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WALL-E issues a stark warning about Earth’s future

Brian Krier | Tue, Jul 8th, 2008 | Category: Reviews | Tags: film review, brian krier, consumption, future planet, consumerism, disney, waste, convenience culture, wall-e, pixar, social commentary | 2

WALL-E, the latest animated feature from Pixar Studios, presents some unsettling images of Earth 700 years in the future: uninhabited cities built out of infinite fields of garbage; a planet devoid of human civilization; a landscape in which the color green has been removed from the spectrum; and one robot that rules all. It only takes a minute to realize that WALL-E is not your typical kid’s movie.

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