WALL·E

ANGUS MacLANE: I just want to point out right away

that there would never be any singing in space.

You would never heart his.

In space, no one can hear you sing?

That is totally true.

Wow, you could put that on a T-shirt.

Yeah.

There is actually a pretty nice counterpoint

with the opening song here and these images of space.

You know, speaking of science, you know,

that galaxy is rotating really fast in the beginning.

You would never see that.

Well, I think it's a time-lapse thing.

It's like one of those... You know, like the old Disney...

We're sub-light. Look, we're sub-light here. Okay?

Sub-light? Is that some... What is sub-light?

What's a sub-light?

Not light speed, less than light speed.

-Sub-light. Oh. Thanks a lot, Asimov.

You know, this isn't a live-action picture,

so you can't, you know,

limit the camera to the physics of real space.

See, look, nuclear power. Nuclear power.

You're gonna start there? You're gonna start there?

You're just gonna lower the bar right down...

And excuse everything from here on out, is what you're saying.

Well, we have to.

We're climbing upwards at this point in the film.

So, this is 700, 800 years of..

They don't know that yet.

Will you hush?

This is similar... No spoilers, right?

We shouldn't give anything away in advance.

Hopefully, this is not the first time

they're seeing this film with this commentary.

Yeah, yeah. If you're watching this film now,

and you haven't seen it without commentary...

Maybe they accidentally...

Stop, go back. Stop, go back, watch it.

Spoilers ahead!

Spoilers alert. You're beyond the spoiler zone.

You know what a spoiler is, don't you, Lindsey?

I do. Thanks for asking, though. Thanks for checking.

Okay, good. I just wanted to make sure that's clear.

I thought we were clear we weren't mentioning names.

So that's WALL-E.

What does WALL-E stand for, Derek?

"Waste Allocation Load Lifter, Earth-Class."

Angus.

That's pretty nerdy.

Actually, the acronym changed a couple of times

because a second "L" was added midway through the production, so...

Why was that?

It's because everybody was worried

that people would mispronounce the title as "Whale"

without the second "L". I'm serious. We had to add...

Are you sure that's the... Was it a pronunciation thing?

Further putting forth our environmental message.

It was a pronunciation thing.

All right. - It was a pronunciation thing.

They were like, "Everybody's gonna mispronounce it and call it 'Whale ', "

which is not nearly as endearing or charming,

and slightly misleading, frankly, a film called "Whale."

And that is endearment personified right there.

That's our little friend.

I gotta say, there's no way

the hubcap would still be that pristine...

And shiny. If it was crunched into a cube?

Yeah. Well, nobody's used an automobile

for 700, 800 years.

So, is that actually an Igloo?

-Did you talk to the Igloo people? Yeah.

-And you got their cooler... - Yeah.

Made sure everything was... Oh, that's good.

So, are you gonna be this guy through the whole thing?

What? No, I'm not that guy.

I have a little bit of a back story for Hal the cockroach.

Can you tell me, Angus, how Hal got his name?

I believe it was Reardon who wanted to call him Hal. Is that right?

-HAL the computer or... No, you're incorrect.

-Hal Roach? Hal Roach. - It was for Hal Roach.

Filmmaker, made a lot of Little Rascals shorts in the '30s.

It could work on the "HAL the computer" level, too, I suppose.

A lot of acronyms in this movie.

Yeah, it was a double nerd reference,

which is important for any of our jokes.

Right, right.

There's gas. And in the future here,

money is just like on the streets.

So although no one is around and it's totally lonely,

there's tons of money, which is nice.

And this is a perfect opportunity

to point out the copious amount of dystopian versus utopian worlds

we're gonna see in this movie.

And that is a recurring theme in a lot of science fiction movies that we love,

but this sort of dystopian future, this trashed world...

Not for my benefit, but for our watchers...

We all know what you mean.

What is the difference between dystopian and...

Will you please define "dystopian" for the...

Dystopian is a...

Are you gonna be like Mr. Professor this whole...

I think that's about the size of it.

Let him finish.

He asked the question. So, "dystopian"?

Dystopian is a bleak vision of the future.

Utopian is an optimistic vision of the future.

There's a contrast there. There is a contrast.

-We have both of those things. - We do have both of those things.

And I'll remind us later, when we get to it.

I will point it out. I would like to point out...

I don't know how those trash piles go into boxes there,

so that doesn't make any sense to me.

Well, I know that Ralph and his team figured out

-the mechanics of the sequence... Oh, no... Yeah.

-It's incinerated. ...all of the incinerated...

Oh, it's going the opposite direction.

Yeah, they go down.

They're going into massive incinerators.

Oh, I was seeing it wrong. I was seeing it wrong.

They put a tremendous amount of thought

into the mechanics and the procedure.

For one shot. For one shot.

But you know what? It's that kind of thorough planning that makes...

That makes these movies cost $150 million.

Exactly. They put a little twist on it.

You know? It's called verisimilitude, Lindsey.

It's bringing a level of truth to this. Oh, there's a little glimpse of utopia.

This is great, yeah.

I just love that this is our live-action.

Right. The introduction of live-action.

There it is.

We've crossed the line.

That's Andrew Stanton the director's

daughter there on the right.

Little-known fact.

The Axiom. Putting the star in executive star liner.

Fred Willard, you did a great job. Thanks.

He was fantastic. - He's funny.

He was. He was hilarious.

I wouldn't stand that close

if that spaceship was taking off though, so I don't...

But it's supposed to be fake in the commercial.

It's not supposed to really be taking off

It was a green screen. - Oh.

It's like, you see something... It's a commercial.

No, no, no, that thing's huge.

I mean, you know, people stand around

watching the shuttle take off

Yeah, but they're miles away. That looks like he's like right there.

That thing is huge. It's a commercial.

-It was supposed to be fake. Do you not remember?

So you mentioned the Igloo earlier...

I guess we can agree to disagree.

How many other real life objects

or products are in WALL-E's trailer?

I think there's actually five.

Many. Many?

Five or six, baby.

Five or six actual objects?

And that doesn't count as a pop culture reference, right?

-That's more of a... It's a dystopian answer.

It's an anchor to a world we know.

I mean, this is the closest a Pixar movie probably has come to

being anchored in a real world, right?

I mean, 'cause there's real-world stuff in here.

I think you're right, Derek.

Well, there's a lot of films...anyway.

Well, there's a lot of real-world stuff in here.

I gotta say that there's no way that, that toaster is plugged in.

Oh, Hello, Dolly!

It was great. When we started this movie...

That's a Brazil, you know. That totally reminds me of in Brazil,

when, you know, they have the little screens

and they have the big magnifying glass.

Right, right. But Hello, Dolly! was in it all the way along.

All the way along.

And it's actually what dictated us using live action.

Yep, we were trapped. - Because we were trapped.

We were backed into a corner and had to use live action,

since we had the Hello, Dolly! footage.

Yeah. Many people are trapped by the vision of Hello, Dolly!

Hello, Dolly! has two great songs in it,

and that's the two great songs.

No, no, it has three great songs.

Really? What's the third great song?

'Cause I don't know the songs well enough.

Well, I know Louis Armstrong pops up in there.

Can't hold a candle...

It Only Takes A Moment. I don't know.

It can't hold a candle to Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

I'm really more of a Cabaret fan myself

Look at you guys with the musical knowledge.

Yeah, we brought the wrong geeks in here.

Seriously, I have not that much knowledge about anything.

You guys have more knowledge about this stuff..

No, no, no. - ...than I have about anything.

But get this. In Japan, they have a term called otaku,

which means a disproportionate enthusiasm or obsession

with a given thing,