Blu-ray disc of the week: WALL-E

Is this Pixar's finest ever achievement?

Plot
Humankind has deserted Earth, leaving it a landfill site unable to sustain life. WALL-E is a robot charged with cleaning up the mess. His quirky routine is disrupted by an iPod-shiny robot named EVE who discovers a single plant that could allow humans to return home to earth. She and Wall-E journey through deep space and untold peril to ensure the shrub's safe passage.

The Review
No, it’s not just for kids. It’s for everyone, but most of all it’s for big kids with humungo tellies and a Blu-ray player. Throughout WALL-E, you get a sense of Pixar’s master craftsmen raising the visual bar again and again.

That would count for little if the story wasn’t so perfect, the humour so laugh-out-loud funny, and the characters so sweetly rendered. It would take a hard heart indeed not to be moved by the story of redoubtable little garbage collector WALL-E and beautiful-but-violent lady-robot EVE.

The near-silent first half of the film in particular is probably the best hour of celluloid this year – lyrical, heart-rending and daring. There’s a message about taking care of the planet in there as well, if that’s your bag, but it never feels preachy. Just lovely.

A Blu-ray buy?
With so little actual dialogue, the slightest wink and the deftest touch do so much to humanise these carefully crafted characters. A no brainer.

Extras
The 2-disc edition features a quirky featurette on WALL-E's treasures and trinkets - one of the funniest segments of the film, various behind the scenes docs on the making of the character and an as-always-fascinating commentary from director Andrew Stanton.

WALL-E is available on Blu-ray disc from Play.com from Monday

User Comments

By johnnn08

23|11|2008 05:41

i actually watched the blueray the other day, and its really nice, the movie at first i thought it will be alright, but then i actually got into the movie, and i actually did love it!!
A must watch!!
cheers!

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