Just an FYI, but this whole post will contain WALL*E spoilers, if you’re concerned about such things.

I’m not a big animation nut, but after being disappointed by Wanted and Hancock, I tried to see something bulletproof, so I went to a late night showing of WALL*E (to lessen the amount of kids in attendance).

Wall*E is a robot that is cleaning up the Earth after humans evacuated 700 years earlier, with the hope they would eventually recolonize after the clean-up. But it’s been going for a while now…

Since this isn’t a movie review site, suffice it to say, the robot gets himself transported onto one of the spaceships that held evacuees 700 years earlier, and now houses their descendants. They basically fly around in hover chairs, eat everything in a cup (including cupcakes), and every generation aboard the ship has gotten increasingly fatter and atrophied from doing nothing, since they have robots to do everything for them.

While I did have problems with the movie from a story perspective, it was interesting to
see Pixar be so brazen about a movie where we ruined the earth and became a race of lifeless, connected slugs beholden to a big box store that provides everything we need.

Fact, fiction, or foreshadowing?

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