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Countdown! 20 Hotshot Movie Robots

Optimus Prime is back -- and in good company on our roll call of beloved big-screen mechanical men (and fembots); see where he ranks

By Gary Susman | Jun 26, 2009
Gary Susman
Gary Susman
DVDs | Home Video Products | Media Products | Movies | WALL-E

WALL-E

The hero of Pixar's animated feature is a lonely, trash-compacting robot on an abandoned Earth who pines for a newly arrived probe droid named EVE, speaks in R2-D2-like beeps and blurps, and has a binocular-shaped head that gives him an unfortunate resemblance to Johnny 5, the robot in the much-reviled Short Circuit movies. But his heartfelt emotional journey earns him a place on our list of favorite movie robots. Click through the gallery that follows to see his synthetic partners in shine.

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