Wow, some folk really have lost all notion of just having fun at the movies haven't they? But even if that were the case, and wacko, jacko, and the rest of them crazies were even remotely close to making a point, it's not like there haven't been cartons filled with propaganda before, unless Der Fuehrer's Face doesn't count.

looks like a classic case of over deloped defensive coping mechanism/ creeping insecurity. they should have a 700th Annual Cupcake in a Cup to chill them out. Seriously. They had them at The Alamo Drafthouse. in a B&L Cup no less. yummy.

Ok. ok. ok. I get the sarcasm and the irony of the article. I appreciate it. I loved the movie, the references, the allegory, the irony, and the sense of it all.

However.....

Leave the rightwing neo-wingnut reactionaries alone. They don't have much in the way of imagination, and asking them to look beyond the limits of their myopic existence is far to much to ask. There are other parts of Disney you can shuffle them to see. Like, BOLT. That looks like just the right speed for them, and it has John Travolta and is it Mylie Cyrus?? So, instead of teasing them with big words, give them a cookie, put on some Shrek, and pat them gently on the head. It tuckers them out when they have to exert themselves.

that is all.

Save the wingnuts, kill a tree

I loved The Lorax. I have yet to see Wall-E but from everything I heard it's fantastic.

I heard that Al Queda gave Wall-E two thumbs-up.

Just makes you wonder why these people have some much time on their hands that they can bitch and moan about a childrens' movie.

I blubbered like a little girl all the way through the movie, and not because of the horrible environmental big corporation blah blah meltdown blah blah children blah blah horseshit.

Nope. What made me all weepy was one of the sweetest stories about loneliness and discovery and falling in love that I've seen in a long time.

/shrug

Brilliant article, man. I agree completely. I honestly did not even read the reviews beforehand - I just went to see it and I loved it. As soon as I saw that it had a message, however, I didn't even have to turn on my computer to know that the conservatives would be flipping shit. It's sad, really, because where they see all this "propaganda," I'm sure most kids just saw some cute robots doing funny things. I mean, if their children could seriously take that much meaning away from a cartoon, then they may want to think about the gifted program.

I dunno if this is gonna be able to undo the YEARS of mental training from Fraggle Rock that we are suppose to both respect and take advice from our garbage.

Some stupid assholes just can't wait to be pissed off or offended about something. That was the sheer genius of the South Park movie. They made it about the assholes who were going to go out and raise hell about it, and like a fucking prophecy from Nostradamus the stupid idiots went out and acted exactly as they were portrayed in the film.

Oh well. If they are too busy fretting over what happens in kids movies, maybe they'll be distracted enough that they don't actually get in the way of any REAL kind of progress in the world.

It was the cutest movie I've ever seen, and the only real comparison I ever drew between it (a cartoon) and real life (real life) was the first time we see the Buy N Large building, at which point I said, "Wal-Mart?" That was it, and then I remembered that Wal-Mart is sort of declining anyway. The rest of the movie was me going "aww" for an hour and a half.

wow how can so many people be so fuckin retarded

You're seriously not aware how?

Ive been following this as well, and I think I can explain.
The right wingers thought they could trust pixar! pixar made a movie about ayn rand (not really, it was called the incredibles. but apparently, it can mirror some randian philosophy if you use enough smoke. ugh) then they made a movie about cars!!! Now the right wingers have been betrayed!!!


The movie touches on two battles the wingers have been fighting for so long they dont know when to quit.

1. Walmart is great so shutup! : when people fight against walmart, they fight for a couple of reasons: their labor policies are awful, and that makes the surrounding businesses that arent awful dry up, because they cant compete. Also, walmart has a lot of crap you dont need.

well, this movie parodies the walmart has a lot of crap you dont need to the ridiculous extent. but the wingers are so used to fighting pro walmart in this consumer pro big business economy that they see any slight against the big w worth fighting.

2: The earth is going bad. The wingers are so used to fighting ANY ecological concern, whether it be global warming, the end of oil, melting icecaps, dying species, etc etc that they see that humans ruined this world and say OMG BAD. Because any ecological regulations will hurt SOME business. This one is more on the money, but Wall-e takes pretty great pains to point fingers at the humans as little as possible. The movie shows that the earth can be renewed , you just have to stop shopping.

am i the only person that actually watches movies to escape reality? When i enter a movie theater or put in a DVD it's main purpose is to get me to stop thinking about reality and just watch the movie for it's entertainment value.

I sat in the movie theater with my daughter watching this, and not once did i correlate anything between the movie and real life, simply because i wasn't thinking about it, it's a movie, it's main purpose in my life was to keep my attention enough to make me stop thinking about things, it's fiction at this point, that may change in 800 years, but right now, it's fiction.

And just so you know, at no point did my 8-year-old ask any questions about garbage, or Styrofoam cups. All she really wanted was the Wall-E video game for her DS, the Wall-E plushy, a Wall-E shirt and all the rest of the Wall-E merchandise.