Wall-E (Single-Disc Edition)
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Actor: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin, John RatzenbergerDirector: Andrew Stanton
Brand: Disney
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-11-18
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: WALT DISNEY VIDEO
Product features:
- The highly acclaimed director of FINDING NEMO and the creative storytellers behind CARS and RATATOUILLE transport you to a galaxy not so far away for a new cosmic comedy adventure about a determined robot named WALL-E. After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, the curious and lovable WALL-E discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. Join them
DVD Reviews of Wall-E (Single-Disc Edition)
DVD Review: The Last Robot on Earth... Is Not Alone!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Day the Earth Stood Still
From a view of deep space, a familiar voice starts to sing a familiar old song from a familiar old musical, as the song builds, the camera zooms in on the Earth, then fades out till you see that it's coming from a tiny little robot all olone on a wasteland Earth of the future. Thus, in the first moments of the new animated film from Pixar, you get an immediate feeling of...awkward weirdness. This move is not what you would expect. Sure, there's fantastic animation from the server farms at Pixar, cuteness galore, and a family-friendly, feel-good story to be found. However...
For the first half-hour or so there is only one character to be found, the namesake of the film, a cute little robot who goes about his day compacting trash, and stacking it into SKYSCRAPERS of crushed garbage, all the time collecting knick-knacks and entertaining himself listening to his music from his favorite musical, which he watches in a little robot home he has fashioned. Really, all this is just to give us a very strong picture of what the world has become and what the personality of our pint-sized hero is. His treads roll through the abandoned metropolis where giant stores and billboards advertise for a super-corporation nation's products, slowly cluing the unaware in to the fact that humans consumed everything on the planet, produced garbage until they were buried in their own waste, and when the Earth was reduced to a lifeless junkyard where no planets can survive and acid rains from the sky and dust storms destroy everything in their wake, they left. Even worse, we can the remains of others of our protagonist's kind along the way, reduced to scrap. This could be REALLY disturbing, especially for a children's film. Somehow though, that bullet is dodged by the little fellow who only speaks in what my father calls "robot baby speak". He is incredibly entertaining to watch, and incredibly cute. Even if you can't tell exactly what he is doing or saying, you like him immediately and watch everything he does. You are never bored of his one-robot antics as he compacts, collects, and then comes home to watch his movie and long for a companion of his own. And a companion he does find!
The Singing Dancing Robot
Little WALL*E finds himself suddenly no longer alone when a spaceship lands and drops off a probe robot to search for life on the desolate planet. At once terrified, curious, and enamored with the first FEMALE robot he has ever seen, cute little WALL*E jumps through many hoops to get EVE's attention (without being blasted by her excessively itchy blaster arm), and woo her with his accomplishments (I loved when she asked him what his directive was he compacted some trash and said "Taadaa!", as well as when he showed her his favorite movie and did a little song and dance). EVE is largely unimpressed with WALL*E himself (come on, he's ANCIENT compared to her), but indulges him, until her shows her his greatest treasure (the plant she has been looking for). After detecting the planet EVE completely shuts down, and WALL*E spends all his time trying to protect her, then follow her after she is picked up by the spaceship and taken back to the mothership. Naturally WALL*E is in store for a major shock as he enters the glistening giant starship, and quickly finds himself bumping into various robots and human inhabitants (who have been raised on a diet of heavy convenience and low interaction to the point of turning themselves into little more than blob people in a permanent state of recline). Everywhere WALL*E goes however, he makes a strong impression with his cute personality, and his built-in recorder which keeps playing at awkward moments with snipets of his favorite song (which comes to be the way that robots and humans identify him).
"G-I-V-E M-E T-H-E P-L-A-N-T"
From there things go into the standard "heroes on the run while stopping-the-evil-plot" ploy, wherein the plant is almost destroyed, and then continually chased by a HAL-like autopilot robot determined that the ship must never return to Earth (which it will automatically do when the ship confirms that Earth-life exists). The discovery of this plot (and the recording of everything that WALL*E did for EVE while she was asleep) results in EVE's change of feeling toward the little guy, who had gotten both of them in deep trouble by making the security droids think they are going rogue (and it didn't help that WALL*E accidentally let all the nutty robots out of the robot psyche ward). Naturally the hero triumphs in the end and a happy ending awaits all with a feel-good message about saving the Earth and starting over again with a little love and willingness to work to improve things.
"Define dancing."
What makes this more than just an interesting movie (and takes it to the realm of a good film, possibly a classic) is the way that everyone and everything in the movie, except for the spokesman of that evil BnL corp (who keeps appearing in live-action video excerpts), and the evil red-eyed autopilot and it's minions, is basically kind and friendly and good-hearted. WALL*E accidently runs over his cockroad friend, and shrieks, but the cockroach is unharmed. When WALL*E bumps into some people and tears off their displays and headphones, they are more curious and surprised than annoyed. Little robots going about their jobs get irritated by WALL*E's dirt and antics, but grow to love him, just as EVE does when she sees what a kind soul he is. But what really nailed it for me was the attitude of the captain of the ship.
"All you needed was some to take care of you."
When you see that he can't ever sit up without a motorized seat-back and a cup of coffee (after sleeping in till 12:30!), you might at first think he would be irked by the hassle of the prospect of returning to Earth (heck, he can't even read the return manual!). But no, this guy is so used to only have one job to do in a day (tell everyone what time it is and what the weather is like) that he's really excited at the prospect of something happening. And as he slowly comes to realize that the world long ago was reduced to a wasteland because his ancestors sat back and did NOTHING as the world was destroyed, he galvanized to action and works with WALL*E and EVE to get the planet recognized and the ship returning to Earth. I love the scene where the captain examines the plant and slowly realizes world could have been saved long long ago if people had only tried to do something to help the world instead of destroying it in their greed.
