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Wall*E Rated G (June 27) |
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What's the Story? Disney/Pixar's new animated tale takes place in the year 2700. Wall*e, a tiny trash-compacting robot, is the last one standing after everyone else abandons a garbage-filled Earth for outer space. Wall*e (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Earth class) continues to make cubes out of trash for 700 years with no one but his sidekick, a pet cockroach, to keep him company. Wall*e feels lonely, until he meets EVE, a shiny white robot with glowing eyes, that's sent back to Earth to check on the progress of the clean-up. WALL*E falls instantly in love. Neither character speaks, so animators were faced with a big challenge. "Their movements had to be very subtle," lead animator Angus MacLane told TFK. "The funniest stuff happens when they don't move around a lot." Did You Know? There are no speaking parts in the movie. Most of the characters are voiced by Ben Burtt, a sound designer who created the voices and sounds for many of the characters in Star Wars, including Chewbaca, and the robot R2D2. |
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Photos: Disney - Pixar
