When Pixar first started working on “Wall-E” several years ago, the studio considered making the animated movie -- about a lovable robot on a future Earth -- without any dialogue at all. As the film’s ...

This is a revision of an earlier posting. The new Pixar picture Wall-E is one for the ages, a masterpiece to be savored before or after the end of the world — assuming, like the title character, ...

The fact that Wall-E does all of this without ever losing its family-friendly sheen is a testament to the skill of its creative team. That said, once Wall-E abandons the silent-movie-inspired romance ...

If you thought Nemo and Buzz Lightyear were cute, brace yourselffor WALL?E, one of the most endearing characters, robotic or otherwise, ever tograce a movie screen. With its newest CG-animated ...

'Wall-E', now 10, is a conversation between the past and present of cinema. By Richard Newby “Put on your Sunday clothes, there’s lots of world out there.” There are few riskier and more unexpected ...

With the world teetering on the brink of sci-fi dystopia, it’s perhaps a good time to revisit our imaginary post-apocalyptic futures. The 29th-century Earth of WALL-E presents one of the more ...

Imagine typing this phrase into a blank computer screen: “a bowl of soup that looks like a monster.” A few seconds later, a creature knitted out of wool—and bathed in soup—could be smiling at you.

The Verge is a place where you can consider the future. So are movies. In Yesterday’s Future, we revisit a movie about the future and consider the things it tells us about today, tomorrow, and ...

In high school, “Wall-E” director Andrew Stanton played the shy Yonkers store clerk Barnaby in the Jerry Herman musical “Hello, Dolly!” Decades later, two of the show’s lesser-known songs would play a ...

Thanks to WALL-E, we now know two things that will survive the apocalypse: cockroaches…and Hello, Dolly! In the Pixar hit, a videocassette of the 1969 movie musical survives centuries of decay and ...