View from the Couch DVD Reviews
November 26, 2008 at 12:54 pm by Caroline Burke in A&EThis week, CL Charlotte’s Matt Brunson discusses the DVD releases of The Gregory Peck Collection, Wall-E and more.
WALL-E (2008). Although this animated effort from Pixar is a treat for the young and old alike, it’s the rare sort of toon tale that may have ended up endearing itself even more to adults than to kids. And it’s not just because grown-ups will enjoy the usual asides tossed their way (e.g. a witty reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey; Aliens star Sigourney Weaver providing the voice of a ship’s computer); it’s also because the plot speaks to them in a way that it can’t to humans who still don’t possess all their permanent teeth. Read the rest here.
(Photo courtesy Walt Disney and Pixar)
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