WALL-E (U)

When I was a kid, we watched Merry Melodies (Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fud, Roadrunner, etc.), Popeye, Betty Boop, Woody Woodpecker, Bullwinkle, etc. This stuff was fun, total anarchy. We used to squeal with joy, laugh our heads off, bounce up and down. The kids watching this ideologically driven hi-tech heavily invested product were sitting there like mummies. Ideology is no fun. It's like going to church, not the playground. Enough with all this self-righteous green is good, capitalism is evil, and gender politics. Leave the kids alone!

Great movie , 5 Stars, very entertaining, over before you know it, all ages will love Wall-e! Dose have, get off your but an exercise undertones, and think green, but it makes you think! Go and escape be entertained and enjoy!

In response to Borrisbatanov: Whoa! That's some paranoia on display in your comments! It doesn't sound like you've actually seen the film so obviously the very idea of it has been enough to threaten you! But seriously, even if the film is guilty of the political indoctrination that you ascribe to it, surely the success and maturity of any culture can be gauged by the variety of political opinions that exist within it? This being so, you should really celebrate a film like Wall-E that does not conform to the other 99% of Hollywood product, particularly children's films which unequivocally put across the idea that everyone can have as much of everything as they want with no limits or consequences. The laws of thermodynamics dictate otherwise, I'm afraid, and much of the world is living in abject poverty so that those in the West can continue to live excessively and greedily. If Wall-E dares to point out this greed, really you should be applauding it. Or you can just pretend that everything's OK and go and see virtually any other movie, I'm sure none will offend you to this extent!

This isn’t meant as a review, but a commentary on the values and politics implicit in this film. Communist Party control of the Soviet Union ruthlessly imposed a uniform propaganda on all public communication, on the press, the arts, literature, on everything spoken, whispered, broadcast, painted, filmed, performed, or published. It would seem that we have come to a similar pervasive uniform mind control in the US, imposed not by an external totalitarian dictatorship, but internally, by ourselves, by a media elite and academe just as ruthless and pervasive, a steel fist in a velvet glove holding candy. Pixar is in Emeryville, CA, at the foot of the Bay Bridge, just east of San Francisco. Emeryville, recently a run-down post-industrial collection of abandoned factories and warehouses, a town without a sufficient tax base to pay for even basic services or schools, has been slowly, steadily rejuvenated and gentrified, starting in the late 1980’s. Being a mere stone’s throw from Berkeley, its geography unequivocally identifies and circumscribes its politics and culture. This isn’t the San Joaquin Valley. Three rigid politically correct assumptions pervade and define “WALL-E�: 1. The movie is “green.� Earth, a toxic wasteland where nothing lives, has been laid to waste by corporate greed and profligate consumerism, literally buried in garbage. 2. Capitalism is evil. Evil is business which caters to our every pleasure and our inability to say “No.� Humans, the earth, even the President are totally at the mercy of the evil monolithic corporation. 3. The male is clumsy, disheveled, and emasculated, the butt of the joke. The female is slim, perfect, smart, and powerful. Role reversal is now complete. “Girls rule.� I can see these biases for what they are, merely the mental flab, the glib fads, of the times. But what about the 4- and 5-year old munchkins in the audience all around us? Aren’t they being insidiously indoctrinated by the Church of Political Correctness? Aren’t they being force fed the same palaver at school and on TV?