| | |  | Home Improvement | Home » » Wall-E (Single-Disc Edition) | | | | | | | Description: | | The highly acclaimed director of Finding Nemo and the creative storytellers behind Cars and Ratatouille transport you to a galaxy not so far away for a new cosmic comedy adventure about a determined robot named Wall-E.
After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, the curious and lovable Wall-E discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named Eve. Join them and a hilarious cast of characters on a fantastic journey across the universe. Transport yourself to a fascinating new world with Disney-Pixar's latest adventure, now even more astonishing on DVD and loaded with bonus features, including the exclusive animated short film Burn-E. Wall-E is a film your family will want to enjoy over and over again.
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• The highly acclaimed director of FINDING NEMO and the creative storytellers behind CARS and RATATOUILLE transport you to a galaxy not so far away for a new cosmic comedy adventure about a determined robot named WALL-E. After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, the curious and lovable WALL-E discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. Join them
| | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Ben Burtt, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, Elissa Knight, John Ratzenberger | | Director:
| Andrew Stanton | | Format:
| AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| WALT DISNEY VIDEO | | Run Time:
| 98 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| November 18, 2008 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 845 reviews |
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 I cannot notice the difference between blue ray and dvd...Feb 28, 2010
I was expecting more quality image definition, but unfurtenately blue looks like dvd!! it's no to much the resolution quality...
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WALL-EFeb 21, 2010
The movie is great, but the DVD case is a flimsy paper case instead of an actual jewel case. Disappointed in the packaging.
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 WALL-E: A Simple Way to Present Deep ThoughtFeb 14, 2010
WALL-E depicts the earth and human after 700 years in a creative perspective, when the earth becomes a huge trash bin and human beings lose their basic biological ability on a spaceship. The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up a waste-covered Earth far in the future. He eventually falls in love with another robot named EVE, and follows her into outer space on an adventure that changes the destiny of both his kind and humanity. WALL-E distorts people's stereotype of animated films, which are known as childish and peripheral without profound thought. Although WALL-E has some humorous and pleasant plots to entertain the audience, it is an influential and inspiring film because it provokes deep thinking by challenging the benefit of technology, impresses the audience by true love between WALL-E and Eve, and sends a hope by finding a balance between people and machines
WALL-E works like a tale story to make people be conscious of some negative influence of advanced technology when enjoying the interesting love story between two robots. One question would catch people's mind after they watch the film, what is the true benefit of technology? In the film, people sit on automatic chairs and are extremely obese. Since people don't have enough physical exercises, pear-like human even lose their ability to walk and work normally. In the film, human is no longer a dominant factor to forward the plot, but an ironic component used by the director to invoke the audience's thought.
The film also encourages the audiences to imagine a world filled with trash, and we, human beings, have no place to live. When the camera zooms into the details of the earth, people soon find out that the high buildings on earth are actually countless piles of trash. The sharp contrast leads people to rethink the value of modernization, which can turn our beautiful and vigorous earth into a huge trash bin. Although it is an animated film, WALL-E ignites people's consciousness of protecting our earth from pollution.
Different from other animated films made specifically for young kids, WALL-E shows a romantic love story between two robots. Although love is an everlasting theism in many films, how to express true and pure love through a 90- minute film can never be an easy topic for directors. But the robotic love in the film teaches the audience how to treasure their own love in daily life. The love between WALL-E and Eve breaks the traditional mode of Hollywood love story, which consists of romantic oath and affectionate hug between two lovers. In WALL-E, their words are limited, their emotions are hard to express, and even their sexual distinction is not clarified. But as the story forward, the audiences are deeply moved by their romantic love. When WALL-E falls in love with Eve, what he wants to give Eve is happiness and safety. In order to save Eve from danger, WALL-E leaves his home, gets to a distant planet and stays with Eve without hesitation. His brevity to seek true love moves every people.
The robotic love story becomes especially precious for its purity, because more and more people consider money and wealth as part of romance and marriage. WALL-E is a good teacher of true love, because he knows what pure love is and how to be romantic. Though WALL-E does some funny and awkward actions to win Eve's heart, their impressive story redefines modern people's understanding of love, which actually means sacrifice for each other without asking for return.
WALL-E also gives us a positive and hopeful future. With a warm ending of bright future, WALL-E shows its main theism that our life can be better when people can live harmoniously with different animals and work compatibly with machines. The ending sequence sends a signal of hope that we can find a balance between advanced technology and people without downside. The film uses picturesque and poetic images to show the earth after rebuilding. On the new-born earth, there are no more high buildings, no more factories and no more pollution. Birds are chipping, people are singing, and the two main characters are living together. What the earth has are green plants, vibrant animals and energetic people, who are working compatibly with machines. Although the future world in the film is utopian, it successfully sets up an ideal idea to have a biological balance between human and nature, so that people can live peacefully with all the creatures in the world.
