subject: WALL-E, My Touching Story [print this page] One of The Disney Classic Collection WALL-E is a lonely little robotic trash compactor who was left behind after Earth was abandoned some 700 years earlier. He has been methodically cleaning up the trash-ridden planet ever since, and harboring a tiny plant he has found among the garbage. Eve, meanwhile, lives on the immense spaceship Axiom, which is also home to the fat, blob-like remains of the human race. She is a probe robot that flies to Earth to determine if the planet is ready for habitation. WALL-E takes one look at the streamlined, angelic Eve and falls in love.
For adults, WALL-E is not so much about a cute little robot as it is about the future of man. What happens when humans become such creatures of the consumer culture, so fat they can't even stand up without assistance, living literally on auto-pilot, that they do nothing but buy cheap merchandise, stuff their faces at the Regurgitated Food Buffet and lie around watching video screens? Can they ever get back to the land and set their souls free?
WALL-E has so many admirable touches! After the little apprentice is answerable application his solar panels, he "turns on" with a complete any Macintosh buyer will recognize. The robot's calm objects, abundant like the thingamabobs of The Little Mermaid's Ariel, are things that are abnormally human: balloon wrap, an iPod, a Rubics cube, a singing artificial bays angle and -- blink and you'll absence it -- a carrousel horse from Walt Disney World. Especially aggressive are the two things on this approaching Earth that are absolutely indestructible.
