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Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2008
In case you didn't have the good fortune of catching this movie when it was in theaters, it's the story of the last robot left on Earth after the humans fled the planet on a resort spaceship while the planet was being cleaned up by robots like Wall-E that compact trash and incinerate it since we we produced way too much trash for the planet to handle. I don't want to talk too much to the story, particularly because of spoilers (I hate spoiling things, even months after a movie is out), but it's really quite impressive. After watching it again I'm convinced that it's my favorite animated movie of all time. Part of what I love about it is that it doesn't have to compromise by having something for the kids and something for adults to enjoy like a lot of animated movies tend to do, it's just a wonderful experience for everyone. It really is unique, in my opinion, in this way. Even the physical humor really isn't childishly silly, it's clever. I kind of feel like it's a modern-day geek movie on par with Tron or Real Genius . Could it be the first one since The Matrix ? I think it's the best robot movie ever. Suffice to say, the always stellar folks at Pixar really outdid themselves with this movie. It's fun, beautiful, heart-warming, fascinating, nerdy, and probably much more that I'm forgetting to say here. It's just really one of those rare A+ movies, which is confirmed when 5 months later I'm chomping at the bit to see it again and feel every bit as good about it as I did when I originally saw it.
Now let's get into the Blu-ray set here. The visuals are every bit as stunning on Blu-ray as they were in the movie theater. The problem with DVDs was that the quality was always inconsistent between movies. My
Stranger Than Fiction disc looks almost like 1080i, but not my Batman Begins . Not so with Blu-ray, as far as I can tell. The bigger the screen you have at your disposal the more impressed you're likely to be. I was trying to finish up my laundry as I started the movie but I could not pull my eyes away from the movie because of how jaw-dropping the visuals were. And as if that wasn't enough, the audio is equally impressive. My TV only has simulated surround sound, but it felt pretty real to me. It's funny how a movie with so little dialogue can have such powerful audio through its score and robot noises and such. I can't even imagine how incredible this set will be for those with a true Dolby setup at home.
I should really step back for a second and remark at how impressed I am by the all around presentation from Disney. They really know how to brand themselves and their intellectual property. The first thing I encountered was BD Live stuff, and so I gladly went to the Disney site to setup my account and had no troubles at all. I'm 99% sure you could go right past all of this, but I just chose not to because I was excited about BD Live. There was only 4 features available, 2 of which I couldn't use. One was movie chat, where you and other friends with the movie can watch the move at the same time while text chatting. Yes, it will synchronize your movies, so I guess this would be good for cousins in different cities or when dad is on a business trip or something. They made the smart move of only allowing this between trusted friends, not just random strangers. Another one is movie mail, in which you can splice together scenes from the movie to make messages to send to trusted friends, and also add in video of yourself (no idea how, maybe through an EyeToy for PS3 owners?). I did use the movie challenge feature though, where you can join in live trivia challenges with strangers online in 10 minute rounds of 8-15 questions. I could choose from easy or medium, and I chose easy. They were fairly simple questions and what I loved was how it would just be at the bottom of the screen while you watch the movie. So you can pause the movie, open this up, and play while resuming playback. It's actually pretty fun and you get points depending on how fast you answer. The last feature is reward points, which is confusing to me but I think you earn them through the trivia and other stuff on the Disney site and you can redeem them for avatars and other bonus features and stuff, but I think that this is still in the process of being fleshed out more.
I liked the BD Live features because I felt like they were easy to get to and integrated well, but the other stuff was even better. First of all, there are 3 ways to watch the movie, or two in addition to just watching the normal movie. One is called Cin-experience, where you get insightful director's commentary in addition to picture-in-picture pop-ups of artwork and (silent) videos of animation from the pre-visualization and design stages of the film. I usually never listen to these commentary tracks, but in a movie with as little dialogue as Wall-E, I gave it a shot and loved it. The artwork really does add a surprising amount to the experience, and I learned a lot of cool random things about the movie, like that it took them over 3 years to put it together (it sounds like they started thinking about it in the late 90s). You could also turn off the artwork from the pop-up menu, which is a standard thing with Blu-ray discs. If you watch the movie normally, you can pop-up stuff from the main menu without having to pause the movie, like choosing a scene via screen shot rather than having to do the guesswork of skipping ahead or backwards on your remote. The other way to watch the movie is kind of like Science Mystery Theater where a group of four people who helped with the film and are generally kind of geeky point out random trivia and scientific inconsistencies and such, with a silhouetted couch occasionally popping up. It really was them on the couch, or else they put an undue amount of effort into animating their arms and hands as they talked. It was a really fun spin on a commentary track and I enjoyed the little of it that I tried out (I will watch the whole movie with it eventually). The only gripe I had with these was that you couldn't just turn them off in the middle of the movie. You could fairly easily stop the movie and go back to the main movie to choose the chapter and then resume playing in normal mode, but it should've been an easy on/off switch. Despite that odd pitfall, it really does help show why Blu-ray really is better than DVD.