WALL-E has received nearly unanimous acclaim by film critics since its release. WALL-E won the 2008 Golden Globe Award for best animated film and ranks first in Time's "best movies of the decade". The huge success of WALL-E proves that animated films can also show profound thought. The film incorporates several major concerns in the real world, including modernization, love and harmonium, into one 90-minute animated film. Since WALL-E can put the audiences into deep thinking about their life and values, it is more than a simple film made for young kids. WALL-E actually explores the future of humanity in a pleasant atmosphere.
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Pixar's science-fiction love story is a genuine masterpieceFeb 12, 2010
Sifting through the lifeless rubble of a fallen civilization, a small unprepossessing scavenger robot named "Wall-E" dutifully fulfills his repetitive tasks. Watching how he sets certain items aside, and then later uses them for his own purposes, we begin to get a sense that Wall-E has a level of freedom and personality that is not traditionally associated with robots. He does not have much to say, however, until he meets another creature, somewhat like himself, the beautiful and frightening Eve. Eve has come from the stars to pursue her own vocation: searching for life on the devastated planet. Sleek and polished as she is, Wall-E falls for her immediately, even though she has no interest in a creature as insignificant as he. Wall-E's longing to be with his beloved Eve drives the rest of film through an exciting adventure that impacts the future of the entire planet and even the degenerate human race.
The animation is just breathtaking during the opening sequences, levels off a bit as the story leaves the planet and goes on board ship, but still maintains a very high quality throughout. The story - as much a love story as a science-fiction/fantasy - is sweet, funny, and emotionally engaging for both kids and adults alike, and featuring graphics this impressive, Wall-E is well worth getting to know. Superb.
Wall-E and Engaging CultureFeb 11, 2010
I love the Disney/Pixar movies. I own every one. I eagerly anticipate them when a new one is released. It was no different when they began advertising Wall-E. But Wall-E was like no other Disney/Pixar ever made. Though most of their movies tell some heart -warming story with a moral, Wall-E was much different. In a day and age where global warming and life-after-people are hot topics, Wall-E gave us a vision of what this might actually look like, wrapped up in a G-rated, "meant for kids" format.
Though meant to be a children's film, there's argument that parents will get more from the messages being sent. It's even arguable that the first half will hold the attention of this ADD generation. With its sparse dialogue, and at times complicated story line, kids just may lose interest before having a chance to see the whole thing. What moral conversations might they miss out on?
There are many social commentaries that Wall-E brings up. First, the desolation of earth and the lack of humans inhabiting it. Outliving his intended position, Wall-E continues to do what he was created to do - gather and compact garbage. But while doing that even Wall-E sees that not everything is trash but finds value, beauty and joy in common, everyday objects. We as humans have been blessed with free-will, intelligence, and creativity. But, as depicted in this movie, we can glean that self-destruction can come from these things just as easily. The world's inhabitants didn't die off but were driven off by their need for stuff. In this story a mega-store called Buy n Large (need I draw the comparison to WalMart?) encouraged this consumerism attitude, thus filling the earth with their mega stores and garbage. The end result was the "stuff" overtaking the earth and the need to create a space station to save the human race. In return, humans became fat, lazy, self-absorbed, convenience hungry addicts. Most are oblivious to the world actually happening around them. They are physically, emotionally, and mentally fed by technology and the newest generation of specialized machines. This included Eve, a research probe sent to earth who also grabs the heart and attention of Wall-E.
We see in their romance a theme of getting back to the simple things of life. This is actually the running theme to the whole movie. From the artifacts of the past that Wall-E collects while still on earth to the captain learning what farming and dancing is. The captain sums it up himself when he exclaims, "I don't want to survive! I want to LIVE!"
Have we as a society become consumed with convenience, entertainment, and technology that we have missed out on the simple things of life? Has it taken a children's movie about the future and the rise of technology to bring that to light? Where is God in all of this? Maybe that's the missing link. In our search to find our purpose, our way in life we attempt to fill the void we feel with "stuff". The pace just continues to amp up in our attempts to find happiness in the consumerism. In John 14:6, Christ tells us that He is the way, the truth, and the life. We scurry back and forth seeking happiness in games, entertainment, and valuables, when real happiness is found in our relationship with God. Wall-E and Eve, creations of the future remind us of the simple things we have lost. Technology, the convenience we've created, are not bad in themselves. The same drive to create new things and improve upon the old (or buy, sell, and collect) can create the potential for disaster. But it can also push us to an appreciation for the simpler things, thus driving us to our Creator and what He has created us for.
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