ROTTEN TOMATOES: Exclusive: Pixar's and Stars' Favourite WALL-E Moments

Exclusive: Pixar's and Stars' Favourite WALL-E Moments

The key creative talent share their special scenes.

by Joe Utichi | July 14, 2008

The film is out in its home market, the dust has settled, and the word "masterpiece" is being bandied about with a rare amount of confidence by critics and audiences all over the world. Offering a chance for Wall-E's key creative talent to reflect, we asked them to share with us their favourite moments in the film. BE WARNED: Spoilers may follow and the uninitiated are advised to steer clear.

Sigourney Weaver - Voice of the Ship's Computer

I think my favourite moment is when you see EVE destroy that ship. She's my dream action-woman figure, because she's so off-handedly emotionally destructive. You don't really understand EVE until she giggles and her eyes do that funny thing and then you fall in love with EVE too. The fact that he's not intimidated by this gorgeous, sleek, destructive woman just gives us hope! And look how nice she is when he gets to know her!

Angus MacLane - Directing Animator

There's this beautiful shot of all of the robots from the repair ward running around the corner into each other that a few people animated that are just amazing.

The Crowds Team on this film was amazing, just so you felt like this world was alive with these background robots and humans.

Ben Burtt - Sound Designer/Voice of WALL-E

I really like when they're out in space together with the fire extinguisher. It's the lyrical nature of that -- the calm in the middle of the storm -- there's something about putting those two characters out there and having them dance around in space that really takes me back to Peter Pan when I was a kid. I loved the animated version -- I think I was five years old when I saw it and I made my mother take me two or three times in one week, which was unheard-of in those days.

It's that wonderful ability to be transported to a magical place that makes you feel warm and completely secure. When it occurs in the movie it feels that way for me. It's great.

Jim Morris - Producer

I think my favourite moment is when you see WALL-E go back to the truck he lives in - and he's still by himself, you haven't seen any other characters and you don't really know what's going on, you've had some clues about what may have happened. This robot character goes in and you suddenly learn all these things about his personality from the stuff he's collected. And the fact that he's watching Hello Dolly and that he does this a lot so that he's even dancing a little bit.

It's such a sad, bittersweet sort of thing. He's charming but it's so lonely and desolate at the same time. That scene really captures a lot of different things that the movie is about.

Andrew Stanton - Director

You do try to make every single sequence as good as you can, but I can say the sequence that is special to me -- because it was the first one where I went, "That's what I've been trying to get this whole time," -- it's a very small moment but to me it's one of the most powerful. It's when she's in the truck with him and she discovers what his lighter does. You catch him privately staring at her while she's looking at the lighter, and to me that was a kind of maturity in using the camera to tell so much emotion that I felt I always got out of great movies but never saw in animation and I felt we'd tapped into it.

WALL-E Week on RT and IGN

RT - Pixar's and Stars' Favourite WALL-E Moments

Sigourney Weaver, Angus MacLane, Ben Burtt, Jim Morris and Andrew Stanton share their most memorable moments from the film.

IGN - WALL-E Explained

Get an insight into the animation process as WALL-E Directing Animator Angus MacLane.

RT - Inside Pixar - A Photo Tour

Rotten Tomatoes' cameras are given a look inside animation mecca as Pixar opens the doors of its Emeryville, CA campus to us.

IGN - The Pixar Philosophy

Key WALL-E staff including Andrew Stanton, David DeVan and Derek Thompson tell IGN what it's like to work at Pixar.

RT - The World of WALL-E

To celebrate RT's freshest film of the year, we bring together eight WALL-E crew to talk about the film's journey from concept to completion.

IGN - At the Heart of WALL-E

Director Andrew Stanton explains, in his own words, why the WALL-E experience has been a special one and how he crafted the film.

RT - The Storyboards of WALL-E

Story Artist Derek Thompson gives RT readers an exclusive look at the storyboarding process on the film and shares some boards.

IGN - WALL-E UK Review

Critic Anna Smith delivers her verdict on Pixar's latest and adds to the film's fresh Tomatometer...

RT - Ben Burtt's WALL-E Sound Masterclass

The world's most renowned Sound Designer exclusively teaches RT readers the basics of building WALL-E's world of sound.

Related Items

Movie:	Hello, Dolly!
	Peter Pan
Celeb:	Sigourney Weaver
	Andrew Stanton
	Ben Burtt
	Jim Morris

(1-20 of 24 posts) | Reply

UCLASmrtGuy82 writes:
on Jul 14 2008 08:32 AM

I agree 100% with Jim Morris' favorite scene. I describe the first 15 or so minutes of "WALL-E" as nothing short of perfect. It is cute to see how WALL-E has fastened a sort of individuality and personality through the things he has collected, but at the same time there is a sadness is watching his loneliness unfold during the start of the movie.

(Reply to this)

RottenRob writes:
on Jul 14 2008 09:49 AM

My 4-year-old daughter's favorite part is when WALL-E dances for EVE and says "ta-da." My 2-year-old daughter says that's her favorite part, too, but that's just because she's copying, so it doesn't count.

My favorite part is when EVE gets caught by the electro-magnet and she basically destroys that whole fleet of ships. Also, I really liked when Nemo found his dad.

(Reply to this)

Tathum writes:
on Jul 14 2008 09:53 AM

My personal favorite scene in Wall-E...

Is where Eve sees the security feed of when Wall-E took care of her on Earth while she was shut down and waiting for retrieval. It's then she realizes exactly what love is and how she feels. From that point forward her directive no longer matters, only getting to and protecting Wall-E.

It's that kind of emotional scene that I've always loved about Pixar films that I think elevates them above any other Disney project. I believe it ranks up there with Finding Nemo's scene inside the whale and Monster's Inc when Sullivan sees the stills of himself scaring Boo...

