WALL•E
WALL•E is a staggeringly sweet film with all the heart and clever sight gags you come to expect from Pixar movie. It's a testament to the creative minds there, and writer/director Andrew Stanton in particular, that two characters who can barely say each other's names would provide the best love story of the year. They do so with innocence, charm, great humor and fantastic determination to overcome the forces that would conspire to keep them apart and keep humanity from returning to Earth. WALL•E's shortcomings are only to be found in an adult mind, which may find it impossible to do away with questions like, how did this society manage to function on this giant spacecraft for 700 years? What kind of economy do they have? If no one knows how to do anything except lounge around, grow fat and let robots do everything for them, how do they reproduce? WALL•E's message about human avarice and taking our planet for granted is a point well made, but the human element of the film makes no sense. It's enough of a distraction to keep it from the pantheon of Pixar's greatest movies, but by no means does that diminish its effervescent appeal. WALL•E is an exceptional film for the whole family to enjoy—another bright, shining winner from the team at Pixar.
- April 15, 2009
DVD Extras
Lots of whiz-bang extras, including Cine-Explore, Geek Track and BD-Live features. You also get Presto, the Pixar short film which played in front of Wall-E theatrically, and BURN•E, another short film about a maintenance robot on the human ship which frankly is the funniest thing in the whole two-disc Blu-ray package. By the way, did I mention the Blu-ray picture for WALL•E is out of this world (no pun intended)?