Wall·E

Grammy’s Rating: 1

Gimmie a Break!

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What can you say about a truly dingy movie that you know is trying to brainwash you and your grandkids with an anti-American, anti- consumption slam from the oh so politically correct, liberal, SUV crowd in Hollywood?

To be fair, you could say that it is full of very cute and entertaining lovable animated characters. That’s where the positives end, because then you must make sense of its incredibly convoluted plot. The plot seeks to insult the lazy overindulgent, whomever they are. So, if the shoe fits….squirm!

The movie opens with our hero, Wall·E, the only living trash compacting robot left on Earth. The people have all left earth for an extended vacation on a space station because they have over polluted the Earth with trash.

Wall?E’s home appears to be New York City, but one can’t really tell because the skyscrapers have all been replaced or matched with towers of trash. Wall·E spends his days compacting, stacking trash cubes, and collecting interesting artifacts like lighters, toys, and Christmas lights. Along the way he runs into two living things, a cockroach and a twig of a green plant.

One day a lovely probe, Eve, is dropped off by a mysterious space ship. When
Wall·E falls in love and gives her his green plant (he keeps the cockroach for himself) she is instantly reconnected with the Mother Ship and picked up for return to… wherever??? We don’t really know.

But Wall·E the trash compactor is broken hearted (you can’t make this stuff up!) and clings to the space ship for the whole trip through space to be with his beloved Eve, the probe. It turns out that the space ship is returning to the space station full of humans who are just celebrating the 700-year anniversary of their five-year vacation in space. (Don’t look at me that way!! I said it was convoluted. Did I fail to say it was convoluted in a tortured sort of way??)

So anyway, in a weird twist on Darwinism, we then find out that all the humans have devolved. The unfit are surviving well and all have legs and arms that look like flippers and bodies that look like big blobs of lard. But not to worry, they have robots to serve them and they live out their days in hovering wheel chairs without wheels. Their fingers still work to control computer monitors. But if the ship tilts or they get bumped, they go sliding uncontrollably. Helpless disability is the comedy shtick the movie leans on. Cute huh?

The big deal is when it becomes known that a green twig has been found! I won’t tell you the happily ever after ending, because there really isn’t one in this customer’s opinion.

So, if you want to take the kiddies, be ready to deprogram them from the brainwashing. It’s cute animation in parts. But some of it is slightly disgusting and should be offensive to some disabled in the audience, for the insinuation that the disabled bring it on themselves and are a laughable lot. Other than all that, it’s kids play. No sex, violence or profanity.