The adventures of BURN-E, a robot on the same ship as WALL-E and EVE. BURN-E's main job is fixing damaged machinery. He pretty much spends his entire day welding (hence his name). His daily routine is severely disrupted due to WALL-E and EVE's romance, as this causes all sorts of mishaps with the spaceship. Not only are his work and routine disrupted but one such mishap results in him being locked out of the spaceship. From there all manner of adventures ensue.Cute, sweet short, made in conjunction with the movie WALL-E (2008). A nice little add-on to that great movie. An interesting plot with a great punch-line at the end.

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.

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.

Having absolutely loved WALL-E, I was all for seeing the short film that came with it. Burn-E is just as good as the movie it featured with, and while not quite in the same league as Geri's Game, Knick Knack, Jack-Jack Attack, Presto and One Man Band, it is one of Pixar's better short films to me. The animation with beautiful colours and atmospheric backgrounds is amazing, the music is haunting and understated and the story has an enchanting atmosphere to it. Burn-E may be a one-joke short, but seeing as the joke itself is funny, it works brilliantly. Burn-E, like WALL-E, is not just endearing but there is a very human side to him which makes us identify with him all the more. In conclusion, beautifully animated and enchanting, this is a great short film and perhaps one of the better one-joke animations I've seen. 9/10 Bethany Cox