Wall-E [DVD] [2008]

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Behind the Scenes – Six exclusive featurettes give fans an insider's view of the making of WALL•E, including the film's visual design, character development and musical score, plus the story behind the special effects challenges and a look at building the robot characters that populate the film. When WALL-E shows EVE all his collected items, all the lights he has collected light up to give an inviting atmosphere, like a Christmas tree. Michael Crawford and Marianne McAndrew appear in an archival recording performing "It Only Takes a Moment" from Hello, Dolly!

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I'm probably one of the few critics who will admit that, despite their enormous historical significance, Chaplin and Keaton movies are more of a chore than a treat. An unadvertised bonus found in the Set Up menu is "Maximize Your Home Theater", which takes some basic video/audio tests and makes them awesome with imagery from various Pixar movies and shorts. It’s the twenty-ninth century, and humans have long since fled Earth for outer space, leaving WALL•E, the last functioning trash-compacting robot, to go about the work of cleaning up a pollution-choked planet, one piece of garbage at a time. A carefully programmed robot in the form of the ship’s steering wheel, Auto’s manner is cold, mechanical, and seemingly dutiful to the captain.

Ford of The American Conservative said WALL-E 's conservative critics missed lessons in the film that he felt appealed to traditional conservatism. Ralph Eggleston noted this feature gave the animators more to work with and gave the robot a childlike quality. Mistaking the process for torture, WALL·E intervenes and inadvertently releases all the other faulty bots, causing him and EVE to be designated as rogues. On February 4, 2015, Lego announced that a WALL-E custom built by lead animator Angus MacLane was the latest design approved for mass production and release as part of Lego Ideas. Small quantities of merchandise were sold for WALL-E, as Cars items were still popular, and many manufacturers were more interested in Speed Racer, which was a successful product line despite the film's failure at the box office.

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Eggleston divided the inside of the ship into three sections; the rear's economy class has a basic gray concrete texture with graphics keeping to the red, blue, and white of the BnL logo. Charming robot antics act as counterbalance to the fairly epic developments surrounding the human race and the discovery that may relieve them from their rut of doom. Claiming less shelf space than a standard keepcase, the thin holographic cardboard box easily extends on both sides to reveal symmetrical trays that fold open to reveal bonus features and scene lists. Landfills were filling up very rapidly worldwide, and predictions were made that the UK could run out of landfill space by 2017.

It’s not gaudy, but there’s a lot more color in Act Two than most people anticipate," explains production designer Ralph Eggleston. If the schlocky Happy Feet could win that award for seemingly no greater reason than some halfhearted environmentalism, then WALL•E should be a lock. A few notable critics have argued that the film is vastly overrated, [117] claiming it failed to "live up to such blinding, high-wattage enthusiasm", [118] and that there were "chasms of boredom watching it", in particular "the second and third acts spiraled into the expected". So he plugs in a cord and turns on the Christmas lights he’s got strung all over and you immediately feel we’re in this nice, cozy intimate interior and this is WALL•E’s date night. The robot would be the loneliest character Pixar had worked with, and the filmmakers crafted ways for him to perform the first act entirely in pantomime.

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This film has a very unique DVD case: rather that have the case be made of plastic with paper cover art inside a soft plastic pouch that opens like a book and contained within a paperboard slipcover, WALL-E's DVD case is made entirely out of paperboard and has the DVD tray slide out of the case (a special hinge inside the case prevents it from falling out).Originally, the humans were gelatinous, unintelligible alien blobs (sort of like the characters from the short Lifted). Meanwhile, WALL•E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most imaginative adventures ever brought to the big screen. The idea of WALL-E losing his memory and personality came after the braintrust team abandoned a scene where EVE had been shot in her heart battery and WALL-E gave her his own battery instead. He would have then revived her by replacing her power unit with a cigarette lighter he brought from Earth. If those disc counts and the number of releases seem high, it is because Disney is jumping on the digital copy bandwagon.

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Eventually, fingers, legs, clothes, and other characteristics were added until they arrived at the concept of being fetus-like to allow the audience to see themselves in the characters. Eggleston tried to avoid the colors yellow and green so WALL-E—who was made yellow to emulate a tractor—would not blend into the deserted Earth, and to make the plant more prominent. The film is dedicated to Justin Wright (1981–2008), a Pixar animator who had worked on Ratatouille and died of a heart attack before WALL-E 's release. E-notes: Thomas Newman gives a chilling workout in 'Revolutionary Road' and some robotic impulses in 'WALL-E' ". The former (3:10) simply turns Kiki Thorpe's Seussian picture book into an animated storybook read by Mary (Kathy Najimy).

After six years of championing DVD with wonderful two-disc editions, Pixar decided to start stiffing the format when Blu-ray was unveiled. Life of a Shot: Deconstructing the Pixar Process" (5:07) gives us a new way of appreciating Pixar filmmaking, with a parade of artists revealing their specific contributions to a few of WALL•E's 1500 shots.