one that comes from the Axiom? How would it? Wouldn't the DNA of both be the same, since the ones on the ship would be derived from seeds they took with them from Earth? Or did the holoprojector designers, botantist and quartermasters who provided the foodstuffs and seeds taken aboard the Axiom when it was first launched really think that far ahead, and really anticipate such a situation where sneakiness would be needed, and genetically modified the plants and seeds to exhibit some type of genetic difference marker so that the holoprojector could not be fooled?

After John and Mary meet, and during WALL-E and EVE's space dance, John and Mary spend an evening splashing water with their feet in a pool. When a bot comes by and admonishes the couple that splashing water is not allowed, John splashes water on the bot, causing it to short circuit spectacularly. Shouldn't a bot programmed to monitor pool activity be programmed to be, oh, I dunno........water resistant? This is would like designing a firefighter robot out of balsa wood and matches.