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Set in a future where the Earth has become covered in trash, swept by monstrous¹, rumbling² dust storms and whose only bona fide wildlife is the cockroach³ (a literally⁴ running gag), "WALL·E" refers to our hero－a Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Earth class. The cute, mechanically chirping⁵ robot has been left behind to toil⁶ endlessly in the shadow of the planet's rubbish skyline, collecting garbage, compressing garbage, living his solitary⁷ life amid his amassed⁸ artifacts of bygone human society (a Rubik's cube, a flashbulb, a museum's worth of Zippo lighters).

It's embarrassing－is this what would be left of us? Meanwhile, a mass of humankind has been traveling through space for 700 years waiting for Earth to regenerate－and, thanks to the constant attention of robots, has been reduced (if that's the word) to morbid⁹ obesity¹⁰, sloth¹¹ and watching interactive¹² video screens. This is not the Enchanted¹³ Forest. It's too plausible¹⁴ for that.

Not everything here is original－the title character is a direct lift, physically¹⁵ and vocally¹⁶, from "E.T." It doesn't matter, however, because Eve, the Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator who arrives to collect plant samples and steal WALL·E's heart is a beeping, humming anime heroine.

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