Last night I saw the summer blockbuster WALL-E. I gave this movie a B+. Unfortunately, I saw this movie with some high expectations, which probably did more damage than help.

WALL-E was cute, entertaining, and cool to watch all of the Pixar animation. I have two comments that summarize my reflections on WALL-E.

First, WALL-E a robot has emotions. WALL-E actually really likes a female robot, EVE. I could not believe Disney convinced me that robots have the desire to be loved just like humans. I was hyper critical how Disney was going to engage me with a romantic comedy between two robots. Well they did. WALL-E and EVE moved me. They had feelings for each other. They were willing to do anything for each other. They were in love and both had this deep longing to be wanted and desired. Who what of thought the universal true of seeking love even happens in the robot world? Seriously there is nothing about WALL-E that you will not like.

Second, Disney illustrated that Americans are lazy.  This was demonstrated by showing the multiple fat people on the space ship Axiom. I am not sure if this was Disney’s intentions but I saw this idea throughout the movie: that American people are absorbed with consumerisms, laziness, over weight, and highly “corporatized”. Buy ‘n Large (a high powered company that attempts to make everybody’s life easier) governs and manages everything on earth and on Axiom. Unfortunately, Buy ‘n Large has great intentions, but they are actually robbing humanity than making it easier. The over weight people on Axiom space ship are lazy because everything has been handed to them. It was rather disturbing watching these fat humans interact with each other.  The robots were the ones doing all the work.

Needless to say, go see this movie. It is fun! I even blogged about it, which means a lot. Take the day off. Take the kids. Take the wife. Take the cats and go see WALL-E.