WALL-E Movie Preview

Writer/director Andrew Stanton made a batch of fish into creatures we fell in love with and rooted for in Finding Nemo. Now Stanton's back after a five year break in directing with WALL•E, the latest CGI animated family-friendly movie from the Pixar braintrust. Pixar's string of hits is impressive, and if any production company can make a robot into a character audiences embrace as though it was made of flesh and blood and not metal and bolts it's Pixar. They even managed to make rats into adorable critters we wouldn't mind sharing a kitchen with...

But there is one thing about WALL•E I'm having a hard time getting past. Doesn't the main character in WALL•E look a lot like Number 5, the robot featured in the 1986 comedy Short Circuit? Hopefully the character's personality will be totally original and it's just the look that's similar.

Synopsis: After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL•E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans (who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home). Meanwhile, WALL•E chases EVE across the galaxy.

WALL-E begins exploring our universe on June 27, 2008.

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