Wall-E's city has total cloud cover with only the very occasional, and relatively small, opening. It's mostly dust, not water vapor, given its brown color. Since dust exists all over the world it's pretty much a certainty that this sort of cloud cover is present everywhere on Earth. Yet, when the planet is viewed from space, no such cloud cover is visible anywhere on the planet. Not even over Wall-E's home turf - at the start we see a shot of the USA, clearly visible from space, then we zoom through thick cloud cover that's appeared from nowhere. See more...
Because of Ben Burtt's work in the Original Star Wars Trilogy, the film was jokingly referred to as R2-D2: The Movie among the staff. See more...
Directed by Andrew Stanton (add more)
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The Zippo(C) lighter fluid would have evaporated and would not have ignited when attempting to light it. [Since this movie takes place in the future and we have no idea what the fluid in the lighter is, this isn't a mistake.]
Corrected by SexyIrishLeprechaun
The plant WALL-E found was in a dark fridge. It shouldn't be alive without water or light. [Seeds can sprout into small plants with leaves in total darkness as long as there's water. They can't grow into large plants, but they can sprout- and that's all the plant is at that point.]
Corrected by James King III
In the ship's waste room, there are countless massive piles of metal rubbish. Where is all that metal waste from? The sheer amount of it can't only be bits from broken robots/systems; since the waste is being compacted and released one big pile at a time, even 700 years worth of broken robot bits wouldn't amount to that mass with regular expulsion. [We only ever see the "passenger" area of the cruise ship. There could be massive mechanical systems (life support, the reactor, etc) that is hidden from public view but still needs replacement parts and still produces scrap.]
Corrected by James King III
When in the repair ward, a robot puts a load of make-up on Wall-E's face and then when he is in his 'cell', a Hoover-looking robot sneezes on him and the white powder is blasted all over his face. In the very next shot of Wall-E, the make-up is all gone. [There are several camera cuts between the application and removal of the make-up: first person shots, seeing other bots, etc: Each time we see Wall-E he has less and less makeup on and VA-QM has had enough time to clean him off.]
Corrected by James King III
EVE stands for "Extra Terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator" but she is evaluating terrestrial vegetation. Unless she was designed before the Axiom left Earth, it would make more sense for her to be named TVE. However, she has a very sophisticated design, so it is unlikely she was designed that long ago. Her name doesn't make sense in accordance with her design, but it is much more pronounceable. [Many organizations arrange their names or names of their products to make easily pronouncable acronyms, hence EVE and not ETVE or TVE. Also, as you mention, she was probably designed not too long ago. With the human population living on the Axion for 800 years the spaceship has now become their home world; everything outside the ship would be considered extra terrestrial.]
Corrected by BocaDavie
During the final fight between the Captain and Auto, the ship gets tilted and all the occupants slide to one side. Assuming that the inside of the ship has some sort of artificial gravity (given that, when outside, Wall-E and Eve experiment weightlessness), the pull would always be perpendicular to the ship floor, independent of the tilt of the ship relative to an external observer. There is no "up" in space. [This has previously been submitted and corrected, but apparently the original submitter removed the entry. It was decided that Auto had total control over all the ships navigational functions, including the artificial gravity. Auto must have adjusted the pull of the artificial gravity to keep everyone away from the device that would initiate the ship's return to Earth.]
Corrected by Phixius
The scooter that Skinner used in Ratatouille can be found in the trash pile early in the movie. [The entire opening third of the movie is set around piles of trash. If you're going to point out things of this nature, please take the time to make it clear exactly where this can be seen. "Early in the movie" is not remotely sufficient.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
At several points, Wall-E and Eve are speaking and making noises outside the Axiom. In reality, we shouldn't be able to hear anything. [This is a common moviemaking technique. We all know that there is no sound in space, yet we need to know what the characters are (trying) to communicate.]
Corrected by wizard_of_gore
WALL-E doesn't start recording "It Only Takes A Moment" until partway through the song. When he plays it back, however, it starts at the beginning, which is impossible since that part didn't get recorded in the first place. [He's been watching the movie for decades, and he watches it several times during the film, so it's not unreasonable to assume he recorded the full scene at a later time.]
