WALL-E

We saw Wall-E yesterday. It's the latest Pixar creation. I was less than impressed. They lived up to their standards in computer animation, but that's where it ended. The story line was one of the worst I've seen, and it smacked blatantly of Al Gore, the evil "big business", and socialism.

Wall-E is a robot programmed to clean up the Earth after us humans trashed it to the point of forcing ourselves off of the planet. When a more modern robot probe comes to Earth and finds one living plant, it takes possession of it and returns it to the "mother ship" - coincidentally, the one all of us self-banished humans are living on. This is to be a signal that it's safe to return to Earth, evidence that it is once again able to sustain life. Of course, the evil corporate giant doesn't want them to return to Earth to have a life again. Every one of the mother ship's occupants are obese and are only able to move around on levitating chairs, those occupants presumably the only Earthlings remaining. The chairs resemble gaming chairs with monitors, and they follow specific paths throughout the ship. Robots are everywhere to wait on them hand and foot. This is a result of the sole corporate giant creating a life of "do-nothing" for everybody. Everything in existence has the company's logo on it.

So, you have what would have been a real cute love story between two robots - had they concentrated on that story line. They didn't. The major story was that us humans destroyed our own habitat with trash, and became slaves to the only surviving corporate giant of the time. Whether you see this as Wal-Mart monopolizing the Earth or socialism at its worst, it still lays waste to a potentially excellent movie. Unfortunately, the green fanatics also took over this digital production.

I am not against taking care of our Earth by any means. It's a no-brainer that we should. Those like Al Gore take common sense to an extreme. Wall-E would have done much better to avoid that topic altogether.


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