wall-e is a very deep film, they should make a sequel

It’s probably the most in-your-face example of the divide between artist’s intent and audience interpretation I can remember seeing in a film. When I watched Wall-E, I thought the same things you and everyone else did about the core “message,” but I’m glad to know that wasn’t the main focus of the film.

That said, Stanton definitely should have known better.

I guess it’s just hard for me to believe that these details happened accidentally. The garbage crunching job, perhaps, but not the rise of obesity, the global conquest of the corporation, humanity’s over-reliance on machines and the corporate brainwashing of children by BnL representatives replacing school. The guys at Pixar are too smart and too savvy to have just thought it would be cute and funny.

That said, I agree with you, and I’m looking forward to watching WALL-E again on DVD. My guess is that the love story will be easier to focus on during subsequent viewings.

Likewise, the trash-heap of earth was a decision reverse-engineered to give Wall-E more of a meaningless existence, as well as one that would allow him to find traces of a world full of life.

Most of the blame for confusion lies on Stanton, unfortunately, for failing to realize how much baggage audiences would bring to a film that shows an earth overrun by garbage and a humanity too apparently obese to do anything but ride around in floating scooters and take all their meals through a straw.

If you strip away the audience-infused political and social commentary, Wall-E becomes that much more impressive of a film. It’s a beautiful love story, and a compelling fable about reconnecting with the world (and people) around us.