Wall-E

WALL-E

Wall-E made its way to theaters along with the short film Presto in 2008. Pixar Animation Studios produced it and Andrew Stanton directed it. Computer animated science fiction in nature, with it being the first Pixar film with live-action characters. The film grossed over $22 million dollars with it first opened in theaters. Wall-e also made 62 million in first weekend. Most of the characters only communicate with body language and robot voices created by Ben Burtt. It also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Film in 2008.

700 years ago, Big N Large Corporation builds a fleet of space cruse ships. The reason that they did this is that the earth has been over whelmed with trash and is no longer livable. Wall-e was made to clean up the world while everyone is on the cruse ships. Wall-e is a loveable robot that has a pet roach is the last ones left on the now deserted earth. Cleaning and collecting everyday the same thing. While he is out one day, he finds a plant and takes it home. A new robot comes to earth on a space ship. Her name is Eve, Wall-e calls her Eve-a, and she is there to see if the earth stable enough to sustain life. Wall-e ends up follows Eve around very curious about her. Wall-e’s pet is plays with her and tickles her making her laugh, also making Wall-e laugh. She goes into defense mode and shots at where she heard him laugh. He runs until he has nowhere to go, when he does she stops and tries to ask what he is. The roach stop her completely, when it goes to him. Eve gives up and leaves him. He follows her around and after day or two they meet back up. Wall-e ends up saving her from a sand storm. They go into the truck and close the door. He shows her collection of gadgets, and last shows her the plant. She goes nuts, then goes in to sleep mode.

Get the Wall-E DVD or get Wall-E on Blu-Ray to see what happens next. There are not a lot of voices in this film. Because the characters are mostly robots. However, the ones that Elissa Knight as Eve, Jeff Garlin as Captain B. McCrea, Sigourney Weaver as the Axiom’s computer, and Fred Willard as Shelby Forthright. Also John Ratzenberger and Kathy Najimy as John and Mary.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Nightmare Before Christmas is one movie I know young and old will watch. I have seen many teens and people in there twenties go nuts over this film. It was produced 1993 as a stop motion film, directed by Henry Selick. Tim Burton is the co-writer and producer of the film. If you don’t know who Tim Burton is than you are in for a twisted world of fun. Tim Burton has done Beetlejuice, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure and many more. The film was released under Touchstone Pictures, a Disney owned company. And later re-released under Disney in later years. The reason for this is that they thought it too Nightmarish for Disney movie watchers. Tim Burton is know for his wild and crazy movies. He is in his own dark and twisted world with these movies. But there are great to watch when you love his style of work. Nightmare is a holiday favorite, does not matter if you watch it for Halloween or Christmas it wonderful for both.


Halloween Town is celebrating another successfully horrifyingly scary Halloween. It of course begins with a song introducing the Pumpkin King Jack Skellington. After the song has ended Jack goes off toward his mansion on the hill. He seems sad and says he wants something different not the same old thing. He ends up going past his house to the woods where he goes through the graveyard to get his ghost dog Zero. Where not known to him Sara the rag doll is watching him from behind a grave stone. She is a creation of the mad scientist in the wheelchair and she is always trying to get away from him, because she hates not being able to do things. Jack keeps walking leaving the graveyard behind and ends up in the woods. He has walked for hours before he reaches a clearing in the trees. It is a ring of magical trees that have doors the shape of holidays, Halloween Town being one of them. But what gets his interest is the door shaped like a Christmas tree. He ends up wanting to take over Christmas, but all goes haywire.

It has the voices of Chris Sarandon, Catherine O’Hara, William Hickey, Ken Page and Glen Shadix. Vincent a short film is also included on the DVD, also a few other goodies. Buy the movie to see what happens when Halloween tries to take over Christmas. You will not be disappointed.

Buy the Special edition DVD from The Cartoon Store. Also available is The Nightmare Before Christmas on Blu Ray