WALL-E (2 Disc Special Edition with Slinky, Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) | 
| Director: Andrew Stanton
Actors: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Fred Willard, John Ratzenberger, Jeff Garlin
Studio: Disney
Category: DVD
Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 330
Format: Pal
Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.7 x 2.7
EAN: 8717418191122
ASIN: B001F0QBU2
Release Date: November 24, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Amazon.co.uk Reviews
Pixar genius reigns in this funny romantic comedy, which stars a robot who says absolutely nothing for a full 25 minutes yet somehow completely transfixes and endears himself to the audience within the first few minutes of the film. As the last robot left on earth, Wall-E (voiced by Ben Burtt) is one small robot--with a big, big heart--who holds the future of Earth and mankind squarely in the palm of his metal hand. He's outlasted all the "Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class" robots that were assigned some 700 years ago to clean up the environmental mess that man made of earth while man vacationed aboard the luxury spaceship Axiom. Wall-E has dutifully gone about his job compacting trash, the extreme solitude broken only by his pet cockroach, but he's developed some oddly human habits and ideas. When the Axiom sends its regularly scheduled robotic EVE probe (Elissa Knight) to earth, Wall-E is instantly smitten and proceeds to try to impress EVE with his collection of human memorabilia. EVE's directive compels her to bring Wall-E's newly collected plant sprout to the captain of the Axiom and Wall-E follows in hot pursuit. Suddenly, the human world is turned upside down and the Captain (Jeff Garlin) joins forces with Wall-E and a cast of other misfit robots to lead the now lethargic people back home to earth. Wall-E is a great family film with the most impressive aspect being the depth of emotion conveyed by a simple robot--a machine typically considered devoid of emotion, but made so absolutely touching by the magic of Pixar animation. Also well-worth admiring are the sweeping views from space, the creative yet disturbing vision of what strange luxuries a future space vacation might offer, and the innovative use of trash in a future cityscape. Underneath the slapstick comedy and touching love story is a poignant message about the folly of human greed and its potential effects on earth and the entire human race. --Tami Horiuchi, Amazon.com
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Language options December 3, 2008
C. X. Linton-Willoughby (UK)
Language options are English, Hindi and Hebrew; sub-titles are English, Hindi and Hebrew, plus English for the Hard of Hearing.
Tiny slinky! November 28, 2008
P. McParlin (Cardiff, Wales)
The film is fantastic, one of my all time favourites, but why is the free slinky so small - it won't even go down my stairs, surely this is the defining reason slinkies exist?!?
Brilliant! November 27, 2008
P. Jefferd (UK)
The film is yet again a Pixar classic. Unfortunately the Slinky sucks! It's pathetically small and won't even go down a flight of stairs. Please, save your money and buy from somewhere that doesn't have the slinky, it's not worth the disappointment.
Pixar's most adult film to date November 25, 2008
Fletch (Wiltshire, UK)
Wall-E what a great film aimed square at the Children's market but containing so much more for Adults than previous Pixar films (possibly Pixar's most adult film to date). How can you make a robots story so sad so human and yet keep the integrity of the story, it's a skill that Pixar have carried off.
As a bonus you get the Pixar short presto one of the funniest of the shorts produced so far. Along with a further shorts and straight to this DVD stuff related to the film. As usual there are so many extras on this two disc set you won't find yourself putting this down for some time.
 you will love the robot , but the film is too long November 19, 2008
phil mars (WALES--UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Brilliant animation, endearing central 'character', nice plot line, and the environmental issues are well handled , and not rammed down your throat - consequently they will be lost on most of the kids that watch it , I suspect - nevertheless , it's good to see it in mainstream cinema , and you never know, subliminally....................
However , the intensity and pace of the action really got to me about 3/4 of the way through, and 1/2 hour of it could have been cut out ( and I don't usually have attention span problems - it was the same in Ratatouille - why do the always overdo a good thing? - it's for kids for god's sake, they are happy with a shorter film ).
see it though!
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