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

Author: FitzPublished: Dec 01, 2008 at 5:34 pm 1 comment

Each of these breaks down further into individual features. "Behind the Scenes" by itself includes nearly 52 minutes of documentary coverage of the making of the movie. Everything from lighting and music, to how the look of humans evolved, to the Pixar process and how the robots were designed. These are definitely geared for those individuals interested in how the film came together and not for your typical family audience.

"BnL Shorts" is a collection of five short movies that are basically commercials for "Buy n Large" narrated by Fred Willard. These are hilarious clips lampooning our commercial, advertising-laden world of today and extrapolating a bit to fit the world of WALL-E.

The Pixar Story is a history not only of Pixar, but of animation and film. For the last 100 years, we've been seeing images dancing on the screen in black and white and color. Stop motion, hand-drawn cartoons, and CGI all have their place in such history. And Pixar has been involved in this history for the last 20 of those 100 years. Leslie Iwerks created this 90-minute story of how Pixar revolutionized the animation industry.

The additional deleted scenes on Disc 2 are of sketch-book style animated sequences. The first, "Secret Files", shows what I believe is the auto-pilot disappearing into the bowels of the ship to discover that with the plant from Earth, return was imminent. The auto-pilot determines that going back to Earth should be avoided at all costs. "Docking" provides a slightly different approach to WALL-E's arrival on the Axiom. Again, it's obvious why some of these scenes didn't make it into the final movie. The final scenes were simpler and more direct.

On the "Robots" side of the features, we have fun family-oriented features.

"WALL-E's Treasures & Trinkets" is a collection of short movies that did find their way onto the web at some point before WALL-E's release. They have WALL-E playing with rubber balls, a hula hoop, a vacuum cleaner, and more. All of these are great fun!

"Bot Files" provides a fun encyclopedia of all the various robots that were scene either directly or indirectly during the movie. This includes BURN-E, WALL-E, EVE, and many more.

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  • 1 - john-paul

    Dec 05, 2008 at 11:08 am

    haw much money do you wan,t

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