In keeping with my long-standing tradition, I am summarizing what I know about Wall•E from the previews I have seen. I actually wished I knew less than I already do; I loved the completely barren teaser, but now I know about some of the other spaceships and characters in the movie. But I’m getting ahead of myself.…
1. Wall•E is voiced by the legendary Ben Burtt, one of the original Star Wars Nine.
2. He is all alone on Earth, the last of a series of robots tasked with cleaning up the waste that humans have left behind. (Side note: I will forgive the preachiness if I see him cleaning up a mountain of Toy Story 2 DVDs…or better yet, Blu-ray discs.)
3. He meets a female robot (called Eve?) who shows up in a sleek white spaceship.
4. Wall•E and Eve hold hands and have other misadventures on Earth.
5. He tags along when the spaceship leaves Earth unexpectedly.
6. There is a romantic zero-G cruise around the spaceship.
7. An obese man is wearing a traditional white sailor’s uniform.
8. Apparently, Wall•E gets stuck in an assembly line, and ends up wearing makeup.
9. There is some interstellar city or space station.
Okay, I think that’s about it. From what I hear, the trailers don’t really give away anything about the plot, so I am curious to see the actual movie. I am also cautiously optimistic, though not nearly as excited as (apparently) everyone else in the world.
