WALL-E

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'''''WALL-E''''' (styled as '''''WALL•E''''') is a 2008 [[United States|American]] 
prophetic
 post-[[apocalyptic]] animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by [[The Walt Disney Company|Walt Disney Pictures]].  Featuring a tiny [[free will|free-will]]ed '''W'''aste '''A'''llocation '''L'''oad '''L'''ifter – '''E'''arth Class<ref group=note>It's supposed to sound like "Wally", Geddit? Geddit?</ref> tasked with cleaning an [[Earth]] ravaged by [[pollution]], he falls in love with another robot and travels into space to ensure her survival.  The movie was near-universally acclaimed,<ref>[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wall_e/ Rotten Tomatoes]</ref> with the anthropomorphic romance compared to the silent films of yesteryear, and won everything including the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/awards All those awards...]</ref>

There were a handful of critics, however.

==The wingnut reaction==
[[File:Wall-esad.jpg|thumb|left|100px|Thanks for making WALL-E cry, assholes.]]
Never ones to miss an opportunity to look like laughingstocks, [[Republican Party|American conservatives]] immediately went on a witchhunt over ''WALL-E'''s "political" message.<ref group=note>Learning to throw the trash in the right place, not get morbidly [[obesity|obese]] from [[McDonald's]] and addicted to the [[Internet]] is too much, apparently.</ref>  

[[Fun:Whambulance|Angered]] by the portrayal of a [[consumerism|consumer]] society gone wrong, sites from the ''[[National Review Online|National Review]]'' to [[Erick Erickson|RedState]], to such luminaries as [[Glenn Beck]] and [[Jonah Goldberg]], decried the film as having a "[[red-baiting|Marxist]], [[Secular religions#Environmentalism as a religion|Eco-Theological world view]]," "[[Godwin's Law|fascistic elements]]," "[[Bush Derangement Syndrome]]," "[[Cornucopian vs. Malthusian debate|Malthusian fear-mongering]]," "[[Hollywood values|leftist propaganda]]" and that "[[Godwin's Law|Goebbels [has] reached all the way to California]]."<ref>[http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Bright-Green/2008/0702/conservative-critics-blast-wall-e Conservative critics blast Wall•E], ''Christian Science Monitor''</ref>  Boycotts were called.

Noticing the potential [[Streisand effect]] developing, other right-leaning commentators declared their support for ''WALL-E'' and its commitment to [[family values]].<ref>[http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/another-brick-in-the-wall-e/ Another Brick in the ‘WALL-E’], ''The New York Times'' in bad pun mode</ref> Prepare your [[irony meter]]s: one look at the [[Wikipedia]] pages of the production staff imply devout [[Christianity]] (at least one actor was a Republican supporter), and traces of [[Biblical]] influence are rampant.<ref>{{wpl|Wall_e#Themes|WALL-E Themes}}</ref>  There was a ''reason'' his love interest was named [[Eve|EVE]], for [[God]]'s sake.
It is also worth noting that the conspiracy crowd went full-metal apeshit on theories over "the technocracy", humans are being dumbed down by machines, and similar 
fear mongering stories
 [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracies]]. <sup>''[What's the Difference?]''</sup>

==Scientific reaction==
[[Scientific]] criticism was particularly focused on [[physics]] issues ([[sci-fi]] movie, duh),<ref>[http://www.nsta.org/publications/news/story.aspx?id=55602 "Classic] [http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/wall-e-gravity-and-air/ blunders"]</ref> but identified examples where ''WALL-E'''s [[dystopia]] is already more [[reality]] than the [[fringe]] want it to be.<ref>[http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2012/05/17/approaching-wall-e-with-hondas-uni-cub-personal-mobility-device/ Approaching “Wall-E” with Honda’s Uni-Cub personal mobility device], ''Scientific American''</ref><ref>[http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/tag/wall-e/ WALL-E at ''Discover Magazine'']</ref>

==External links==
*[http://www.cracked.com/blog/wall-e-really-about-an-aging-gay-robot/ Is Wall-E Really About An Aging Gay Robot?], [[Cracked]]
*[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/ ''WALL-E'' on IMDb]
*[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/WallE ''WALL-E''] on [[TV Tropes]]

==Notes==
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