Wall-E might be our favorite Pixar film, and this review is a rave. As we usually do with this Pixar series, we enjoy a few extra segments. We recap the History of the Pixar Company, breakdown their 22 Rules of Storytelling, and discuss our many Heartbreaks & Happiness moments. How Our Pixar Shows Work - 3:02 NON-SPOILER SECTION Cast and Crew - 4:07 How Pixar Got Here - 7:15 Production Nuggets - 12:13 Movie Specs - 16:56 Plot Premises/Expectations - 22:30 Production Values: Sight - 23:50 Sound - 26:08 Performances - 29:35 Script Thoughts - 33:16 A Nonpolitical Political Commentary - 35:40 Spoiler Warning - 36:24 SPOILER-FILLED SECTION Pixar’s 22 Rules of Screenwriting No. 10 - 37:44 Scenes of Heartbreak/HeartWarming - 40:19 Happy Pills + Highlights - 45:09 The Role and Portrayal of Humans - 47:59 Lack of Worsts and Best Of Pixar -51:04 Your Homework/Words of Wisdom/Social Media - 52:18 You won’t believe the homages to 1960’s & 70’s cinematic history. Pixar proved once again that they’re unafraid of massive risks. After hit after hit, they made a 200 million dollar silent movie about a robot falling in love with another robot set in perhaps the darkest dystopian universe we’ve ever seen in a non-rated R film. Are you kidding me? It’s also one of the most ambitious films from a production standpoint. We breakdown all of the behind the scenes animation innovations in non-spoilers, and then we have more insight into the storytelling principles on display with our analysis of Rule 10 of Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling. We close with a bunch of great scenes that both break our hearts and make us happy as we relive the plot, and it’s perhaps our most gushy review yet in this re-watch. If you enjoyed this episode, do click on our other Pixar film reviews. We’re doing shows on all 20 movies in the lead up to Toy Story 4. Some episodes feature one film, some two, and we’ll even have an upcoming episode reviewing all three Cars movies. Thus far, we’ve reviewed Toy Story, Monsters Inc & Monsters University, A Bug’s Life, The Incredibles & The Incredibles 2, Finding Nemo & Finding Dory, and Ratatouille. Wall-E marks our 7th episode in the series, and we’ve also included our recent 1995/96’ Best Original Song category overview on Toy Story’s “You’ve Got a Friend in Me,” and our Oscar Sprint Profile review of Incredibles 2 in “The Films of Pixar” playlist now on Soundcloud. It’s been a joyous re-watch so far. We hope you enjoy. Don’t forget to tune into our first live show this Saturday night at 6pm eastern time on Twitch. We’re doing an hour with the Livestream for a Cure 3 day event, hoping to raise funds towards cancer research. Enjoy constant programming from a bunch of our friends and podcasters including the Epic Film Guys. If you can donate a few bucks, we’d also greatly appreciate it. As always, we want to know what you think of these Pixar films. We’re at MMandOscar on Twitter, and we are on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. You can subscribe / rate / review / like / share / & listen to us on iTunes, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, Spotify, and just about wherever you listen to podcasts. When reality sucks, keep watching movies with us. We’re Mike, Mike, & Oscar!