Movie Review

Here is an interesting review of the movie WALL-E:

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/wall-e-a-gloom-e-satire/

After reading this I don't think the boys and I will be venturing out any time soon to see this movie. Somehow, none of this sounds appealing to me:

"The earth has been made uninhabitable by junk and pollution."

"The earthlings — or maybe Americans, as none of them have any other kind of accent — are brain-dead blobs perpetually stuffed to the gills with entertainment. They never leave their spotless flying barcaloungers — and never could, since their bones have shrunk to useless twigs inside their Shrek-like masses. They float through their troglodyte lives as unquestioning subjects of the master corporation (the same one that ruined the Earth) that houses them, distracts them and feeds them. All foods are made to be sucked down like milkshakes for maximum convenience."

"A variety of evil machines try to steal from them a small plant from Earth that they brought with them as evidence that the planet is inhabitable again. That poses a threat to the corporation that is generating so much profit from its captive audience on the space station."

I don't think my kids need these images fed to them. I also think I can manage to communicate to them the importance of being good stewards of the Earth without subjecting them to Disney's version of Blade Runner.