DVD Review: WALL-E 3-Disc Special Edition - Page 2

In addition, you have two deleted scenes. "Garbage Airlock" is an extended scene of what occurred in the garbage airlock when WALL-E was trying to rescue EVE from being crushed and ejected into space. It is a bit different than the scene that ended up in the movie and definitely worth watching. "Dumped" was the second deleted scene and was unfinished. It focuses on WALL-E and EVE hiding from the security bots on board the Axiom and when WALL-E felt like he was "dumped" by EVE. The scene is cute, but it was easy to see why it was cut as extraneous.

There's a sneak peek of "WALL-E's Tour of the Universe", where WALL-E, Microsoft, and the Worldwide Telescope (WWT) help explain planets, constellations, stars, and galaxies. This looks like a cool virtual tour of the universe for the computer from Microsoft Labs.

Finally on the disc, in addition to the audio commentary from director Andrew Stanton, you have a feature called "Animation Sound Design: Building Worlds from The Sound Up" where sound designer Ben Burtt talks about the challenges presented when coming up with the soundtrack for the movie. Burtt, Stanton, co-producer Lindsey Collins, and producer Jim Morris describe the process they used for finding the sounds for not only the main characters of WALL-E and EVE, but the background noise of an abandoned planet, a space ship, and more. You learn amazing facts like how a Slinky is used to create the sounds for EVE's laser gun. You also learn how the sound producers at Disney created some of the effects for early Disney animated movies such as Dumbo and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Clips of Jimmy MacDonald, a Disney sound designer, are shown where he demonstrates many of the techniques used in those films. Burtt reused some of these techniques for WALL-E.

Disc 2 continues the stream of great bonus features. The features are broken into two main categories - Humans (for film fans) and Robots, plus a Set Up menu that allows you turn on subtitles.

The "Humans" features then includes a number of sub-features... "Behind the Scenes," "BnL Shorts," The Pixar Story, and additional "Deleted Scenes."

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