Pixar's WALL-E offers vision of super-obese future humans

[athena]

For a film that looks like it was inspired by Short Circuit more than anything else, this was not an article I was expecting to read...

WALL-E indeed seems to be making a statement about fitness and the obesity crisis. “It shows a future in which mankind literally spends all day on a giant starship moving around in floating chairs, drinking liquified food from Big-Gulp-esque cups, and forever surfing (and chatting) on chair-mounted video screens,” says the source.

For more ... http://calorielab.com/news/2007/10/31/pixar-wavering-over-wall-es-portrayal-of-our-superobese-descendants/

[GrafSpee]

But our source felt that Pixar may be starting to worry that taking on the obesity crisis in addition to making an environmental statement may be too much for audiences to handle.


The thing that I disliked the most about "Happy Feet" was how they decided to bludgeon us with their environmental message. Is Pixar getting ready to do the same thing?

I go to animated movies because I want to be entertained. I hate having to sit through a film that is going to be laced with someone's special agenda.

I originally like what I saw/heard about Wall-E. I am beginning to think that this may be a film to see as a rental.

[Samantha]

I go to animated movies because I want to be entertained. I hate having to sit through a film that is going to be laced with someone's special agenda.
But obesity causes global warming!

[The Great Dragon]

um...are you referencing the your mom joke,

Your mom is so fat that when she has a fever, there's global warming?

cuz that's close...
just bein' random. pay 0 attention points.