"WAL*E!!!!!"
There is a jarring transition when WALL*E goes into space. From that point onward, the movie feels far less like watching an actual robot moving through a desolate planet, and much more like watching a cartoon movie. The downside is that while the title character continues to be followed throughout the rest of the movie, he doesn't seem to be the focus anymore. A fish out of water with a somewhat low IQ, poor little WALL*E spends the rest of the movie largely running and hiding from trouble, or chasing after EVE, all the while seemingly blissfully unaware of how bad the situation is getting. To its credit the movie keeps its momentum by being constantly entertaining and almost always humorous despite the shift in focus.
"EVA?"
From another point of view, you could find the second half of the movie to have an almost Forest Gump type of feel, as the title character is swept up in huge issues way beyond his understanding, but keeps trying to win the perhaps overly-sophisticated female by sheer persistence and good intentions. Poor WALL*E, even in a crisis, can only think about how much he wants to hold EVE's hand.
"You're all gonna become farmers!"
The best advice I can give you for watching this film is to keep an open mind as I did, and not carry any expectations. Yeah, this movie may seem heavy-handed and soap-box-preachy in its environmentalism (and seriously anti-corporation to the point of almost anti-American to boot), and at times downright distrubing at times to litle kids (the autopilot electrocutes WALL*E nearly to death and he is nearly crushed to pieces trying to hold up the platform for the plant so the ship will return to Earth). But in the end the peril and sadness lead to a happy ending, and if you can swallow people living their entire lives in space returning to Earth (in reality their bones would be crushed like egg shells), then this is one ultimately satisfying sci-fi trip.
This is a brave new direction for Pixar and Disney, moving yet closer to PG rated animated films, or at the very least films with intelligence and depth for adults rather than pure kiddie glee-fests. The anmation is fantastic, especially in the beginning, the sound work is amazing, if hard to follow at times as the robots speak in robot-baby-speak, and the music, pacing, plot, and flow are quite excellent. The only truly GLARING flaw in the film to me is that the song WALL*E loves is overused WAY too much, and I would have liked it if there had been a lot more variety in the songs instead of the same one over and over and over and...yeah. That and the way that so much of the music seemed to be completely LIFTED from Star Wars, 2001:A Space Oddessy, ect, (can't Pixar just have someone write some new music by now?). I do however, LOVE the start-up sound WALL*E makes when he recharges (I used to hear that start-up sound every morning myself and it brings back warm memories).
So there you have it, a brave new world of animation, a seemingly kiddie film with very adult editing (long stretch of isolation at the beginning and almost no real "talking" the entire film, great comedy and fun to be had, and a feel-good story with an important environmental message. Looking back on it now, this film is probably a must-own sci-fi classic....unless you're one of those people who rolled their eyes and walked out of Silent Running...
Description of Wall-E (Single-Disc Edition)
The highly acclaimed director of Finding Nemo and the creative storytellers behind Cars and Ratatouille transport you to a galaxy not so far away for a new cosmic comedy adventure about a determined robot named Wall-E.After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, the curious and lovable Wall-E discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named Eve. Join them and a hilarious cast of characters on a fantastic journey across the universe. Transport yourself to a fascinating new world with Disney-Pixar's latest adventure, now even more astonishing on DVD and loaded with bonus features, including the exclusive animated short film Burn-E. Wall-E is a film your family will want to enjoy over and over again.
Pixar genius reigns in this funny romantic comedy, which stars a robot who says absolutely nothing for a full 25 minutes yet somehow completely transfixes and endears himself to the audience within the first few minutes of the film. As the last robot left on earth, Wall-E (voiced by Ben Burtt) is one small robot--with a big, big heart--who holds the future of earth and mankind squarely in the palm of his metal hand. He's outlasted all the "Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class" robots that were assigned some 700 years ago to clean up the environmental mess that man made of earth while man vacationed aboard the luxury spaceship Axiom. Wall-E has dutifully gone about his job compacting trash, the extreme solitude broken only by his pet cockroach, but he's developed some oddly human habits and ideas. When the Axiom sends its regularly scheduled robotic EVE probe (Elissa Knight) to earth, Wall-E is instantly smitten and proceeds to try to impress EVE with his collection of human memorabilia. EVE's directive compels her to bring Wall-E's newly collected plant sprout to the captain of the Axiom and Wall-E follows in hot pursuit. Suddenly, the human world is turned upside down and the Captain (Jeff Garlin) joins forces with Wall-E and a cast of other misfit robots to lead the now lethargic people back home to earth. Wall-E is a great family film with the most impressive aspect being the depth of emotion conveyed by a simple robot--a machine typically considered devoid of emotion, but made so absolutely touching by the magic of Pixar animation. Also well-worth admiring are the sweeping views from space, the creative yet disturbing vision of what strange luxuries a future space vacation might offer, and the innovative use of trash in a future cityscape. Underneath the slapstick comedy and touching love story is a poignant message about the folly of human greed and its potential effects on earth and the entire human race. Wall-E is preceded in theaters by the comical short Presto in which a magician's rabbit, unfed one too many times takes his revenge against the egotistical magician. (Ages 3 and older) --Tami Horiuchi>
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