A high-water mark of digital animation, this prescient vision of a dystopian future is packaged within a dazzling pop-science-fiction love story, making for an urgent fable for our troubled millennium. 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. When he meets EVE, a fellow automaton sent to detect plant life, the pair are launched on an intergalactic quest to return humanity to Earth. Transporting us simultaneously back to cinema’s silent origins and forward light-years into the future, WALL•E is a soaring ode to the power of love and art to heal a dying world.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES 4K digital master, approved by director Andrew Stanton, with Dolby Atmos soundtrack One 4K UHD disc of the film, presented in both Dolby Vision HDR and HDR10+, and two Blu-rays with the film and special features Alternate 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio and stereo soundtracks Two audio commentaries: one featuring Stanton and the other, character supervisor Bill Wise, coproducer Lindsey Collins, story artist Derek Thompson, and lead animator Angus MacLane New programs on Stanton’s cinematic influences and production designer Ralph Eggleston’s color scripts Tour of the Pixar Living Archive with Stanton
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Behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film, including segments from early animation reels The Pixar Story (2007), a documentary by Leslie Iwerks More than a dozen documentaries exploring the film’s production and robots Anatomy of a Scene: The Plant, a masterclass with Stanton “WALL•E”: A to Z, a new program featuring Stanton and coscreenwriter Jim Reardon Deleted scenes featuring commentary by Stanton A Story (1987), a student film by Stanton BURN•E (2008), a short film by MacLane Trailers English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing English descriptive audio PLUS: An essay by author Sam Wasson; selections from Stanton’s sketchbooks, script notes, and drawings; and artwork from the WALL•E team
Would really be ideal. Hopefully this partnership could lead to that kind of thing.
Jackson Allen
>call bullshit >it’s real I don’t know what to say. Wall-E is my favorite animated movie, but… why?
Chase Turner
To give people like you a ton of bonus material on your favorite animated movie? Between that stuff and the commentaries these releases function as a film class in a box.
Ryder Price
Pixar already offered pretty solid box sets for the movie and it looks like all the extras from those sets got ported over.
Older Disney stuff has more potential with this partnership as besides , Disney has a habit of leaving things behind when re-releasing their animation catalog. Like there's a ton of stuff that never even made it out of Laserdisc releases.
Easton Campbell
To make money.
Lucas Perry
I checked the website and all the bonus features are pulled straight from the Disney dvd. The only featurettes explicitly labeled new are “Wall-E A to Z” and the interview about Stanton’s “cinematic influences”. No new commentaries, no new making ofs, no new sound mix, it’s being transferred from 2K to 4K but what does that even mean for a 2008 CG film. I don’t even like the cover art. The movie already has a million releases, and this has basically nothing new except the Criterion logo. I’m really confused by this, if for nothing else than how the Disney partnership even happened.
Nathaniel Torres
Holy cringe
Daniel Turner
Criterion doesn't always bring back old bonus features. For instance, their Citizen Kane blu-ray left out most of the stuff that was on the laserdisc.
Isaac Gomez
I guess so, but I feel like Criterion would be the only ones to bother putting the story reels of rejected sequences onto a hypothetical "Three Caballeros/Saludos Amigos" set.
Brayden Brooks
I'm not a superfan like you, not doubting you or whatever but have seen several people claim one of the commentary tracks are new along w a few bonus features.
Thanks for fact-checking me, but they are the same commentaries from the blu-ray. They are just crediting the people involved with the second one to make it seem more genuine, because Disney called it something like “Geek Trivia commentary”. Criterion’s website always mentions when a feature is new. dvdizzy.com/wall-e-bluray.html
Mason Foster
Not as much of a fact check as getting your response to these anecdotal comments, which I appreciate. You know your shit. As another user said it's ultimately for money like everything else I guess. $20 (half off sales several times throughout the year) for the newest version which collects all bonus material, a booklet and bump to 4k, for those that don't own it yet maybe, doesn't seem so bad.
William Morris
I’m over the shock of it, and disappointment in how little new there is. Even if it’s not for me, it’s good for people that never had the dvd because some of the bonus features are interesting, and they might as well choose a 4K.
I’m suspicious of any partnership with Disney, but honestly if it gets more people to buy the release that’s more money for Criterion to do restorations of movies that seriously need it and keep their cool streaming service afloat, so I don’t mind.
Daniel Campbell
Pointless release They need to do a PROPER 4k restoration of the really old 2d films, not a film that came out 14 years ago
Kayden Turner
If they ever do Ratatouille I'll definitely pick that shit up.
Cameron Watson
last criterion shit i watched was that Godzilla collection
Parker Rivera
No surprise. Criterion has been cringe since Tiny Furniture.
Luke Moore
Wall e is a good movie and all but i agree, theres virtualy nothing to remaster here
Hopefully this leads to more
Carson Morris
I would literally pay for streaming if all this bonus shit was included in the apps. The few behind the scenes and commentary tracks on Disney+ are few and far between and older titles just don't have them, other services that don't own all their content have none. I'm rarely interested in tracking this stuff down on torrent sites but I would watch so much of this stuff it was all easily assessable in one place
Nathan Phillips
Best Pixar movie gets the criterion treatment, nice
