New Wall-E trailer

Posted by Chris

March 12, 2008

There’s a final, theatrical trailer for Disney/Pixar’s Wall-E that’s been released and which you can now view.

It’s certainly the most well-rounded trailer to be released so far in that it gives looks at the biggest chunk of the movie. There’s familiar footage of Wall-E traipsing around a littered, polluted Earth that we’ve seen in previous installments but this new one expands into what happens when a strange craft lands and Wall-E gets whisked away, eventually encountering the human remnant that’s flying around space 700 years after abandoning the planet.

I’m going to try to do this justice and Peter Chattaway would probably have something to say on this matter as well, but the Judeo-Christian overtones in this trailer – and seemingly the movie as a whole – are pretty hard to miss. We see Wall-E, after being described as lonely, folding his mechanical hands as if in prayer, a prayer which apparently answered when the craft, bearing a fellow robot named Eve, lands in front of him.

And then there’s this idea that Wall-E is there to save the chosen people, a designation that seems to apply more aptly to the robots he winds up leading than the humans. The one clear shot we get of a real person it’s of someone ordering Wall-E be captured. So it’s pretty easy to read Moses-parallels as well as shades of the splitting of the 12 tribes of Israel into this, depending on the direction the final movie takes this in.