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Wall-E, Social Critic

petrarch1608 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:40:54 PDT

it seems ironic that Disney would disparage consumerism. I mean that big mess over by Orlando didn't just materialize out of thin air.

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shudderstep — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:44:27 PDT

Wall-E looks beautiful, and I'm really curious to see how a mostly mute main character works with a modern kiddie audience. Last time I could think of was E.T.

The message of the film will be as hammered home as most pixar (FAMILY! LOVE! FRIENDSHIP! DISCOVERY!) stuff wrapped in perfect comedic timing and gob-smacking visuals.

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eviladrian — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:43:21 PDT

I saw "The Last Mimzy" when we got it in at work, mostly to hear the new Roger Waters song, but I was kind of surprised at the product placement in it.
The whole time the writers are beating you over the head with "TV is bad, put down your video games and live a life of nature!" but then every piece of technology the family owns has huge SONY branding on it. The brand isn't even shown in a positive light: the father avoids talking to his family by watching a SONY tv, the son retreats from his parents by playing a SONY psp then cheats on his exams by texting with his SONY phone, while everyone blanks each other out with SONY mp3 players.

All the time these SONY products are depicted as turning people's brains to mush, but I just know that some black-hearted marketeer has done the sums and calculated that enough of us have already had our brains turned to mush to not get the moral of the story but still accept the SONY engram into our brandscape.

So it won't surprise me at all when kids spend two hours having Wall-E tell them to eat in moderation and only buy things they need, not just want, then run down to McDonald's and buy five supersized Wall-E Happy Meals.

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Ronestar — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:01:44 PDT

Two messages came at me from the trailer:

1) Love knows no limits, and 2) Stop being dirty slobs while assuming your kids will clean up the disaster you left behind - they will think the same damn thing when they get to be your age.

I think these are both important themes for kids and adults all around... or is that for kids and adults that are round? 0_o

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superbryant — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:16:09 PDT

Who gives a crap...honestly are they lying or over-dramitizing....I dont think so. this seems very plausible

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Jim_in_Buffalo — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:56:44 PDT

In the novelization of Red Dwarf, the human species colonizes the rest of the solar system, deciding to use Earth as the dumping ground for all of its garbage. Of course, why the human species doesn't just launch its garbage into the sun is beyond me, but whatever.

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monkeemike — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:36:25 PDT

according to the creator of Wall-E it is purely "Mr. Sparkle " coincidence .......yeah right :)

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92BuickLeSabre — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:35:46 PDT

I'm too fat and tired to argue about this.

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blackcampbell — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:22:50 PDT

Not just an "environmental" message, but a subtle-as-a-brick-to-the-head message about how awful consumerist societies make you fat.

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Tommmcatt — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:11:37 PDT

Speaking as one of the commies at Disney, I have to say that the little bit of the film I have seen looks fantastic~ from a purely artistic point of view. Though I have to say that Wall-E himself looks a lot like Johnny 5 from "Short Circut"....

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extracrispy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:54:50 PDT

I thought this post was going to be about the controversy brewing over two robots in love. I mean, clearly this is what's going to happen next if we start letting gays get married. Feeding our kids messages like this is just another part of the gay agenda from the commies at Disney.

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The_Real_Quiet_Desperation — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:50:01 PDT

Yeah, because people are so quick to be politically correct about tubby people. Oh, wait...

That's one meme that's never going to get off the ground... (get it?)

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Seth L — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:09:52 PDT

Who has the fast-food license?

Is it just me, or is it feeling like the late 70's and early 80's all over again?

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tetracycloide — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:00:12 PDT

an animated film targeting children with environmentalist messages? how ground breaking...

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