WALL-E’s outer-space adventure in theaters Friday

Get used to this guy because he is going to be the most requested stuffed animal, LEGO set and probably Halloween costume of the year. Looking like the son of Short Circuit’s Johnny 5 and a pair of binoculars, Pixar’s WALL-E is about a high-tech janitor who gets left behind to clean up Earth when humanity departs to colonize the cosmos. But when a comely female probe droid is sent back to inspect the planet, WALL-E falls hard and hitches a ride on her rocket for a fish-out-of-water outer space adventure. Rated PG. (Courtesy Walt Disney Pictures)