Wall-E (Three-Disc Special Edition + Digital Copy)

Buy This Item Wall-E (Three-Disc Special Edition + Digital Copy) by WALT DISNEY VIDEO  Available from Amazon  $22.99  on 11-26-2008     When my family first saw this movie back in June, my daughter immediately KNEW there was going to be a 3-disc DVD set. "There HAS to be," she told me, "there is just so much stuff they have to put in it." <br /> <br />What a thrill it is to see it's really going to happen. Thank you, Disney, for getting this one right. <br /> <br />"THE PIXAR STORY" <br /> <br />The big news here is the inclusion of "The Pixar Story." Produced in 2007 but rarely seen, this 87-minute film documents the rise of the animation company by combining lots of talking-head interviews with gobs of Pixar animation. Among those recounting stories are Pixar bigwigs Ed Catmull, Michael Eisner, Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, Steve Jobs, John Lasseter and George Lucas. <br /> <br />The documentary has a lot of technical talk, but balances that with lots of rare footage, including clips of some early projects Lasseter created as a college student. One, called "NiteMare," became the basis for the 2001 movie, "Monsters, Inc." "The Pixar Story" is narrated by Stacy Keach. <br /> <br />"The Pixar Story" was produced by Leslie Iwerks, the granddaughter of Disney Legend Ub Iwerks. She also did the superb "The Hand Behind the Mouse," a documentary about her grandfather, which appears as a bonus feature on the DVD set Walt Disney Treasures - The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. <br /> <br />OTHER BONUS FEATURES <br /> <br />Additional features on this 3-disc set relate, of course, to the WALL-E movie. They include: <br />* A digital copy of the film you can transfer to an iPod, iPhone or similar device. <br />* An audio commentary with director Andrew Stanton. <br />* The Pixar short "Presto" that opened for WALL-E in theaters <br />* A second Pixar short, "BURN-E." This is a short about the welder robot who was seen banging his fists against the door of the Axiom spaceship. It was produced at the same time as the movie for inclusion here. <br />* BnL Shorts. Some amusing peeks into the workings of the Buy n Large Corporation. <br />* Deleted scenes (with introductions), including "Garbage Airlock" (WALL-E rescues EVE from being ejected from the ship, then revives her) and "Dumped" (when WALL-E gives the plant to EVE, she realizes she must take it to the bridge so it can be analyzed). <br />* "Animation Sound Design: Building Worlds From The Sound Up." Complete with historic footage, this featurette compares Ben Burtt's work on WALL-E to the sound design in early Disney films. <br />* "WALL-E's Tour of the Universe." The press release says "Join WALL-E on his own private tour of the Universe through the World-Wide Telescope, narrated by Auto-Pilot." <br />* An interactive game, "WALL-E's Treasures and Trinkets." <br />* The "Lots of Bots" storybook, the video re-creation of a cute actual storybook. Reader Reviews This film and "The Dark Knight" have been the only two films that I have bothered to go see so far in 2008. This film is the better of the two. In spite of the fact that the characters are machines, this is a great love story between WALL-E, a trash collecting robot and EVE, a reconnaisance robot. As a reverse of the situation in modern film where we have humans acting like machines - if you call it acting - here we have machines acting human to the point we forget they are machines. In addition, we have a satirical look at the future that doesn't look that impossible or that far into the future, at least as far as the possible state of the earth or humankind is concerned. As usual with Pixar films, there is something for everyone. The adults can enjoy the love story and the sly social commentary, and the kids will enjoy the fun and adventure that is in every Pixar film. I thought Pixar had outdone itself with Ratatouille, but here they've pleasantly surprised me again.

Wall-E (Three-Disc Special Edition + Digital Copy) Available from Amazon Price: $22.99 Updated on 11-26-2008.

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