(Reply to this)

Joe Utichi writes:
on Jul 14 2008 10:24 AM

I think I'm a fan of the moment in the elevator where EVE has a look of angry disappointment on her face. It flashes up "Warning: Rogue Robots" and WALL-E taps her on the shoulder and says "EVE-A!" and points. She glances up to blast the screen and goes back to looking angrily disappointed while WALL-E cowers in the corner.

(Reply to this)

RaygunRamone writes:
on Jul 14 2008 10:26 AM

I like the part when Eve says "Waaaalllll-Eeeeee" for the 100th time. Even better was when Wall-E screamed, "Eeeevvvvaaaa" for the 165th time.

Man, this film irritated me. Couldn't help but be sarcastic.

(Reply to this)

P'city Psycho writes:
on Jul 14 2008 10:34 AM

Have to go with Ben Burtt on this one. Magical scene. In fact, all the scenes with just Wall-E and Eve and no one else (and very little, if no dialogue at all) are signature moments of this movie. A work of art, this film.

(Reply to this)

Gimy writes:
on Jul 14 2008 10:37 AM

my fav scene was when i fell asleep...

Wall E = most overrated film of the year

(Reply to this)

Austen Andrews writes:
on Jul 14 2008 11:22 AM

There's a quick shot while Eve is dormant where the distraught Wall-e is staring silently at one of his blocks of trash. I seriously want that for my desktop.

(Reply to this)

Elixor writes:
on Jul 14 2008 11:52 AM

My favorite is when Eva and Wall-E are going to the Captain's chamber for the first time and they pass the robot that's slowly two-finger search-and-pecking on a keyboard full of 1s and 0s.

(Reply to this)

MrBaseman writes:
on Jul 14 2008 12:18 PM

Wall-E going back to his apartment thing with gadgets and stuff, that was an awesome scene.

Wall-E was the best film i've seen in a long time. Something about it, i dunno, just really connects emotionally.

(Reply to this)

goldmonkee writes:
on Jul 14 2008 12:34 PM

I like when they first try to say each others names.

(Reply to this)

EatingPie writes:
on Jul 14 2008 12:43 PM

When Wall-E is holding the ship as they pass the rings of Saturn, he reaches out and touches them, and the ice spins behind him.

His childlike wonder at the miraculous beauty of the Universe here... it reflects my own every time I look up at the stars, or gaze at images from space. The scene lasted just a few seconds, but it was so moving. And we see it again when Mary "awakens" and gazes out the window at the glory of the heavens.

These moments give a real depth to the line "I want to live, not just survive."

-Pie

(Reply to this)

LordOfQuarters writes:
on Jul 14 2008 12:57 PM

I've seen Wall-E four times now and I have to agree with the post above - the most beautiful, amazing, touching moment for me is when Wall-E is in space for the first time, and he is dazzled because he finally gets to see what he has been trying to look at all this time. And he pounds on the window and tries to get EVEs attention and points out at the wonder. And the best moment of that scene is when he is gliding beneath Saturn and he reaches up and touches the rings. Amazing. So amazing. This movie is so good.

(Reply to this)

rainfall writes:
on Jul 14 2008 01:43 PM

The scene where eve almost destroys the hello dolly tape and Wall-e quickly puts it back together and put's it in to see if it will still play his nervousness is captured perfectly while he waits for it to turn on.

(Reply to this)

xenogears writes:
on Jul 14 2008 01:54 PM

Wall-E was a great film for the children but am I the only one that noticed some stuff that was very incorrect. Like how they fly close to the sun and don't burn up, Or how he pulls the plant out in space and it doesn't flash freeze, or how a human beings with very little bone, who never get of there fat behinds are somehow able to stand and walk having not done it before. I liked the film overall, and i'm not really nit-picking cause a movie thats largly based on futuristic stuff should kinda have the regular stuff correct.

Again, good film, just a few errors. Nowhere near as many as indy 4. :)

(Reply to this)

blackchimera writes:
on Jul 14 2008 02:42 PM

I'm gonna have to agree with Ben Burtt on this one. The scene with Wall-E and Eve "dancing" through space was, for me, one of the emotional highlights of the movie. And Wall-E showing Eve how to dance was cute too.

(Reply to this)

LJPlayer69 writes:
on Jul 14 2008 03:08 PM

The first part of the movie, with Wall-E by himself (well, and the roach), are the best yet for any Pixar movie, and any movie this year alone.

I also have to agree about the time when EVE and Wall-E say their names, just WONDERFUL FUN...

The most emotional, at the end, when EVE frantically tries to, you know, and the spark...well, my scene.

(Reply to this)

DrNvrmore writes:
on Jul 14 2008 03:36 PM

I loved the movie... the characters, the way the story was told was pure genius and Pixar animation is still unmatched - but despite all that it was ruined for me "to some degree" by the political undertone of the movie: Walmart deystroys the world - Capitalism is the root of our destruction!

Typical Hollywood Hypocrisy - Walmart Evil/Hollywood Good - while the movie industries rakes in millions every year. Walmart buys stuff from China - Bad! Hollywood films all their movies just about anywhere but the United States - but they're Good? .... Sorry, Sorry... let my political views get the best of me (like every hollywood blowhard star does every chance they get).

Favorite Part: When Roach climbs into Twinkie... ha!

Sorry, again for the political rant... but I didn't delete it either.

(Reply to this)

N720MF writes:
on Jul 14 2008 04:33 PM

"Again, good film, just a few errors. "

I'm going to go ahead and say those don't matter at all.

(Reply to this)

Tlincali writes:
on Jul 14 2008 11:14 PM

My teenage son who is in the stage of disliking everything, was actually smiling several times through this movie.. even brought to tears at one point.

Great film.

(Reply to this)