YOUR FRIEND THE RAT

Audio commentary with Director Jim Capbianco and Production Designer Nate Wragg

PRESTO

Audio commentary with Director Doug Sweetland

BURN.E

Audio commentary with director Angus MacLane

PARTLY CLOUDY

Audio commentary with Director Peter Sahr

DUG’S SECRET MISSION

Audio commentary with Director Ronnie Del Carmen and Supervising Technical Director Brad Wiremiller

GEORGE & A.J.

Audio commentary with Director Josh Cooley

 

DAY & NIGHT

Audio commentary with Director Teddy Newton & Layout Artist Sandra Karpman

HAWAIIAN VACATION

Audio commentary with Director Gary Rydstrom, Story supervisor Jason Katz, Supervising Animator Angus MacLane

AIR MATER

Audio commentary with director Rob Gibbs, Producer Kim Adams, and Production Designer Bob Pauley

SMALL FRY

Audio commentary with director Angus MacLane

TIME TRAVEL MATER

Audio commentary with Director Ron Gibbs, Editor Torbin Xan Bullock, & Production Designer Anthony Christov

LA LUNA

Audio commentary with Director Erico Casarosa and Producer Kevin Rehr

 

This second collection of Pixar shorts features a variety of entertaining animated shorts with many of them being available on other DVDs and Blu-rays with the exception of a couple of shorts.  PRESTO and BURN.E are the best shorts in the collection while the CARS and TOY STORY shorts also have high entertainment value.   Some of these shorts even stand above some of the Pixar and Disney feature animated films.  Each have their own audio commentaries where the various people involved talk about various aspects of the shorts and the stories including the variety of old traditional animation methods used for YOUR FRIEND THE RAT.

 

SPECIAL FEATURES:

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LADY AND THE LAMP with Introductions by Director John Lasseter

 

SOMEWHERE IN THE ATTIC

A STORY with Introductions by director Andrew Stanton

 

WINTER

PALM SPRINGS

NEXT DOOR with Introductions by Director Pete Docter

 

The collection also features some of the student animated films from three of the more well-known creators from Pixar.  They each feature introductions, but I found most of these to be rather crude and too simple (with the one with the killer clowns being the closet where I almost found myself being entertained).  It is like they found their voice for animation when they went to work for Pixar after college.

 

FINAL ANALYSIS:    The second volume of the Pixar Short Films Collection is a must-have for fans of the animated Pixar shorts.   I do wish they give more behind-the-scenes insight on the shorts and the careers of the animators.   The audio commentaries and student animated shorts are a good start for extras.   However, if you don’t want to own the shorts in this collection all on one set, you might be content with owning the various Pixar DVDs/ Blu-rays where they appear as extras.

 

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