SnoopyStyle It's 2805 A.D. Humanity had launched itself into space on the spaceship Axiom leaving behind a mess on Earth to be cleaned up by robots before the people return. A small meteorite hits a lighting spire outside of the ship. BURN-E is a repair robot and sent to replace the spire. However, things keep going wrong. Not the least of which, WALL-E's pursuit of EVE is interfering and the ship lands back on Earth. Nevertheless, BURN-E is programmed to repair the damage no matter what. This is a nice companion piece to WALL-E but not much more than that as a stand-alone. It interacts with the story tangentially. The comedy is light fun. It's nice to see but only after watching WALL-E.

Charles Herold (cherold) 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.

MartinHafer BURN-E is a short extra film that was packaged with the DVD of WALL-E. The film takes place during the climactic chase scene in WALL-E but instead of featuring Eve and WALL-E, a new robot (BURN-E) is the star.BURN-E is a maintenance robot whose job involves replacing lights on the exterior of the ship. When one is broken, BURN-E hops into action but again and again he loses the lights and must go back and get more. Then, once his job is complete, he's locked out of the ship and must try to find some way back to his little niche in the ship.This is a good film to watch with WALL-E as it gives an alternate view of what's happening during the full-length film (sort of like the JACK-JACK ATTACK short that was included with THE INCREDIBLES). However, don't expect magic--it's only a decent short and it won't change your life if you miss it. Speaking of magic, the short PRESTO is also included on the DVD and is a vastly superior and much funnier short.

bob the moo When an external light by a docking bay is reported as faulty, a Basic Utility Robot Nano Engineer (BURN-E) unit is dispatched to resolved the issues. It is a simple task that the robot is programmed for and is essentially the reason it exists, so it is a very straightforward job. However, with the arrival of Wall•E on the ship, a simple job immediately gets a lot more difficult than it should be.I saw this little film on the DVD of Wall•E, which I'm sure was the Christmas present of many kids this year and I'm equally sure that many adults were happy to buy it as the film is easily good enough for them to watch as well. The customary short film on Pixar releases generally picks up a side character from the main film and does a new story with them as the focus. In this case that is sort of true because the short actually looks back at the final third of the main film and essentially retells that but does it quickly and by focusing on a very minor character. That character is a robot we see being locked out by Wall•E and EVE after their dance in space. This device is clever to a degree but it didn't totally work for me as I did feel like it was giving me too much of the film again – but this was a problem that only came after I had thought about the film again because, during watching, it isn't an issue.The reason for this is twofold. Firstly, Wall•E is such a great film that I didn't really mind seeing clips from it again as part of this, but this is not the main reason it works. The main reason is the high quality of the new material. The joke is simple (robot is continually frustrated in his attempts to fix light) but it is played out very well by not just having simple pratfalls or physical humour. As with the main film, we are easily drawn to this little robot and the main "directing" computer that assigns him his task because of how well they have given them human characteristics. We see frustration, embarrassment and impatience (love the change in the action of handing Burn•E a new light pole) and they all make us recognise this character. As we are drawn to like him, we laugh more when the jokes come because we have been charmed into loving the film. Of course it helps that it is funny and indeed it is very funny right down to the punch line.A slightly different short from Pixar then, but not a lesser one by any means. It is charmingly delivered with the high standards of the main film and delivers several good laughs even though it is essentially one joke repeated. A welcome find on the DVD.