FromToy Storyin 1995 toToy Story 3in 2010, John Lasseter’s Pixar animation house produced 11 features, all winners and a few the very best films of their year. As the director of Finding Nemo, the studio’s biggest hit, Andrew Stanton had free run of his imagination forWALLE. (It’s likeThe Artist, but Nike Free Run stripped of intertitles and all but a few bars of music.) Stranded on Earth for centuries cleaning up the detritus of the vanished human race, robo boy WALLEmight be old Carl, the solitary widower ofUp, but soldiering on a poignant, irrepressible optimism. When this trash can Adam meets his sleek EVE (a robot sent to scour Earth for possible vegetation), they inhabit a sci fi cyborg romance for the ages.

As daring aurally as it Nike Free Run is narratively, the movie boasts a soundscape WALLE’s and EVE’s metallic conversation, the other machines and weapons, the scooting of a cockroach almost wholly created by Ben Burtt, Pixar’s audio Audubon, who in his years with Nike Roshe Run George Lucas invented the sounds of the lightsabers inStar Warsand the whip crack inRaiders of the Lost Ark.