Wall-E

‘The subject was born 14 years ago after a lunch with Pixar pioneers John Lasseter and Pete Doctor,’ explained Stanton, who won an Oscar for Finding Nemo. ‘We wondered what would happen if mankind evacuated the Earth and forgot to turn off the last robot. I was obsessed with this story, but we weren’t technically ready. The studio first had to prove itself on other projects, and audiences had to trust us enough to embark on an adventure in which the first thirty minutes are dialogue-free, punctuated only by Ben Burtts sound inventions’. And then the magic happens, goosebumps on steel skin, because Wall-E has the beating heart of a Charlie Chaplin and rusty iron features as impassive as Buster Keaton’s." (Emmanuèle Frois; Le Figaro)