Blu-ray disc of the week: WALL-E

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 ... (link)