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the most pointed being "conspicuous consumption will be the downfall of the earth."
SPOILER ALERT*** scroll down for more, but do not read if you don't want to know the plot.
At the beginning of the movie, you see the little robot rolling through huge mounds of garbage, with every sign in the city saying "BnL" for a big corporation called Buy and Large. I took this to mean that eventually all business will be run by one gigantic corporation - at first I thought Walmart but this was bigger than Walmart. Second major point was that after humans destroy the earth and go to live on a spaceship, there's an ad touting how much fun the ship is, saying, "you don't *have* to walk!!" All the people ride around in floating lounge chairs and never have to take a step. Robots wait on them hand and foot and everything is automated. By the time of teh movie (700 years later) all teh humans are HUGELY FAT. I was kinda surprised and pleased they would do this in the movie - maybe that little zinger will hit home to the millions of Americans who do as little as they possibly can, even driving for 20 minutes trying to find a parking space up close to the mall entrance rather than parking at the end of the parking lot and walking 500 feet. By the end of teh movie, humans redeem themselves, return to earth, recolonize it and clean it up, and lose all the excess weight (all this we get from the closing credits, the movie actually ends with humans' return to earth.) The message was pretty clear, though, and it's a message Americans DIRELY NEED to hear!
Other than that, it was cute, although it dragged a little in some places. I didn't like it nearly as much as Finding Nemo or Monsters. |
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So I saw WallE last night, pretty heavy-handed with a couple of messages New 
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