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{{infobox Film
|director=Andrew Stanton
|writer=Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon
|music=Thomas Newman
|released=June 27, 2008
|runtime=98 min.
|website=http://adisney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/wall-e/
|imdb_id=0910970
}}
'''WALL-E''' is a 2008 [[Disney]]/[[Pixar]] film about a [[robot]], WALL-E, who is assigned to clean up [[Earth]] after mankind abandons it.
'''WALL-E''' is a 2008 [[Disney]]/[[Pixar]] film about a [[robot]], WALL-E, who is assigned to clean up [[Earth]] after mankind abandons it.
==Release==
==Release==
WALL-E was released in theaters June 27, 2008. It is scheduled to be released on [[DVD]] and [[Blu-Ray]] on November 18.
WALL-E was released in theaters June 27, 2008. It was released on [[DVD]] and [[Blu-Ray]] on November 18, 2008.
==Reception==
==Reception==
Reviews of WALL-E were overwhelmingly positive, garnering it a 96% "Fresh" rating at RottenTomatoes.<ref name="rt">[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wall_e/?name_order=asc WALL-E] at RottenTomatoes</ref> [[Roger Ebert]] called the film "an enthralling animated film, a visual wonderment and a decent science-fiction story."<ref name="ebert">[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080626/REVIEWS/963071290/1023 WALL-E Review] by Roger Ebert</ref>
Reviews of WALL-E were overwhelmingly positive, garnering it a 96% "Fresh" rating at RottenTomatoes.<ref name="rt">[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wall_e/?name_order=asc WALL-E] at RottenTomatoes</ref> [[Roger Ebert]] called the film "an enthralling animated film, a visual wonderment and a decent science-fiction story."<ref name="ebert">[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080626/REVIEWS/963071290/1023 WALL-E Review] by Roger Ebert</ref>
The film received 6 Academy Award nominations, tying [[Beauty and the Beast]] for the most nominations for an animated film.<ref>http://www.usnews.com/blogs/fresh-greens/2009/1/22/wall-e-earns-6-oscar-nominations.html</ref> It won the award for Best Animated Feature.
==Environmentalism==
==Environmentalism==
Many critics objected to the over-wrought environmentalist message in WALL-E, which suggests that consumerism could one day render Earth uninhabitable.
Many critics objected to the over-wrought environmentalist message in WALL-E, which suggests that consumerism could one day render Earth uninhabitable.