Filed in archive Satires on July 23, 2010

Wall-E: A Family Satire Film

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Wall-E is a family film created in complete computer generated animation that features the most adorable robot the world will ever know. Wall-E spends his days all alone in a world literally flooded with garbage left behind by the ever consuming human race. He's a garbage robot who compacts the trash and stacks it up in massive sky scraper sized towers. He's organizing all this garbage to make room for humanity's return to Earth.

See, the people in Wall-E all live aboard a massive space ship where they are waited on hand and foot without a single responsibility to concern them. They are all incredibly obese - to the point of immobility - and ride around in large, luxurious hover chairs. This is a direct mockery of America's habit of constantly consuming with complete disregard for the future outcome and consequences of our actions. Can this be how it really turns out?

The movie ends on a high note, however, because when it finally comes down to relaxing or saving the world the people struggle to their feet to fight for their home.