Even for Pixar, this might be a first: an animated film that contains not only a fully realized world as photorealistic as it is teeming with wonder, but also the Gargantuan themes and visuals of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, the kind of stripped-down sad-clown pathos reserved for classic Buster Keaton comedies, and one of the most moving love stories in a long time. Director Andrew Stanton kicked up the visual acuity of an already-stellar Pixar Studios in 2003 with his reflective, refractive, color-shimmery realization of FINDING NEMO's oceanic world, which genuinely felt as though it spanned the entire earth. Now, with WALL-E, Stanton replaces an estranged journeyer of an apprehensively fishy disposition with a curious and love-struck robotic one, allowing the quest for eternal love to extend from a desolate, dust-covered, palpably polluted future Earth and into an even more mysterious abyss: the far reaches of outer space.

With virtually no dialogue, WALL-E's neatly contained, eerily vaudevillian first act introduces the tragic robot of the title. Whirring amid dilapidated skyscrapers and equally tall compacted trash heaps, he's the last living thing on Earth (aside from a little cockroach friend). WALL-E has developed a tender and inquisitive personality doing what he was built to do--allocate and dispose of human waste--day in and day out for the past 700 years simply because no one turned him off when the human race left the now-hostile planet. Soon though, the directive-oriented automaton Eve comes crashing into WALL-E's life from above, immediately becoming the object of his infatuation. At the drop of a hat, the little guy follows her back into the dangerous unknown, where the sight of two robots gliding through the cosmic ether, dancing via fire-extinguisher propulsion, joins the many memorable moments of a deceptively simple, expansively romantic story.

DVD Features:

3-Disc Set
Region 1
Keep Case
Special Edition
Letterbox - 1.85
Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
Additional Release Material:
Deleted Scenes
Audio Commentary: Andrew Stanton - Director
Clips/Highlights - WALL-E's Treasures And Trinkets
Behind the Scenes: Making of
Trailers: Sneak Peek: WALL-E's Tour Of The Universe - WALL-E Takes You On A Real Ride Through Space
Shorts:
1. "BURN-E" With Boards - Animated Short With Picture-In-Picture - Director Angus MacLane
2. BnL Shorts -- An Amusing Peek Into The Inner Workings Of The Buy n Large Corporation
3. "Presto" Amazing Animated Theatrical Short Film
Featurette:
1. 1 Bot Files - Get To Know WALL-E's Robot Friends
2. Cine-Explore with Director Andrew Stanton
3. 3-D Set Fly-Throughs - See Film Locations From An All-New Angle
4. Animation Sound Design: Building Worlds From The Sound Up - Legendary Sound Designer Ben Burtt Shares Secrets Of Creating The Sounds Of WALL-E
Interactive Features:
1. Geek Track- Pop-Up Commentary By Pixar's Geek Squad
2. The Axiom Arcade - Video Games With A WALL-E Twist
3. "Lots Of Bots" Storybook - This Imaginative Storybook Comes To Life Loaded With Fun Games
Text/Photo Galleries:
"The Pixar Story" By Leslie Iwerks - An Award-Winning Filmmaker Tells The Riveting Story Of the Innovative Company That Revolutionized Hollywood
Disc 3: DisneyFile Digital Copy

Andrew Stanton: Actor/writer/director, WALL-E, TOY STORY

Jim Morris: Producer, WALL-E

Lindsey Collins: Co-producer, WALL-E

Andrew Stanton: Actor/writer/director, WALL-E, TOY STORY
Jim Reardon: Screenwriter

Thomas Newman: Composer

4 stars out of 4 -- "[E]ngaging and visually stunning....WALL-E is inventive, poignant and funny in its tale of a spunky robot whose name stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth Class."
"WALL-E surely breaks new ground....It is also a disarmingly sweet and simple love story, Chaplinesque in its emotional purity."
"Pixar's latest is wonderful and full of wonder....Daring and traditional, groundbreaking and familiar, apocalyptic and sentimental, WALL-E gains strengths from embracing contradictions..."
"[P]uckishly inventive, altogether marvelous....It whisks you to a new world, then makes that world every inch our own." -- Grade: A
"[E]xceptionally good. In fact it's one of Pixar's best films....The film's joy, though, is the way WALL-E's situation develops in an organic, lyrical, musical way."
5 stars out of 5 -- "WALL-E is a character of genius, as wondrous an example of the potential of animation as you will ever see."
"The best science-fiction movie in years....Hugely entertaining, wonderfully well drawn..."
Ranked #5 in Rolling Stone's 'Movies Of The Year' -- "Director Andrew Stanton and his crew have created a visionary masterpiece."
"Just watching WALL-E putter around earth by himself, crushing trash into neat cubes and listening to his homemade tape of the HELLO, DOLLY! soundtrack is mesmerizing."
Included in Entertainment Weekly's 2008 Films Of The Year -- "Years from now -- yea, unto eternity -- all who love movies will rank WALL-E among the medium's most profound, subtle, sophisticated, and gorgeously inventive specimens, ever."
4 stars out of 4 -- "Animation art at its highest level....You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic."