Andy Online

First of all, I want to say that I wasn’t planning on doing a review of this movie. Since the last movie I reviewed was Kung Fu Panda, I thought that reviewing two animated films in a row would make me a sissy.

Then I came across this article. What the hell?

Back to the film, I’ll get to the nut-job bs in a second. The basic premise of this movie is that in the not too distant future, we humans have trashed the planet beyond it’s ability to sustain life. So, everyone hops on a space cruise while trash compacting robots or WALL-Es clean the earth. The last remaining WALL-E inadvertently ends up on the ship and “fascist” “left wing” “propaganda” ensues. Just like most movies that Pixar creates, it was fresh, fun and very entertaining. They push the envelope with every movie they make. In this movie, you aren’t introduced to the first human character until the movie is about half over. Even then, they only credit 7 voice actors in the credits. A vast majority of the characters are robots. It’s a robot love story. Brilliant.

Ok, back to the no brain nutters who condemn this film. On a blog called “Liberal Fascism”, I kid you not, it is really called “Liberal Fascism”, this letter is posted, describing the movie’s “fascistic elements”. “You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.” I consulted my good friend Merriam Webster and he told me that fascism is a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control. The entire letter talks about how the characters fight the “system”. How the flying rat turds is that fascist? Socialist, maybe, (and that’s a stretch) but fascist? C’mon now. If any character in this film had fascist undertones it would be corporate/governmental character who gave the order specifically to prevent anyone returning to Earth. Or possibly the autopilot robot who followed this order. In any case the only possible fascistic characters were the antagonists. These cake eaters need to learn to open a dictionary.

So remember kids, when you think fascist dictators think: Benito Mussulini, Mao Zedong, Kim Jong Il, Saddam Hussein, and a little trash compacting robot named WALL-E.

Overall Score: 4 out of 5 stars.

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