Posted by
Catmman on Friday, June 27, 2008 9:54:05 PM
ANOTHER Hollywood eco-wacko, "mankind is evil and destroyed his planet/environment" movie.
And a movie targeted directly towards our nations children's already eco-brainwashed, microscopic little minds.
(PS - It's apparently anti-business too, the evil "Buy-N-Large" corporation seems to be exploiting little WALL-E. Well, I'm sure they're exploiting SOMETHING! D'uh!)
When we first meet WALL-E, he's roaming around in what appears to be a familiar landscape - with a few eerie differences. Instead of people filling city streets, there is trash - mountains and mountains of consumer garbage.
Assigned to compact the ambient litter into tidy little cubes, and then stack them into skyscraping pyramids, one little Waste Allocation Load Lifter (Earth Class) has managed to continue functioning on an abandoned planet.
Not even the other WALL-Es have managed to survive the frequent dust storms and thunder showers, but over the past 700 years, one little task-oriented chunk of wires and programming has been able to adapt to the hostile climate, and to scavenge spare parts to stay alive.
As we follow WALL-E around the deserted streets laden with advertising for the all-powerful Buy-N-Large corporation, we're given a brief explanation of what happened.
Earthlings created too much stuff. We literally trashed the planet and killed off the environment that sustains us. The Buy-N-Large corporation offers what it believes to be the ideal solution: escape to space in large ships until the robots clean up the mess back home.
Seven hundred years later, the planet is still vacant of human life.
That's all you really need to read isn't it?
Yes it may be cute and cool since it's PIXAR (digital animation IS cool), but seriously. It seems we can't escape Hollywood's continuing penchant for enviro-exploitation, no matter the vehicle.
PLOT CONFIRMATION: Here's
another review I found after a bit of searching.
WALL-E atop a mountain of mankinds HopenChange...
Yep. Humans have polluted Mother Earth. An "inept" (aren't they all? pffft!) corporation was hired to come in and clean things up and fails miserably (I'm sure there is the usual "they did it for continued profits", or some such typical nonsense meme.)
Additionally, humans left Earth and are living in a giant spaceship-type thing waiting for the 'bots to clean things up. It seems humans had the brains and technology to create a giant spaceship-type thing which accomodates all life on Earth (over a period of several centuries BTW), but can't figure out how to recycle it's own trash?
Anyway, John McCain is sure to be happy with this movie. WALL-E is powered by "alternative energy" (solar power.) Perhaps someone DID find a use for that $300M lotto of McCains after all?
I'm skeptical. Surely the Hollyweird left-tards could have found a way for WALL-E to run on the everpresent HopenChange?
They're probably saving that for the sequel.
BTW, I do get it that this is a kids picture, but so was "March of the Penguins". I also understand that PIXAR has put out some fine products in the past ("The Incredibles" is one of my favorites!) AND I do enjoy the technological aspect of films like this (the digital animation, etc.) However, I'm sick and tired that Hollywood can't put together a movie nowadays without filling it full of leftist sophistry targeted specifically towards kids.
UPDATE II: I've been reading other reviews of this movie around the web today. I found
another editorial/review about the movie itself which asks the question: Isn't Disney/Pixar being, even in the slightest, a bit hypocritical? A movie tailored to kids containing rampant anti-consumer imagery/messaging; yet these companies make a substantial part of their money selling the kind of crap WALL-E is busy destroying in our future world? Summed up thusly:
The truth is that Wall-E feels like a really well-made stop smoking ad starring Joe Camel.