In the end, when it is panning out to the credits, the shorter building in the middle reads "Buy O Large" instead of "Buy N Large" or BNL, as it says during the rest of the movie. [It's a circle with an N in it- a dark N, which probably means the red one fell off some time in the last 700 years.]
Corrected by James King III
The Captain is holding a globe. When he drops it, it falls to his right, but in the following shot, as he moves forward, the globe is shown hitting the floor on his left. [It slides off his right side, then bounces off the wall and rolls underneath him- by the time we see the wide shot, it's correctly on his left.]
Corrected by James King III
Wall-E only knows the name of the other robot as Eve-a (as he calls her throughout the film), but when lasering their names into the pole, he writes "Wall-E & Eve". Since he never saw her name printed (and never corrected his pronounciation) he should have carved "Eve-a". [The mispronunciation is not because he doesn't know her name, but because his "voice" has limited capabilities. he can't make a "v" sound without the "uh" after it.]
Corrected by JC Fernandez
In several scenes where one of the characters is holding a cigarette lighter, the tip of the flame is rounded but the reflection on the robots shows the flame coming to a point. [I've watched this movie four times and cannot see this error. Remember, it is a Zippo-style lighter; the flame is wider along the length of the casing and much more narrow along the width. The reflection of the flame may appear to come to a point as the angle between the lighter and the reflective surface changes.]
Corrected by BocaDavie
Auto sees the plant, and orders "A113" (the order to destroy the plant to prevent the ship from going back to the Earth) is flashed on his visor. Then why does Auto present the plant to the Captain, instead of destroying it right now without the Captain learning about it? [Auto never shows the Captain the plant. He has the helper bot (GO-4) take it from EVE before she can present it, and gets her sent to the repair ward. If he had tried to cover up the fact that EVE returned positive at all, he could have been found out; the ship was made to make a big deal of this and no doubt several logs were made as soon as she returned aboard. (Plus, EVE would know) Auto DID try to destroy the plant, using GO-4 and the escape pod.]
Corrected by James King III
Battery in the "car-alarm" can't live 700 years. [The evacuation occurred in our future. We don't know what kind of batteries they could have come up with. We don't have Wast Allocation Load Lifter technology yet either.]
Corrected by Phixius
The Law of Conservation of Matter appears not to apply to the Axiom. Large amounts of waste are dumped from the Axiom by the WALL-A robots, but matter cannot be created from nothing. Considering this was originally to be a 5-year cruise, all the supplies would have been consumed long before WALL-E returns 700 years later. [This overlooks the possibility that the Axiom (particularly its robots) doesn't harvest asteroids or planets automatically to provide raw materials. Order A113 proves that the Earth government knew that Earth might be unsaveable, so the Axiom must have been built knowing that it might never return.]
Corrected by Grumpy Scot
Wall-E is clinging to the starship and it flies near a star, which allows Wall-E to get a very good charge from it. Sadly, at that distance Wall-E would have melted down and its entire electronics would be fried due to solar radiation. Even being a robot, he was made to work on Earth, not outside it. [The fact that he doesn't melt down and receives a charge seems to dispute that. There are no specifications shown as to how toughly built Wall-E is.]
Corrected by Grumpy Scot
At the end of the movie, Wall.E compacts the whisk from earlier in the movie into a cube. But, EVE broke the whisk and, yet, the whisk is completely intact later on. [There is no way to know this was the SAME whisk as he had a LOT of repeats. He had an entire box of forks and another of spoons. We know this because of the funny scene with a spork.]
Corrected by Joshua Skains
When Eva and Walle are in the rain and Walle covers her with an umbrella, Walle is to Eva's left. When Eva goes over her security camera and watches Walle cover her with the umbrella, Walle is facing her. [The skin of Eve is complicated, as we can see the "search" lights work through the skin with no visible lenses. It is safe to assume the camera systems are fairly complex and 360 degrees of recording.]
Corrected by Joshua Skains
In the scene where Wall-E and Eva are flying through space together outside the ship and the fat characters see them, John first has a blue suit, and right after he is wearing a red one. [It is fairly well established the red/blue mechanisms in the suits were instant and seemed to change in many different conditions, so for all we know it kept changing.]
Corrected by Joshua Skains
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