Wall-E Blu-ray

Product Review

Release Date: 24 November 2008

Even for Pixar, this might be a first: an animated film that contains not only a fully realised world as photorealistic as it is full of wonder, but also the Gargantuan themes and visuals of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, the stripped-down sad-clown pathos found in classic Buster Keaton comedies, and one of the most moving and simply unique love stories in a long time. Director Andrew Stanton kicked up the visual acuity of an already-stellar Pixar Animation Studios in 2003 with a reflective, refractive, color-shimmery realisation of the oceanic world of FINDING NEMO, which genuinely felt as though it spanned the entire earth. With WALL-E, Stanton replaces an apprehensively fishy estranged journeyer with a love-struck and curious robotic one, allowing the quest for eternal love to expand from a desolate, dust-covered, palpably polluted future Earth and into an even more mysterious abyss: the far reaches of outer space.

With virtually no dialogue, WALL-E's neatly contained vaudevillian first act eerily and tragically introduces the robot of the title as the last living thing on Earth (aside from a little cockroach friend) amidst dilapidated skyscrapers and equally tall compacted trash heaps. WALL-E has developed a tender and inquisitive personality doing what he was built to do day in and day out for the past 700 years--allocate and dispose of human waste--simply because no one turned him off when the human race left the hostile polluted planet. When the directive-oriented Eve robot comes crashing into his life from above, WALL-E immediately becomes infatuated with her, and is willing to follow her to back into dangerous outer space, where two robots gliding through the ether, dancing via fire-extinguisher propulsion, are among the many memorable and grandly romantic moments of an expansively beautiful, deceptively simple story.

More Details

Certificate:	U

Region:	Region B

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

Sound Information:	Dolby Digital

Main Language:	English

Review:

5 stars out of 5 - WALL-E is a character of genius, as wondrous an example of the potential of animation as you will ever see. Empire , WALL-E surely breaks new ground [...] It is also a disarmingly sweet and simple love story, Chaplinesque in its emotional purity. New York Times , 4 stars out of 4 - Animation art at its highest level [...] You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind, that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic. Rolling Stone , Pixar's latest is wonderful and full of wonder [...] Daring and traditional, groundbreaking and familiar, apocalyptic and sentimental, WALL-E gains strengths from embracing contradictions Los Angeles Times , [E]xceptionally good. In fact it's one of Pixar's best films....The film's joy, though, is the way WALL-E's situation develops in an organic, lyrical, musical way. Sight and Sound

Director:	Andrew Stanton

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