As the father of an 11 year old boy and 4 year old girl, I have seen, and seen, and seen, and seen again, and seen YET AGAIN, most Disney, and (except for WALL-E and Ratatouille) every Pixar movie ever made. Thanks to the magic of DVD technology I have (albeit involuntarily ) memorized entire script of Cinderella, as well as the first half of The Little Mermaid (up to the scary part when Ursula comes in). I had the unfortunate luck to wind up paying money to see both Yu-Gi-Oh the Movie, and The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D, and I know far more about the various and sundry Disney Princess than is psychologically healthy for a straight man in his early 40s. I know my kids movies.
So, without having seen Wall-E (YET…emphasis on YET) I have to say I am with ts, and Navytech here.
Disney has a long track record of incredible family movies. Together with Walden they have done a truly magnificent job on the first two of the Narnia movies; and PIXAR has an unbroken record of making fun, quality, family flicks. I really pity anyone who is such a self important psuedo intellectual that they feel the need to A) look for political bias and hidden agendas in a children’s movie, (what’s next…the hidden Royalist agenda in Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty?) and B) feel that finding darkness despair and evidence of “Mankind’s exististential sorrow over the death of God etc.” in everything somehow makes them sound deep.
Folks, for goodness sake, get over yourselves and enjoy the popcorn.
