No discussion of Pixar would be complete without a link to Noah Millman's contrarian take on the company's latest hit. (I wondered about EVE's trigger-happiness too ...)
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The Case Against Wall:E
07 Jul 2008 04:19 pm
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They don't know what kind of plants might've evolved, Ross: they could be big, horrible plants like walking sundews with big giant fangs or something.
Wall-E totally looks like the robot from "Short Circuit"... minus the cheesy 80's style of course

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My problem with Millman's take is that the story is deliberately a fantasy and a fable... I never thought of it as scifi, so I didn't worry about the technological and other issues he complains about.
Posted by Ezekiel | July 7, 2008 5:10 PM