There's more extras than that, and what's more exciting is that they're pretty much all in high-definition, even the promotional "sneak peeks"! While I appreciate the throwback to the video cassette Disney movies where they start out with "Coming soon to video" and all that (they had the same style and everything), I still don't think I like them starting out when you put in the disc the second time. I forgive it because there were a couple of really cool ones that looked gorgeous in HD, including one for the Disney documentary Earth. That's probably going to be in every big box electronics store as a demo once it's out on Blu-ray a year from now. It was simply the most incredible thing I've seen on my TV, including Wall-E. Anyway, there are real extras here, so let me stop teasing you with these psuedo-extras. The Axiom Arcade has 4 8-bit games that look like they would've been on your NES, and I thought that they were nifty, though maybe too advanced for kids not on the tail end of elementary school. There was also an interactive storybook for kids and "Trinkets and Treasures", which seems like it was animators playing with Wall-E and Eve to do random things, like Wall-E breaking a vacuum (which was one of the early teasers for the film). For the adults there's a documentary that's over an hour long, 3-D fly throughs of the virtual sets, Buy and Large shorts, a short Geek-o-rama featurette, profiles of all the robots in the film, and deleted scenes (spliced together frames to form a rough cut) with video commentary from the director before and after the scenes. There's also the Presto short from when the movie was in theaters and a short called Burn-E, which is a deleted scene that more or less evolved into a short (there's also an option to view it with story boards). I'm probably leaving something out, but you get the idea: there's a lot here. Not counting the 3 possible viewings of the film, there's well over 2 hours of high-definition content here. Disney probably has no intention of douple dipping with this film because this set is packed with stuff. If you enjoyed the film, I highly recommend picking it up.
I went into Blu-ray with plenty of skepticism, but I've been pretty impressed so far, especially with Wall-E. It's a great movie that has gotten star treatment on Blu-ray.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2024
I see someone snuck and ordered this movie. Or I did for my kids I can’t remember but either way it’s on of my kids favorite 💕
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2009
Wall-E in parts:
Musicals
If you know me, you'll know that I hate musicals - mostly, not entirely, but musicals are basically not my thing. The first time I saw Wall-E, was the week the DVD became available for sale. I promptly bought it (and subsequently bought the 3-disc package through Amazon), because so far I had loved all Pixar product released (I have some issues with Incredibles and Rata-tool, but I mostly love them also). And, lo and behold, if my heart didn't sink at the beginning of the movie...I went a little cold, and started thinking that Pixar had gone the way of Disney animated films of the 80's and 90's - I thought that Wall-E was going to be adopting the musical format of the parent company. But nothing could be further from the truth (thankfully). The musicals and/or musical love/lover concept was injected into the story in the best most imaginative way I could never have imagined.
Story Arc
The story is the reason why I feel Wall-E should have been considered for an Oscar nomination - much more deservedly than Beauty and the Beast. Because for me, a good story is when the main character's journey is really and truly well told, and when you can palpably see the evolution and or growth of one or more characters - one palpable moment is the scene where Wall-E is busted up pretty badly, he gives Eve the plant and says "Directive." Not only do you actually see Eve's growth and transformation into an emotional being, but Wall-E persists and reveals for her the grander and mor important ultimate "Directive" of going back to Earth. I compare this with the growth and transformation of two sisters in Sense and Sensibility (Emma taking the cake with her virtual climax of emotion near the end), and Amy Adams in Enchanted when she convulsively realized that she is capable of feeling anger (that scene made the movie worthwhile for me).
Animation
Hayao Miyazaki is a master animation director and most of the Pixar directors are master animation directors (I will include John Kricfalusi, Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, and Hannah & Barbera to the master animation director category - I'm sure there are others, but their names escape me right now). I believe that a sure-fire way to make fluid animation look crappy and ultimately turn out lousy is by doing a formula or format type of animation direction. I've come to loathe and practically convulse when watching characters make strange and unnecessary emotive motions, hand movements and gestures - if you know Futurama, it is probably the type of motion that Harold Zoid would actually like.
The joy of joys for me in animation, are moments like in Ren & Stimpy where a lot of their emoting is done mostly with their eyes, but then Stimpy manages to anger Ren and all hell breaks loose. One might wonder why directors, if they truly want to take their craft seriously, can't see how the drama is intensified when things are mostly static and motionless until the moment is right and everything goes wild - or just the mere fact that if you were to see the same movements that you see in a lot of animation, translated to live action, you might think that there was some sort of weird Ed Wood revival of directing going on or something.
Bob movements. I hate bob movements of meaningless, head, hands, arms, and body motion. Andrew Stanton has just about perfected the elimination of bob movements in animation with his work in Wall-E (the same can not be said for the Rat-a-tool guy).
Animation studios
Of course, I don't hate everything that comes out of Dreamworks animation, but as far as I'm concerned, Katzenberg is heavily involved with a lot of what I hate in modern animation. I'm talking about formulas and forcing every single gwad-lovin' animation feature idea into a musical format...did I mention that I hate musicals (for the most part)?
It doesn't stop there though. There's something about using or misusing pop-references (in all movies, not just animation). The way that a lot of studios use pop-references (including Disney and Dreamworks) pretty much guarantees that the particular film will become dated, and not a timeless classic. And not only does the film become dated, but I hate that feeling when I get into a movie and try to loose myself in the film's fantasy, but all of a sudden I get the cold-water-splash of a pop-reference that lets me know it's only a movie. I mean, how can I loose myself in a film, when the characters start quoting popular movies or making reference to the Terminator or something similar. To me that's like the pin-prick popping the balloon.
There's hope though, I think, because I feel the Madagascar movies and Kung Fu Panda had some great stuff in them. I pretty much hate all their other stuff. It really broke my heart to see all those beautifully designed Aardman characters move in those god-awful bob movements that Nick Park would never do...well, I guess I would add Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit to the love category, although I don't strictly consider those 2 films as Dreamworks movies. Plus, add to the "there's hope" in animation, the movie Happy Feet from Warner Bro's.
A moment to shed a single tear for the death of trad/drawn feature animation in the U.S....
But anyway, in my opinion, Wall-E re-certified Pixar, as the top feature animation studio in the U.S.
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Reviewed in India on November 14, 2018
Wall e show the future of the earth. Very heart touching movie.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Belíssimo filme.
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Filmaço.
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