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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Binding: DVD Brand: Buena Vista Home Video EAN: 0786936734911 Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen Label: WALT DISNEY VIDEO Manufacturer: WALT DISNEY VIDEO Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: WALT DISNEY VIDEO Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 18, 2008 Running Time: 98 minutes Sales Rank: 7 Studio: WALT DISNEY VIDEO Theatrical Release Date: June 27, 2008
Product Description: 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. Bonus Features 1. Burn-E Hilarious, All-New Animated Short, 2. Presto Amazing Animated Theatrical Short Film, 3. Deleted Scenes Garbage Airlock, Dumped, 4. Sneak Peek Wall-E's Tour Of The Universe Wall-E Takes You On A Real Ride Through Space, 5. Animation Sound Design Building Worlds From The Sound Up Legendary Sound Designer Ben Burtt Shares Secrets Of Creating The Sounds Of Wall-E. 6. Audio Commentary With Director Andrew Stanton
Amazon.com: 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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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Almost perfect movie
The first 1/3 of the movie (before Wall-E meets people on the ship) is perfect - a masterpiece. The second 1/3 is a very good movie. The last third is perfect as well.
Rating: - I'm biased but this is awesome.
Being a professional in the 3D animation and games industry, nothing interests me more than the next Pixar feature. Even more than that, I think I get more excited about the animated shorts they show at before the feature.
Now, my review for this is going to be a little biased because this was the first film I ever saw in Blu - ray. I popped the disc into my new Sony BD350 blu-ray player, eventually the menu comes around, and I am already sucked into the sharp, vibrant, and colorful HD picture on my 40" Samsung Plasma. I couldn't wait any longer - I hit play, the Pixar logo animation plays (sharp as ever), the movie start playing...
The animation is incredible. The rendering, texturing, lighting, color, complexity and completeness of the environments - all amazing! I especially love Wall-E's little shack for a home, the huge piles of trash (must have been an interesting problem to solve on the animation/modeling technical side), and that massive "Axiom" space ship.
After being blown away by the movie, it's time to check out what's so great about this blu-ray technology as far as content and menus go. First of all, navigating through all the menus may be intimidating for the average movie watcher, but once you get through it a bit, it's pretty awesome compared to the old DVD menu navigation. Right away, I found the magician animated short (one of my favorite shorts ever), and the Burn-E short, a little extension of the engineering robot's story.
After those shorts, I worked my way to the content I always look for on an animated DVD - "fly-throughs" of the all the main digital sets and layouts. It will fly you through Wall-E's home, the Trash area on the big ship, and everywhere else in the movie without characters. This I absolutely love, because you get to enjoy the beautiful crafting jobs of the modelers and designers at Pixar without the distraction of story or characters. This may sound weird to the norm, but as a 3D enthusiast, this is my favorite part - admiring the artwork of the extremely talented artists at Pixar.
There was a whole thing when this movie hit the theaters - you either loved it, or hated it. Personally, I can't anyone disliking Wall-E. Yes, there is no talking of any kind for a while, other than Wall-E and a cockroach, there isn't much character interaction. But I think that is the brilliance behind this film. If they can successfully tell a good story, siphon emotions, and build credible character relationships with the lack of speaking, and just the interaction of the main character with it's environment, you've got incredible writers, animators, artists...
Wall-E is just another incredible story to add to the Pixar library of greats. They have not failed in quality yet, and every year I wonder how can it possibly top what it did last year. Now, we get to enjoy the digital greats in it's uncompressed HD glory. I now look forward to their 2009 release, UP(also a preview on the blu-ray disc).
Buy Wall-E (on blu-ray if at all possible, it's even got a digital copy so you can watch it in high-def on your PC). You will not regret it.
Rating: - FANTASTIC!!! MOVIE OF THE YEAR
This is unbelievably great. Better and better on each viewing. WALL-E should be the NEW ET. Critics have been loving it but the populace needs to get more onboard with how great this movie is. Well worth the price. Get this now.
Rating: - WALL-E review
I heard good things about this movie before I saw it and it still exceeded my expectations. The story is fantastic, along with great attention for detail, and of course cutting edge animation this movie is hugely entertaining! Not only is it a fantastic flick, but gives a disturbing portrayal of the Earth and it's civilizations future if changes aren't made. I haven't seen an animated film as well thought out as this one!
Rating: - A Must-Have Reference Title
This movie is clearer than Ratatouille, which is something I didn't now could be achieved. I don't have a DTS-HD Master Audio home theater setup so I can't vouch for the multi channel audio but the Blu-Ray video is nothing short of stunning. I've heard the movie on a Wilson Audio system and the sound in 2.0 channel stereo is incredible. I can't fathom the full DTS-HD Master Audio.
The only annoying thing is the bonus "geek" version has people silhouetted on a sofa doing commentary. This is annoying and masks the bottom right corner of the screen. Other than that, this thing is flawless. 5 stars all the way, all day. every day.
Highly recommended if you want to show off how good your HDTV picture is. :)
- Almost perfect movie
