WALL-E (2008)
Next up in Pixar week is another movie listed amongst their best, WALL-E. The Movie: WALL-E is the 9th film in the Pixar library and the middle of their three "prestige" films. The movie was well-received, landing on many film-of-the-year lists. Time Magazine would eventually name it the best film of the decade. WALL-E did win the Oscar for Best Animated Film, but many observers felt it was robbed of a Best Picture nomination. (The omission of this movie and The Dark Knight was one of the driving forces behind the expanded Best Picture slate beginning the following year.) Set 800 years in the future, the title robot WALL-E is the last functioning unit of a fleet of trash compacting robots left behind to clean up Earth after it was abandoned by humans. WALL-E has gained sentience, and has begun collecting a variety of items, including a small plant. EVE, a probe droid sent out by the ship Axiom to find life, discovers WALL-E's plant, and her p...