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Wall-E on BluRay Review

This weekend the family sat down to watch Wall-E, Given the anticipation of seeing this movie was fairly high I think I had my expectations set a bit high.
Pixar is very well know for putting out great animated films and this installment was a bit of a disappointment in some ways. Dont get me wrong the quality of the animation was very good in most parts of the film but there seemed to be a somewhat laziness about some of the animated sequences and I found myself getting distracted by them.
This movie is a bit of a yawner at times and even our kids seemed to get board. The nature of this movie has little dialogue for the first half and needs to keep you visually stimulated and it fails to do so. There are some funny parts that even as an adult you cant help but laugh out loud.
I dont know why Disney chooses to do so but almost all there newer animated films have some sort of hidden sexual content that if your not watching for it you would not see it but again in Wall-E there is one part that again had a questionable image (lasts only about 1 second) thats not at all necessary.

Video quality: :3.5stars:
As I mentioned above some parts of the animation seemed rushed and other parts looked great particularly the detail of the reflections off of EVE's outer shell were very well done.
For a BluRay disc I was disappointed in the playback as the new disc I had had issues playing through properly and on several ocations the video would studder and the audio would cut out completely for 5 or so seconds. This is where HD DVD really had it going for it as playback issues were rarely an issue.

Audio: :3stars:
This is what really surprised me, after going into the audio setup options there was no uncompressed audio format available not even DD+ so I had to stick with Dolby Digital 5.1 Disney, What was up with that??
The audio was good and use of the surround channels was plenty and full. The LFE channel was used well but not deep. Not once did I notice my chest or seat really rumble.

Overall enjoyment: :4stars:
The story was interesting and keeps your mind busy but there are parts that just dont have enough going on to keep you focused. I dont know why there was such a fuss made about this movie as its just not as good as it could have been.
Overall its fun and good family entertainment but to buy the BlyRay may be a stretch.

 

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I think the issue here is that animation has become so realistic that at times you forget that it is just that, animation. I agree that some of the content is not appropriate for very young children as you stated Otto. It is clear that this takes place on earth and the destruction that seems to have been caused by man can be a little confusing for children to understand.
Our two youngest are now 2 and 4 years old and the two year old went to bed before we started it and the 4 year old didn't seem to interested, she more enjoyed the popcorn she had.

 

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Check the jacket cover again on the Blu-ray, mine has uncompressed audio with DTS-HD-MA 5.1
I would doubt that they would ship different copies of the movie with only Dolby Digital.

My Jacket says it is DTS HD MA but again there is no option to select it in the audio options nor is it in the list.

 

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Yes, I have watched both DTS MA and TruHD audio encoded movies and all have worked fine. The best movie so far is the new Prince Caspian it has 7.1 DTS MA:T