After the breath-of-new-life that Ratatouille gave them, Pixar look to raise the bar as they bring a science-fiction setting to their next movie.
Plot
The year is 2700. Planet Earth is one giant trash heap, and an incompetent corporation called Buynlarge has the contract to clean up the mess. Buynlarge sent thousands of robots, called
Waste
Allocation
Load
Lifters -
Earth Class, to do the job but unfortunately they all broke down over the past 700 years. Save for one.[
1]
WALL•E, a robot, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will discover what he was meant for.[
2]
New Trailer:
Anticipation: ****
I like the looks of this. It's strangely ambitious for a pixar title; with a huge chunk of the film without dialogue, and the setting isn't really something pixar have tackled before. But the visuals are stunning, and the robot adorable. I think they could be on to (another) winner here.
ETA: 18th Jul '08