Earth. 700 hundred years later. It’s a mess. There’s windstorms and no vegetation that can be spotted. There seem to be only two sentient beings on the planet. A cockroach, and Wall*E. Wall*E is a trash compactor who – after years of being left alone – has developed a personality. He collects things. Like lighters and bras, and boxes, and rubik’s cubes. Then, one day Earth gets visited by a ship. It drops off another robot, Eve. Eve’s a tough minded individual who has an itchy trigger finger.

Wall*E is lonely, so he falls for Eve right away. But she takes a while to understand, and when he presents her with a gift of the first plant found on Earth, she goes comatic. It seems her prime directive is to find vegetation, that which proves that Earth is now habitable again. So Wall*E tags along and finds out what’s happened to humanity in the interim. It’s not pretty.

When one sees the latest Pixar film, one expects quality. So far, the worst film they have made is Cars. And that’s not the worst thing, it’s just their most formulaic. Wall*E is another out of the park film, and though Mr. Devin Faraci can suggest that Wall*E is something of a stalker (so, in fact, do some of the commentarians) bordering or crossing the line into creepy, but it doesn’t matter, he still has charm enough to make that a minor concern.

Directed by Andrew Stanton, what’s also really engaging about the film is that it’s cinematic, and allows the characters to not speak. Yes, there’s a lot of silence, but it doesn’t matter. And Wall*E is a charming nebbish. It’s only fitting then that the power structure between Wall*E and Eve is that she’s an independent, strong willed female, and I don’t know if that’s a cliché or what (nerds like dominatrixes, I guess). But the film is magical, and it’s hard not to be overwhelmed by its awesomeness.

Disney loves Blu-ray, and you can tell with this release. The picture quality is amazing, and it strikes that one of the best reasons to have a Blu-ray player is to watch Pixar movies. The film is widescreen (2.35:1) and in 5.1 HD DTS audio. The transfer on this has- got to be the standard to which all other transfers are judged. On the first disc is the film with a commentary by director Stanton in Cine-explore mode (which means you get stills with his talk, and a track with four Pixar employees/nerds who geek out on everything in the feature. On the first disc there’s also the short film “Presto” (5 min.) that accompanied the film theatrically, and the new short “Burn*E” (7 min.) which shows how one of the droids from the film goes about his business. This also comes with a storyboard version. On the first disc is also sneak peas and BD-Live content.

The content on disc two is broken up into two sections, Robots and humans. In the robots section is “Wall*E’s Treasures and Trinkets” (5 min.), which lets the characters interact with more 20th Century appliances, while “Lots of Bots Storybook” offers a storybook (3 min.) and games for the kids. “Axiom arcade” offers “EVE’s Bot Blaster” (Asteroids redux), “Wall*E’s Dodge and Dock” (a landing games), “M-O’s Mod Up Madness,” and Burn*#’s Break Through (Burger Time), “Sneak Peak: Wall*E’s Tour of the Universe” (1 min.)is a website promo while “Bot Files” (9 min.) lets you know more about 28 of the film’s robots.

In Humans there’s four deleted scenes (23 min.) with introductions by Stanton, “The Imperfect Lens: Creating the Look of Wall*E” (15 min.), which talks about the Pixar gang met with Roger Deakins to get the look of the film, “Animation Sound Design: Building Worlds from the Sound Up” (19 min.) gives Ben Burtt his due, while “Captain’s Log: The Evolution of Humans” (8 min.) goes behind how the film was made and how the original conceit for the humans were gelatinous beings. “Notes on a Score” (11 min.) gives composer Thomas Newman his due, while “Life of a Shot: Deconstructing the Pixar Process” (5 min.) gives the minions of Pixar credit for how many people go into each sequence/shot. “Robo-Everything” (6 min.) goes into the ship’s robots and how they were designed, while “Wall*E and EVE” (7 min.) speaks to the lead’s designs. “BnL Shorts” (9 min.) offers five shorts on the fictitious company, while 3D set Fly-Throughs lets you explore ten of the film’s sets. There’s still galleries for character design, layouts and backgrounds, visual development, and publicity, seven trailers, and then – to wrap things up – is “The Pixar Story” (88 min.) which covers the studios inception and its history up until the most recent film. These supplements are entertaining and fascinating, and Stanton seems to be open and honest about the process of making the film. It’s good stuff, and never boring.

Throughout this second disc there’s HD footage of films like Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and Empire Strikes Back. And this footage made my mouth water. There’s also a disc with your own digital copy. This is a must have Blu-ray.