Wall-E (Three-Disc Special Edition + Digital Copy and BD Live) [Blu-ray] | ![Wall-E (Three-Disc Special Edition + Digital Copy and BD Live) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lXr2iiC5L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Andrew Stanton
Actors: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, Macintalk
Studio: WALT DISNEY VIDEO
Category: DVD
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Rating:  186 reviews
Sales Rank: 6
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Number Of Discs: 3
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.8
UPC: 786936775433
EAN: 0786936775433
ASIN: B001EOQWFI
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Release Date: November 18, 2008 (New: This Week)
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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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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.
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 Great movie but what was with all anti-human message? November 23, 2008
Winston (Canada)
I loved this and I think it's a unique and great story. I just don't get the whole anti-human message that Disney has displayed in the past in its cartoons (finding Nemo, Wall-E....). Do they really hate human beings? The movie is extremely well-done but for its anti-mankind message I can't give it any better rating.
 Never just a kid's movie November 23, 2008
Dhampir (frozen wastes, nd)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wall*E was never just a kid's movie. It's got your requisite cute, starring characters and supporting cast, but it's more than that. Much more. This is one of PIXAR's best and brightest stories and visual accomplishments.
The story starts with what seems like a simple little robot working to clean up the mess left on Earth. Grabbing garbage, pulling it inside, compacting it into a small cube then stacking it neatly. As the day moves on, you can see this has been going on for a long time. Piles higher than skyscrapers line the streets, each with neatly stacked cubes of trash.
Wall*E is really the only thing you see moving around doing anything; his companion is a happy little roach, cheerfully watching and following Wall*E around. Every so often Wall*E finds something and puts it to the side. When he goes home to his storage trailer, he does things that any of us would do: taking off his 'shoes', turning on the lights and turning on his 'TV', a video iPod with magnifying screen.
Soon, you can see why he's left alone: all the others units have stopped working. You can get a real sense that Wall*E is the only thing left. And all he wants is someone to be with, just like in the movie he watches and listens to while working, someone to hold hands with. A really cute and endearing theme that stays through the movie.
Soon, the arrival of EVE, a slick, hovering robot with a mission arrives. Wall*E soon is fascinated by EVE and they eventually begin to find each other as friends. When Wall*E gives EVE a present he'd found earlier, it triggers her main directive and original reason to be on Earth. When EVE is forced to leave, Wall*E has to follow her.
EVE goes home to the star liner that left Earth long ago. There you see where everyone from Earth went; to a simple life filled with automated everything. This is where the supporting characters find their way into Wall*E and EVE's path, a bunch of misfits and malfunctioning robots, all trying to help EVE and Wall*E fulfill her directive. Here, you also get the first real look at what life without any kind work has done to the human population.
EVE's directive pushes the story along to find the main antagonist who's kept the humans on the star liner and plans to keep them there no matter what. From here, the race is on to show both EVE and Wall*E's humanity. EVE wants to do what her directive tells her to, but doesn't want to hurt Wall*E. Wall*E just wants to be with EVE and help her any way he can.
The whole time I watched this movie, I'm rooting for Wall*E to just keep working his way along, getting a simple pleasure of out watching him do what he does: collect things, spending time with his pet and even dance. Then when EVE shows up, it's like watching the awkward boy try and meet the popular girl. You want them to be together because he deserves it, it's all he wants anymore and helping her makes him happy.
I'll also admit I choked up a few times when some events happened. The characters had hooked me pretty hard. I didn't want bad things to happen to Wall*E; I didn't like it when they did. The way the story is made, you feel for Wall*E. They did well in getting the characters just right so that you can and should connect with them earlier and often.
Once you start to really look at Wall*E and the rest of the robotic crew, I stopped thinking of them as animated cartoons and as real as any regular movie. The animators were so detailed many times I couldn't think of what I was watching as anything but real. For example, there's many shots of Wall*E's three fingered hands. Taking a close look you can see the weathered, scraped, dinged and scratched fingers of someone who's put in a lot of hard work. Then you look at EVE's smooth, almost silky white fingers and you could almost reach out and touch them both.
All in all, I'd recommend this movie for anyone for anytime they want an excellent story with great characters.
Of the added extras, the best one was the PIXAR short: Presto. Simple and short and full of comedy. It's the story of a magician with two real magic hats. The first is the top hat, the second is a magician's conical hat. The magician has one assistant, Alec, a hungry bunny. All he wants is his carrot. Without the carrot, he uses the hat combo to keep the magician from simply pulling a rabbit from his hat. The entire time, Alec uses everything around to humiliate (in true comic form) the magician while on stage to the roars of laughter from the crowd.
 This is NOT the greatest animated movie... it's boring November 23, 2008
Flashman_jp (London, UK)
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
Wall-e is a very weak movie. The plot is extremely thin, the characters (human or otherwise) are forgettable and, worst of all, it's boring.
I can't see why people are calling it the best animated movie of all time. It doesn't work for adults because its plot is so childish and feeble, and it doesn't work for kids because it's just plain average.
The proof is in the repeated viewing. My kids will (and indeed have) watch Toy Story, Monsters Inc, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, etc again and again and again. I can happily watch them again and again!
They never get bored with those movies and they want a Buzz doll, a cuddly Nemo, the book of Monsters Inc... they just can't get enough.
But they watched Wall-e once and maybe a half times more and that was it. No more interest. Back to Buzz and Woody and Sully and Crush.
Let's just hope Pixar's next offering is better.
 Bad DVDs / Not compatible with all DVD players November 23, 2008
B. Hunsaker (Vancouver, WA)
The movie is good, but the DVD has problems. VLC on a PC can't play it on my Vista based PC. My Samsung HD931 can play the bonus features but not the movie. The same for my XP-based PC (WMP - I'm not sure what DVD decoder). It does work with the Mac OS X 10.5 DVD player application.
Timeless November 23, 2008
aaowood (Boston, MA USA)
This is a truly exceptional film both for its technical accomplishments, as well as for a story that is truly prescient. This film has all of the makings of a classic and I am quite confident it will be remembered as such.
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