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Analysis

Analysis

Symbols and Tropes

Hero's Journey

Ordinary WorldWALL-E lives in a world where a major big-box store (BUY-N-LARGE) has ruined the economy and garbage has destroyed the environment. It's supposed to be happening in 2110, but the way...

Setting

Earth, 2805 A.D.; AxiomNo Refunds or ExchangesWe only get one planet, and WALL-E shows us how badly we treat it. About 700 years before the movie takes place, a corporation called Buy-N-Large has t...

Point of View

Robots and Humans and More Robots, Oh MyWALL-E might claim the film's title, but the movie has two main POV characters—WALL-E and EVE (who commands almost as much screen time as our favorite tras...

Genre

Science Fiction, Children's Film, Romantic ComedyWhen WALL-E Met EVEWALL-E is a mishmash of genres as if WALL-E himself grabbed 2001: A Space Odyssey, Finding Nemo, and When Harry Met Sally and squ...

What's Up With the Title?

WALL-E is our main character, a little trash compacting robot, whose name comes from his model—Waste Allocation Load Lifter: Earth Class. The "Waste" is all the garbage that humans have left behi...

What's Up With the Ending?

Earth: The Final FrontierBoth WALL-E and a tiny little plant make a crazy round trip during the ninety-minute ride that is WALL-E. After the Captain blows up GO-4 (accidentally) and turns off AUTO,...

Shock Rating

GWALL-E isn't Starship Troopers. No aliens, no co-ed showers, no Neil Patrick Harris. All of WALL-E's most shocking moments are tempered with a joke, and the most traumatic moment—WALL-E's loss o...