I got the opportunity to take my family to see Wall-e on opening weekend on Friday. I’m a huge Pixar fan and we always try to go opening night. In fact, Pixar movies are what got me back into being interested in my own artwork. I even began training myself as an animator and did a really small short movie. (See embedded video below).

Ultimately it was going to be way too time consuming to become an animator, especially with a family to support. But I finally made my way back to comics. But I digress…

At Pixar they say “Story is King.” Yes they have wonderful animators and special effects, but it’s truly the stories that make it all shine. I’ve been so busy I haven’t really been following all the Wall-e hype, so I didn’t really know what to expect, which was great.

It really was nothing like I expected. Wall-e is truly an endearing character and the little romance between him and Eve is incredibly touching. I don’t want to give anything away, so go see this gem for yourself. It will be another staple in my movie library for sure.

It seems to me that the animators keep getting better and better, and the special effects keep breaking new ground. And as a fan of well, robots…ahem… the robots in the film were great. Go see it!

Here’s my little short I did a few years ago.

Man I love Pixar. They just know how to do it right. Coming up on the Wall-e DVD is going to be another short called Burn-e. If you remember in the film, Burn-e was a little guy who went to fix this light outside the ship. Well the short film tells the story of his mishaps that you don’t see that happen while the film is progressing.

It’s simply brilliant. They cut to the scenes of the movie to give you the exact sense of timing of when all this is happening. The comedic beats are great, and Burn-e is cute beyond comprehension. It gives you the feeling like you are watching lost scenes from the movie, which is what I am sure they intended, a kind of little side story.

In any event, io9.com has actually posted the film in two parts on their site if you want to see it. It’s in some foreign language unfortunately, and the quality is not good, but you can watch the whole thing. I can’t wait til this DVD comes out, I loved the film as well.

Watch it here. I’m not sure if they can legally post that so it may not be there for long, who knows.