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DVD Features
- DVD Release Date: November 6, 2007
- Original Theatrical Release: Various
- Anamorphic Widescreen and Full Screen
- Dolby Digital 2.0 and 5.1 Surround Sound
- French and Spanish Language Tracks
- Subtitles: Closed Captioned
- Suggested Retail Price: $29.99
Goodies
- Four Luxo Jr. Sesame Street Shorts
- “Pixar Shorts: A Short History” Featurette (23 min)
- Audio Commentaries on most shorts
- Easter Eggs
The Shorts
I don’t think anyone reading this review is unfamiliar with Pixar’s string of fabulous animated short films. They started pretty much as John Lasseter’s demonstration reels for what the Pixar computer hardware and software could do, but after Toy Story, they became the testing and learning ground for budding directors, animators, and story folks. While the computer technology that enabled all these shorts has changed dramatically over the years, there is one constant, which has been Lasseter’s mantra from the beginning, and that is the story. These shorts all tell great little stories. Several do not even have dialogue. They all draw you in, though, whether you are young or old, and there is not one of these that either my boys or I could not watch over and over. This set of 13 shorts are simply wonderful: