Buy Wall-E
Samedi, juillet 3rd, 2010
Not yet listed on the Amazon page, here are the goodies that will be in this 3-disc version:
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Standard bonus material:
director’s commentary,
deleted scenes,
short film: Presto,
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new short: BURN*E,
“Animation Sound Invent”,
“WALL*E’s Tour of the Universe”;
Exclusive to the 3-Disc Special Edition DVD:
more deleted scenes,
making-of featurettes,
BnL shorts,
documentary film The Pixar Anecdote,
“WALL*E’s Treasures and Trinkets”,
“Lots of Bots”
DisneyFile digital copy.
I am floored. I didn’t contemplate it was possible for Pixar to surpass Toy Anecdote, but it has. A sophisticated treat for adults and teens, a cuddly romance for the juice-box state, this comedic science fiction thriller romance (really!) takes the company to a fresh, more archaic level. Filled with artistry, depth, meaning and a lot of humor, WALL-E is a masterpiece. Where Cars was a kid’s movie with added adult themes, this is an adult movie with added value for children.
DIALOGUE SCHMIALOGUE
Before I saw WALL-E I had read about the lack of dialogue, and how it might be a uncertain disappear for Pixar to acquire a film with characters that don’t talk in a passe sense. Well, trash that. The most emotionally distinguished scenes in this movie are those with the LEAST dialogue. Fully developed and indeed almost human, the two main characters are Wall-E himself (the letters stand for Ruin Allocation Load Lifter-Earth Class; there’s also a WALL-A) and EVE (Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator), two machines in care for.
After about a half hour I was wondering if Pixar could continue to pull off this less-is-more thought for the rest of the film — then the two robots started playing Pong! Such imaginative screenplay carries the film to what should be a Best Relate nomination. Seriously.
A TOUCHING STORY
WALL-E is a lonely petite robotic trash compactor who was left unhurried after Earth was abandoned some 700 years earlier. He has been methodically cleaning up the trash-ridden planet ever since, and harboring a dinky plant he has found among the garbage. Eve, meanwhile, lives on the expansive spaceship Axiom, which is also home to the rotund, blob-like remains of the human urge. She is a probe robot that flies to Earth to resolve if the planet is ready for habitation. WALL-E takes one glance at the streamlined, angelic Eve and falls in adore.
It didn’t engage long for me to topple in appreciate with the microscopic robot. As soon as he giggled (after his pet cockroach gratified him) I was twisted. This hardworking rusty guy with his slight home fat of composed treasures is so poignant. His lonely life is so human. Eve is unbiased as likable, but worthy more sleek. Advance the ruin comes a heartbreaking moment when a key character seems to lose all personality, all self. So well done, it made me contemplate of how families must feel when a loved one disappears inside him- or herself with Alzheimer’s disease.
All ends well, of course. As the credits roll, the artwork illustrates how everyone and everything lives happily after ever.
AN ADULT MEANING
For adults, WALL-E is not so remarkable about a cute diminutive robot as it is about the future of man. What happens when humans become such creatures of the consumer culture, so rotund they can’t even stand up without assistance, living literally on auto-pilot, that they do nothing but catch cheap merchandise, stuff their faces at the Regurgitated Food Buffet and lie around watching video screens? Can they ever come by serve to the land and dwelling their souls free? Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young asked that request decades ago; Pixar asks it today.
There is even a sly political reference. Broadcasting a message to the passengers of the spaceship, the CEO of monster corporation Select ‘n’ Colossal — played in live-action by the inimitable Fred Willard, and named Shelby Forthright — says they will be continuing on their never-ending, hopeless waft to nowhere because they must “Quit the course!” Hmmm, haven’t I heard a president employ that line?
EXTRA TOUCHES
WALL-E has so many astounding touches! After the shrimp robot is charged using his solar panels, he “turns on” with a sound any Macintosh owner will scrutinize. The robot’s level-headed objects, noteworthy like the thingamabobs of The Minute Mermaid’s Ariel, are things that are uniquely human: bubble wrap, an iPod, a Rubics cube, a singing plastic trophy fish and — blink and you’ll miss it — a carrousel horse from Walt Disney World. Especially inspired are the two things on this future Earth that are totally indestructible: a cockroach and Twinkies.
Stay for the credits. Recalling cave drawings, hieroglyphics, Monet and Van Gogh paintings and early computer graphics, the progressive sequence of art within them sneaks in the history of dialogue-free storytelling.
ANIMATED? REALLY?
The leer of the movie is hard to characterize. In one scene, when WALL-E and EVE are investigating a fragment of bubble wrap, you can’t suppose it is an intriguing film. It actually appears to be live-action. Likewise, the outer station scenes have the same level of realism as any of the Star Wars movies. The trailing tower of squiggly smoke that’s left leisurely by a launching spacecraft re-creates the Florida sky of a State Shuttle commence to a T. For the most section, it is only when humans are portrayed that you are consciously aware that what you’re watching was generated on circuit boards, not in cameras.
I’ve seen the movie three times, first in digital projection and then from a film projector. The digital showing was noteworthy sharper, which made all the realistic touches far easier to luxuriate in.
MOVIE REFERENCES
It’s certain the Pixar folks are movie lovers; there are so many cinematic inspirations in WALL-E that I lost count. The “Establish On Your Sunday Clothes” sequence from Hello, Dolly! shows up — literally — maybe half a dozen times. (Disney World fans may also remember the song as one of the background melodies along Main Street U.S.A.) The Axiom spaceship’s computer is clearly an homage to HAL from 2001: A Situation Odyssey; that film’s signature overture “Also Sprach Zarathustra” plays at a key moment. WALL-E himself combines the purrs of E.T., the attitude of R2-D2 and the moves of Charlie Chaplin. There’s a brief reference to Mountainous.
OPENING CARTOON
The movie is preceded by a Pixar short, “Presto,” that had the entire audience I was sitting with in stitches. Its plot: When a magician neglects to feed his bunny a carrot, an escalating peril results. It’s so nice to originate a feature with a cartoon. I wish other studios serene did it. (Disney fans will ticket the magician’s hat is similar to the one feeble by Mickey Mouse in Fantasia.)
SOUVENIR TOY
Might as well budget it in: if you retract your kids to examine this you’re going to be buying a souvenir. Here’s the coolest one I’ve found on Amazon: U Train Wall-E.
Will it ever hurry out? This continuous font of imagination from Pixar? With WALL-E, it obvious doesn’t glimpse like it.
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