Crossmarketing and all that shit is what is ruining the world.

@5 I didn't think it was so depressing, did you see the end/watch the credits? Humans realizing what we'd lost and working to revive Earth?

I look forward to the column where you laud the use of free childrens toys as cock rings and anal ticklers...

You dirtbag...

i didn't stay for all of the ending credits. however i don't think they would have made up for the majority of the movie anyways. don't get me wrong, i didn't want to hang myself afterwards, but i didn't feel a sense of enjoyment either.

Three minutes after the movie started, a family of mom, dad, 3-year old and barely walking infant came and sat right next to us. Why parents would bring an infant to a movie is beyond me, and totally rude in my opinion.

But then said immediately shat its diaper, and what does the mother do? Take the infant to the restroom? Leave it for the rest of us to smell for the next two hours? Leave with the rest of the family embarrassed for bringing an infant in the first place? None of the above. She calmly whips out a new diaper and changes the baby in the seat next to her while the movie is playing.

As we leave after the movie, I notice the dirty diaper has been left under the seat they were sitting in.

Humans really do not deserve this planet and if there is a God, he really is long overdue in wiping this plague off the surface of the planet.

I'm no prude, but please reconsider marketing your stoner movie to kids next time, Team Apatow.

*Shrugs* Maybe it's a big city thing.

PS: You could always burn it, if it infuriates you so.

In any case, this movie seemed aware of the fact that it was an environmentalist film where the cause of the problem is a culture that it is apart of. They spend a lot of time justifying that though. What other movie looks for lessons about humanity from a shitty old musical like Hello Dolly. You get my drift?

And then she left to deal with an irate adult customer who was throwing an absolute fit because she couldn't get a free watch, too.

When we saw her head for the mail floor, still pissing vinegar over her denied free piece of crap, we headed for the balcony.

The United States' biggest export to China is.... TRASH!

I thought we were paying THEM to take it - but NO. They BUY it - and then re-cycle it. (Do NOT know - but I got the impression they buy what we put in those recycle bins every week.)

China may be part of the problem, but it looks as if they're working to be part of the solution as well.

Weird...

Why the fuck can't the US do that??

G&M: This film has a big ecological message -

Andrew Stanton: Actually, no.

G&M: No? The world of the future is overflowing with garbage.

Stanton: Yeah, well I did that for other reasons. I just went with logic. I had no eco thing to push. I had to have everybody leave Earth, because I wanted the last robot on Earth. And then I needed something very visual, that made him feel like he was the lowest on the totem pole, that wouldn't require any dialogue to understand it. Trash is very get-able. One, you don't have to explain it - people see too much of it and they get it. And then second, it has all those human artifacts in it, so it allowed him to show through actions that he's interested in humanity.

G&M: Inevitably, someone will point out that -

Stanton: Sure, that's fine! But I'm not going to stand there and go, "That's what I was trying to do."

G&M: But you're depicting a future world cluttered with junk, and meanwhile there will be tons of WALL-E-generated toys, lunch boxes, T-shirts and candy wrappers.

Stanton: Possibly. Possibly. [An awkward, fixed-look pause passes]. I was just trying to make the best film I could.

G&M: Um, okay.

And he was only half-joking.

It thought it gave a great wake up call to adults and children. I walked away with this message: the Earth needs humans as much as humans need Earth.

Wall E has lived among the good and bad of consumerism while picking up compassion and love thru a movie. He makes art where there is none. He turns trash into treasure. He impacts the braindead humans, he falls in love and convinces another robot to fall in love with him.

We all needed this reminder, including kids about being "programmed" into buying happiness thru useless things.

yes, the movie had some problems but overall it was a wonderful movie.

I know.

Sitting in a theater with a bunch of people eating, drinking, and hanging on to their new Wall*E watches. . . OMG. It was hilariously, painfully ironic.

FTW.

Personally, I didn't like the movies - too little of the funny stuff. Did very little laughing. Nemo, Monster Inc, Ice Age are MUCH better. I laughed a lot more at the short before the feature.

I think it's a very practical issue. There's no need to see a political or ecological message in them. It's a household problem: no one is collecting the garbage on the sidewalk in front of our collective house.