Underplayed Gems

BURN-E (2008)

BURN-E poster
Original title
BURN·E
Directed by
Angus MacLane
Genre
comedy film, adventure film, science fiction film
Country
United States
Runtime
8 min
Rated
G
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 809 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A repair robot on a starship keeps getting interrupted by bigger events while trying to finish a simple job. His work is repeatedly undone by the actions of characters from the movie WALL-E.

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What happens

BURN-E (stylized with an interpunct as BURN·E) is a 2008 American animated short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It is tied into and included with the DVD and Blu-ray of WALL-E. The titular repair robot is a minor character from the film, who spends the short trying to repair a small part of the starship Axiom, only to be continuously thwarted by concurrent events seen in intercut scenes from WALL-E. WALL-E's director Andrew Stanton co-wrote and executive produced the short. BURN-E was produced at the same time as WALL-E and directed by the feature film's lead animator, Angus MacLane. It features music composed and conducted by J. A. C. Redford, who was also an orchestrator on WALL-E. The BURN-E robot appears briefly in WALL-E during the scene in which WALL-E and EVE dance in space. When they re-enter the Axiom, they accidentally lock him out, and he is last seen banging his fists against the door. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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