More on WALL-E
November 26, 2008 by Kimberly · Leave a Comment
Last week, I mentioned the on DVD & Blu-ray release of the hit movie Wall-E. For those of you who like to know a little bit more about movies before going out to buy the DVD, I figured that I’d elaborate a bit more about the movie and share my thoughts on a few of the bonus features.
WALL-E has received consistently great reviews overall. I’m not a big science-fiction fan but the friendship/ romance aspect of the film won me over. I must say that I liked the movie while my husband and son really enjoyed it. WALL-E is one of those movies that I want to look at again by myself so I don’t miss anything. (It’s hard for me to focus completely when watching with my husband and son – they talk during movies!)
Basically, the film follows WALL-E, an endearing little trash compactor robot who is left on Earth to clean up the polluted planet. One of the things that made my family laugh was that the only other thing that existed along with WALL-E was his “pet” cockroach (although he should have died many times throughout the movie!). One day another robot named EVE comes to earth to do some exploring. She and WALL-E become friends (after he prevents her from destroying him) and he later follows her into outer space.
While in outer space, the two robots work together to help the humans return to earth. (After 700 years of living in micro-gravity , the humans are a bit of a mess. They’re fat, lazy and rely on their robots to help them with practically everything!) As the drama unfolds (let’s just say that not every robot wants the humans to return to Earth), WALL-E and Eve fall in love. Their little “kiss” and dance in space around the ship is especially touching. I won’t share everything (like the ending!), but I will say that it’s a happy, hopeful one.
In addition to the movie, the DVD has many bonus features along with the standard deleted scenes. There is a funny little animated short (7:35 minutes) called “BURN-E”. BURN-E stands for Basic Utility Repair Nano Engineer. They are the repair robots that are used to maintain the Axiom (where the humans were living for the 700 years). This particular one was accidentally locked outside of the ship by WALL-E and EVE. It’s a series of amusing “errors” as he tries his hardest to get back inside with varying degrees of success. My favorite bonus feature though is “WALL-E’s Treasures and Trinkets”. In it, WALL-E does a variety of cute/funny things. He hula-hoops around his neck, robot–dances, plays sports, has “encounters” with a fire hydrant and vacuum cleaner and much more — very adorable!
The last thing that I want to write about this 3-disc special edition DVD is that the third disc is actually a digital copy of the movie that you can use iTunes or Windows Media to transfer and watch the movie on your computer, video iPod, iPhone, etc. (Although I’m so non-techy/ don’t have an ianything, I think that’s a really neat addition to the set!)
