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BURN·E

BURN·E (2008)

November. 17,2008
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7.6
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G
| Animation Comedy Science Fiction Family

What lengths will a robot undergo to do his job? BURN·E is a dedicated hard working robot who finds himself locked out of his ship. BURN·E quickly learns that completing a simple task can often be a very difficult endeavor.

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Executscan
2008/11/17

Expected more

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Tayyab Torres
2008/11/18

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

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Portia Hilton
2008/11/19

Blistering performances.

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Fleur
2008/11/20

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

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Charles Herold (cherold)
2008/11/21

This DVD extra isn't trying to the sort of brilliance that distinguished Wall-E. It's jut a cute shot that tells a story that runs concurrently with some of Wall-E.There were a couple of years between when I saw Wall-E and when I saw this, and I think that mutes the humor for me. I feel like if I'd just seen the movie and immediately watched this that it would have more resonance.Even then though, this is pretty much of a throwaway. It's cute and mildly humorous, but it doesn't really stand on its own. But if you've just seen the movie, or remember it very distinctly, this is worth taking a look at.

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Prismark10
2008/11/22

Produced as a DVD extra for the movie Wall-E. This gives the animator to make a spin off short and have an excuse to feature scenes from Wall-E.BURN-E is a small repair robot. When an external light is faulty, BURN- E goes to repair it but at each attempt he is thwarted by the arrival of WALL-E or the chaos he creates.The makers do well in giving BURN-E personality in such a short space of time when there is a danger of the character being constantly upstaged by the appearance from WALL-E and the footage from the parent film. Children will of course find this short animation fun.

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Horst in Translation ([email protected])
2008/11/23

I might start by saying that, unlike most movie-goers, I'm not a great fan of the film "Wall-E" at all. But at the same time, I always love a me a decent animation movie and there's some from Pixar that I genuinely enjoy, such as the Toy Story films or the first 15 minutes from "Up". So "Burn-E" shall have his fair chance. And as expected, I was not too wowed by this 8-minute short-film. The animation is good as in every Pixar film, but the story was so messy that it was occasionally even hard to see what exactly was going on. Maybe it was primarily directed at very young children who don't really need a plot to enjoy a movie if the animation is decent and the scenes are funny enough. Not that they actually were. "Wall-E" lovers will probably like it more than myself and enjoy the central character, who looks much more futuristic than Wall-E, all the gimmicks included and cameos from Wall-E, Eve and the obese humans. Admittedly the end sequence including "Freude schöner Götterfunken" made it up for me a bit. It's such a great composition.The film is voiced, written and directed by Angus McLane, who will soon have his first feature film out, a TV movie sequel to the Toy Story franchise. Hopefully, it won't be as underwhelming as this one.

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gtyj1990
2008/11/24

This short feature - that comes on the DVD and Blu-ray disc of WALL-E (2008) - tells the background story of Burn-E (Basic Utility Robot Nano Engineer), a persistent little robot whose job it is to replace light posts on the exterior of BnL's Axiom spacecraft, which houses Earth's people while robots such as WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter-Earth-class) clean up the mess they left behind on their planet.It's an amusing story that takes place during the feature film, though Burn-E's existence is only briefly shown as a robot frustrated that WALL-E and EVE (Extraterrestial Vegetation Evaluator) have entered the portal from which he'd exited, which causes it to close (effectively locking him out of the Axiom). This same scene transpires about half way through the short.In this featurette, Burn-E is called to action when a light post needs replacing: 'he' retrieves a replacement post and 'runs' down a long track interior to the Axiom before he arrives at the aforementioned portal (which opens so that Burn-E can get to the location of the missing post); the robot then attempts to install a new post by welding it into place. However, various 'accidents' occur which cause the replacement post to 'escape' and drift into outer space, so Burn-E has to repeat the process of retrieving a new post, after which he attempts to complete the task again and again unsuccessfully.Though Burn-E's persistence is eventually rewarded, it's only temporary!

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