Saturday, June 28, 2008
I didn't expect this to be such a scathing criticism of American culture and politics. I mean that as a compliment. It's kind of ballsy for a kids' movie. America is satirized as basically becoming one giant Wal-Mart, and Fred Willard shows up as, essentially, a Bush surrogate. They even have him say "stay the course."
Of course, kids won't get any of this, I'm sure it's more aimed at the parents. But damn. Good job.
2 comments:
The satire was a nice touch, I especially liked the "they live" directness of the billboards on the spaceship.
I also thought it went for the sad and unexpected more often then most modern kids/animated movies.
Its rare that any movie makes a world detailed enough that you can imagine that there is much more to it then what you are seeing much less two. When my only real complaint is that I wish I could have seen more of Wall-E alone in the deserted earth I think it means they did a good job.
i agree- i loved how like the first half of the movie basically had no dialogue, beyond the words "wall-e" and "eve".
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