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Before you
start in on what the best movie of our year has been so far, I’ll just
declare straight that “Wall E” may not only be the best movie of the
year, but also one of the finest PIXAR has ever created. Intelligent and
bold without alienating its target audience, “Wall E” is that movie that
dwarves talking animals flicks blowing away the likes of chimps in space
and a kung fu panda. “Wall E” is a magnificent global conscious
adventure about the utterly adorable helper robot who doesn’t know that
he doesn’t have to clean up what was once considered our home planet.
Now a haven for garbage, Wall E staves off boredom by collecting trash,
mingling with his pet roach, and watching “Hello Dolly!” every chance he
gets. “Wall E” is such a visceral animated work of art with a bit of an
art house twist with the first half hour consisting of no dialogue but
garners an homage to the physical comedy of the twentieth century.
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While talking bears are… (I
want to say sickening) cute and all, “Wall E” braves an extraordinary
look thanks to its courage in taking its fans seriously and garnering a
potentially iconic hero. As for the eco-friendly DVD, there are
loads of gimmicky sometimes middling specials that are really just there
for the adults while tossing some scraps to the child audience. For Disc
One we’re given the hilarious opening short toon named “Presto” a
nostalgic introduction to the movie that involves a rambunctious rabbit
and the difficulties he provides his struggling magician master.
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At seven and a half
minutes “Burn-E” is the look in to the clean militant robot we’re
introduced to who inevitably becomes detrimental to the film’s climax.
As the film, the animation is incredible while carrying on the spirit of
Wall-E’s adventure in space. “Animation Sound Design” is the eighteen
minute look at the wizardy of using sound as a form of communications to
audiences who’d never seen a nearly silent computer animated film
before. At nine minutes the Deleted Scenes there are three with optional
commentary, and I have to say that the loss isn’t very terrible. While
they’re cute scenes they just hold up progression of the story with
meaningless conflict. There’s also a full feature commentary by director
Andrew Stanton and a minute Sneak at the Wall-E Tour of the Universe.
It’s a bold movie with
Disney once again testing the good faith and maturity of its target
audience to bring us a brilliant incredible animated film given a
fantastic DVD treatment with Eco- Friendly parts to boot.
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