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{{quote|''[[Better Than It Sounds|An employee at a garbage dump abandons his job to pursue a woman he's just met.]]''
|'''[http://www.filmcritic.com/features/2010/11/accurate-but-misleading-movie-synopses/ John Scalzi]'''}}
'''''WALL-E''''', [[Pixar]]'s
Around seven hundred years in the future, humans abandon the [[Earth-That-Was|now-inhospitable Earth]] so it can be cleaned up by a small army of "Waste Allocation Load Lifter" robots ([[Fun with Acronyms|WALL-Es - the E stands for Earth]]) whilst they enjoy a five-year vacation cruise in space. The plan doesn't really work; seven centuries later, the last of those robots to still be running -- the titular WALL-E -- is still collecting junk and living with his pet cockroach. One day, WALL-E is going about his business as usual when a spaceship carrying a much more modern robot arrives to drop her off. Her name is EVE, and WALL-E is smitten at first sight. When the ship comes back and picks her up, he stows away.
Oh, and it's got ''[[Awesome Art]]'' [[Visual Effects of Awesome|CGI]].
''WALL-E'' was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2021.
For information about the DVD short, ''BURN-E'', check the [[Pixar Shorts]] page.
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* [[Acme Products]]
** A BnL logo appears ''after the Disney/Pixar logos in the ending credits'', hinting that the film could very well be one of their products as well.
*** [http://buynlarge.com/NewsCenter.html?storyId=34 North], the direction, is a brand of theirs. They call it [[A Worldwide Punomenon|"Directional Marketing"]]. Has the [[Carmen Sandiego]] company been absorbed so they ''can'' actually do that?
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* [[Only Sane Man]]: The Captain seems to be the only one aware of the pointlessness of this existence at first.
* [[Open Sesame]]: A machine requires voice authorization from the Captain (parodied when all he can say is "uhh" and the machine accepts it).
* [[Opposite Gender Protagonists]]: WALL-E and EVE. The romance delivered by the trope is as strong despite the leads being ''robots''. WALL-E, living on a deserted, trashed Earth for several hundred years, is more than happy to have some sort of companionship in the form of EVE. When EVE is shut down remotely and taken away, WALL-E follows, where the little guy attaches to a spaceship and goes to the Axiom, living with the rest of humans on the ship. It's a testament to how far the trope can be pushed and its applicability, as well as to [[Pixar]]'s storytelling ability.
* [[Opposites Attract]]: While Wall-E and Eve have many things in common (they both want the humans to set up a colony on Earth, so that not everyone will have to live on the Axiom, for example), Wall-E is undoubtedly the more naive of the two.
* [[Pac-Man Fever]]: Some how, an 830-year-old Pong console has survived the apocalypse. The humans on the Axiom are seen playing tennis with robots controlled by a variation of Pong, although it might have made more sense if they used a more [[Wii|current device]] made for the [[Wii Sports|purpose of sports]]. Then again, that would take more physical effort on the part of the humans.
* [[Post-Kiss Catatonia]]: WALL-E completely freezes the first time EVE "kisses" him. {{spoiler|Inverted in the ending: a kiss is what wakes him up}}.
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