WALL-E



On our regular episode this week, we were delighted to watch the Disney-Pixar film WALL-E! This film is fun and you have to kind of remind yourself for a film you haven't seen a while of the WALL-E movie summary let alone what the WALL-E acronym actually stands for, who is included in the WALL-E movie cast, especially the surprising Auto voice, as well as learning and taking a look at the WALL-E awards that were earned when this animated film came out. So join us these week as we explore these topics and more by listening to the full episode or reading our notes below!

WALL-E Movie Summary

The film starts out with a lone robot on what appears to be desolate and deserted planet Earth. WALL-E, the lone robot, is still performing his duties as a trash compactor essentially. However, along the way it seems that he's evolved and has developed a personality. He collects trinkets he finds intriguing, watches the film Hello, Dolly! (even tries to dance like them in the film).

He is then surprised by the arrival of a robot which the audience learns comes from a human ship called the Axiom (one of the ships that left Earth when the planet was close to becoming to a point where sustaining life was not viable). The robot that arrives though, EVE, eventually meets WALL-E. They exchange pleasantries for a while and WALL-E shows her around and shows her his trinkets. However, once he shows EVE a plant, she completely shuts down. We learn that this was the robots mission all along, to see if life had begun again on Earth.

A smaller ship comes to pick EVE up to take her back to the Axiom, but WALL-E was determined to stay with her and so he joins the ride in order to arrive to the human populated ship. But EVE and WALL-E have trouble trying to finish EVE's programmed mission of delivering a surviving plant as it is stolen; therefore, preventing the humans knowing that traveling back to Earth is a possibility.

EVE and WALL-E eventually find out that the ship and the captain's first mate who is a robot himself, has been programmed not to return to Earth, even if life was found to be recovering. Apparently the decision was made when the humans first left as they thought there was completely no hope for the planet.

However, with the heroism of EVE and especially WALL-E along with the help with some of the humans on the ship, they are able to program the spaceship to return to Earth to begin recolonizing.

WALL-E Acronym and EVE Acronym



So were you wondering why the main character

robots are called by their designated names?

Well, WALL-E actually stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter: Earth Class.

I suppose they didn't want to include the 'C' in there, which I don't blame

them, that wouldn't have sounded as good of a name.

Then, EVE actually stands for Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator.

This name makes sense as she is sent down to the planet to search for

potential life on a planet to ultimately see if colonization is possible.

WALL-E Movie Cast

Robot Cast:

Wall-E Voice by...

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Ben Burtt is the voice of Wall-E in this film. While the character himself doesn't say much (since he is a robot), we think he was spot on with conveying the motion with limited sounds he can make for the robot. But really, Ben Burt is more of someone who does sound design on films, including this film. Other notable films he was sound designer on were many of the Star Wars films (thank Ben Burt for the lightsaber sound "Vrooom" in our childhoods),