Another late post here.
We took my boys to see this, 9 yrs. w/ ADHD and 6 with Autism. They, we all, loved it! My boys so much so that they now have Wall-E bed sheets, my older DS chose a Wall-E pillow and my younger picked the Eve and Wall-E beanies (to go with the hundred or so Mickey's he's managed to acquire). The have Wall-E t-shirts and even begged for the Wall-E toothpaste and my older son spent his own allowance to buy the Wall-E toothbrush, for pities sake! They're NUTS about Wall-E!
As to the OPs message. The weren't fat and lazy as so many others have really said. It was more of a commentary/warning about humans becoming way to dependant on technology. Why walk when there's these chairs, why talk when you have instant messaging, why do anything for yourself when there's all these 'bots to do the work? That's what they're there for. As we saw the Cpt. knew there was more out there to do and he eventually did it.
I guess I'm flogging a well-flogged subject now tho'.
Plus, Cheshire Figment mentioned the effects of a zero-g environment, even tho' the station had artificial gravity it isn't the same as Earth's gravity. It takes a lot of work to maintain fitness in any circumstance and long term exposure to a space-station/ship lifestyle would cause bone-density to decrease. The director of the movie in an interview even said that his future people in Wall-E weren't technically fat. They were infantile. Not only did their muscles and bones deteriate over the centuries but since so much was done for them their bodies eventually realized they didn't need to develop much past the infant phase. Don't think of them as fat but as a bunch of big babies.
We took my boys to see this, 9 yrs. w/ ADHD and 6 with Autism. They, we all, loved it! My boys so much so that they now have Wall-E bed sheets, my older DS chose a Wall-E pillow and my younger picked the Eve and Wall-E beanies (to go with the hundred or so Mickey's he's managed to acquire). The have Wall-E t-shirts and even begged for the Wall-E toothpaste and my older son spent his own allowance to buy the Wall-E toothbrush, for pities sake! They're NUTS about Wall-E!
As to the OPs message. The weren't fat and lazy as so many others have really said. It was more of a commentary/warning about humans becoming way to dependant on technology. Why walk when there's these chairs, why talk when you have instant messaging, why do anything for yourself when there's all these 'bots to do the work? That's what they're there for. As we saw the Cpt. knew there was more out there to do and he eventually did it.
I guess I'm flogging a well-flogged subject now tho'.
Plus, Cheshire Figment mentioned the effects of a zero-g environment, even tho' the station had artificial gravity it isn't the same as Earth's gravity. It takes a lot of work to maintain fitness in any circumstance and long term exposure to a space-station/ship lifestyle would cause bone-density to decrease. The director of the movie in an interview even said that his future people in Wall-E weren't technically fat. They were infantile. Not only did their muscles and bones deteriate over the centuries but since so much was done for them their bodies eventually realized they didn't need to develop much past the infant phase. Don't think of them as fat but as a bunch of big babies.
