| WALL-E (2 Disc Special Edition) [2008] | ![WALL-E (2 Disc Special Edition) [2008]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NEl1OAEKL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Andrew Stanton
Actors: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Jeff Garlin
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (46 reviews)
Sales Rank: 19
Format: Pal
Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Media: DVD
Running Time: 95 minutes
Number Of Items: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 0.6
EAN: 8717418178123
ASIN: B001DR9TNS
Release Date: November 24, 2008
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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. --Tami Horiuchi, Amazon.com
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WALL-E worked for me January 5, 2009
Strong film, probably best seen in cinema.
It worked on most levels for me - the robotic romance was just a bit cloying sometimes.
Messages about human greed, servility to technology, environmentalism and also human endeavour delivered very effectively indeed.
Enjoyable - and more than just entertainment.
 A Great, Cleaver Movie January 5, 2009
Wall E is simply amazing, i really like all the cleaver messages this movie holds, and how the creators have made a robot that speaks about two words become so lovable, i agree with some people the start can be slow but it allows you to get a understand of Wall E and what the situation is, the robot has plenty of character and i think all in all this is a GREAT MOVIE :)
Basically, a sweet, dystopian sci-fi robot love story... January 5, 2009
Film: From the single word phrases WALL.E and EVE vocalise (alot of their dialogue is limited to beeps and vocoded sentences), it seems to bring them to life really well. The captain of the ship is voice acted really well too.
Although it's inspired from various sci fi films, the film has a uniqueness all of it's own. The funny scenes really did make me chuckle and the sort of plausible dystopian view of life 700 years into the future doesn't preach a green message at you like Happy Feet did, rather plays subtely in the background so it can be read on many different levels.
The animation is absoloutely stunning, especially outer space like the Sun and Saturn's rings. WALL.E's design may not be 100% original (a cross between a robotic E.T. meets Short Circuit's Johnny 5) but for such little dialogue, the character's personalities are shown very well indeed.
Love the score - it really does complete the scenes and the Hello Dolly use is charming and fitting for me too.
Overall: a very sweet lovable child-like robot is brought to life so well and his love for EVE convinces. Sight gags and satirical pokes at our way of life are thought-provoking and the film, as said before can be understood on many different levels without it becoming too much or trying too hard (like alot of animated films that seem to shove references into films firmly aimed at the older adult audience, like Madagascar).9/10
Bonus Features:
Presto: Theatrical Short - hilarious short of a magician and his rabbit.
BURN.E: All New original Short - The off-screen story of what happens to the repair robot who gets locked out of the ship by WALL.E and EVE.
Animation Sound Design: Building Worlds From The Sound Up - Very interesting and insightful doc about the challenges the team faces in making sounds for the film.
Deleted Scenes:
View The Deleted Scenes With Optional Introductions By Director Andrew Stanton ON/OFF
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'Garbage Airlock' - role reversed with WALL.E being the one to save EVE after going down the garbage chute.
'Dumped' - very brief scenes with an alternative way that EVE finds the plant for her .'directive'.
Audio Commentary by Director Andrew Stanton ON/OFF - an actual really good, informative listen of the problems, changes and joys of making the film. 6/10 for this one disc Rental edition DVD.
ecological January 5, 2009
the movie is beautiful, the music is magnificent and even the package is cute!
though, it is all paper, including the soundtrack cd case... all i secological about this ;-))
Great...bit slow for some at the start though January 2, 2009
The population of the earth have to leave and go to live on giant holiday resorts in space due to human failures to address the problems of waste and pollution. 750 years later, the population of these resorts have not learnt from they're mistakes and have become fat and lazy, eating, sleeping and loafing about without getting out of they're hover chairs, doing little all day apart from interact with others through a social networking terminal that is perched permanently in front of them....Here they chat and obsess constantly about themselves, and are addicted to and strive for the continuous instant gratification found on 'myface'.... sound familiar?
Every now and again the ships computer sends off a probe to check out earth to find out if it is yet possible to support life. Wal-e is the last of the waste disposal droids that has been left on earth and has evolved and developed a mind of his own, his only friend being a cockroach who follows him everywhere. When one of the probes comes down to check out the earth, a love story and adventure unfolds.
This film has all the right moral fibre stuff like.... if we don't stop being greedy, abusing the the planet and start thinking of others then we are are all going to be screwed sooner rather than later. Also if we sit in front of social networking sites vainly obsessing about ourselves and telling the world every detail and every emotional change we go though throughout the day in the vain hope that someone will flatter or flirt with us, we will very soon turn into self obsessed, vacuous idiots who no longer have the where with all to understand, interact and enjoy the real world for the beautiful place it really could be.
It's also a love story, which too is all healthy stuff. That said, it could a bit slow for the younger viewers and some of it maybe won't be understood, so if your a hands off parent who is going to plonk your 8 year old down in front of the screen, then they probably won't get it....(which is ironic as its those people who really should watch this film). As like many of these sorts of films, this is a great fun film for adults too.
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