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It may have felt like we have been waiting forever but WALL-E has finally landed in the Southern Hemisphere and we are set to join the rest of the world in falling deeply in love with the little robot.

Sound effects supremo Ben Burtt explains how he makes machines sound almost human Ben Burtt speaks robot.

Wall-E isn't the first robot movie star. Here are some of his most memorable predecessors ... R2D2 Star Wars : Much more interesting than his brassy, fussy companion C3PO, the little guy can't speak English - ...

E.T., R2-D2, the light sabre and the cinematic stock sound effect, The Wilhelm Scream - are all Ben Burtt 's creations.

For all the computing power that animators employ these days, sometimes it's a simple sound that conveys the most emotion.

Andrew Stanton, the human behind 'Finding Nemo,' brings robot WALL-E to life. The film's mix of technology and spirit of silent films is a brilliant move by Pixar By Lisa Kennedy NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE, DENVER ...

E ***** DIRECTED BY: ANDREW STANTON VOICES: BEN BURTT, ELISSA KNIGHT, JEFF GARLIN, SIGOURNEY WEAVER, FRED WILLARD THE opening 45 minutes or so of the new Pixar film, WALL-E, provide what must surely be some of ...

Ben Burtt needs very little introduction. The multi Award-winning Sound Designer, Director and Editor has been working in his field since 1975 and has created some of the most iconic movie sounds of all time.

Burtt, sound and character voice designer for Wall-E and creator of the voices and sounds for the aliens and droids of Star Wars and the voice of ET talks about some of the challenges and joys of working on ...

Quick! Who played the title role in WALL-E ? If you answered " Ben Burtt ," chances are you're either a hard-core geek or someone who stayed for the credits and thought, "Who the heck is Ben Burtt?" Burtt, well ...

After years of tidying up an Earth devoid of humanity, a robot janitor meets a mechanical scout and chases her across the galaxy.

Earth, 2775. Humans long ago abandoned their trash-filled planet for sedentary life aboard Axiom, a luxury space ship.

E Review Posted by Chad Webb on 06.30.2008 They have topped themselves once again.

It's been reused so many times since it was first recorded in 1951 that its inclusion today is almost beyond cliche or inside joke.

The dialogue of the title robot mostly consists of beeps and chirps and the occasional electronically altered word -- just get Jim Carrey or Bruce Willis for one day's work, right? Well, except that even here, ...

Checkout this great video interview with Ben Burtt , the sound designer for Pixar's latest film WALL-E. If you are not familiar with Ben Burtt, he's the sound designer who worked on huge films such as Star ...

After years of tidying up an Earth devoid of humanity, a robot janitor meets a mechanical scout and chases her across the galaxy.

EVE, left, arrives on Earth, and sanitation 'bot WALL E is hopelessly smitten. He'll follow her into space and change a few humans in the process.

In this image released by Disney Pixar, Oscar-winning sound engineer Ben Burtt works in his office on "WALL-E," on Feb.

He won an Oscar for directing 2003's Best Animated Feature "Finding Nemo" and has been a vital contributor to several of Pixar Animation's films since "Toy Story" in 1995.