BLUE MAG

Though animated films are not my favorite types of films — at least not the ones made since about 1970 — I have made notable exceptions, as millions of other humans have, for Pixar. I think “The Incredibles” was an incredible film, and “Ratatouille” was pretty exceptional as well. Oh and the “Toy Stories,” those were fine as well. And I’m sure that someday I’ll get around to seeing this year’s entry, “WALL-E.” The early breathless reviews are in and this one is sure to smash all preconceived notions of a successful opening weekend for Pixar.

I am liking what I see about this film’s use of classic sci-fi storytelling. If you haven’t heard, “WALL-E” takes place in the year 2700, when Earth is an uninhabitable trash dump and all humans are gigantic fat blobs waiting for a cute robot to clean it up. Hmm, I am required to say, really makes you think about how all humans right now are giant fat slobs filling our planet with trash, don’t you get it?

Surely we are so enlightened that we will not bat an eyelash at the thousands of disposable WALL-E pieces of plastic shit that will be filling our landfills in a few months. I mean isn’t that just another layer of meaning? A film geared poking fun at our fat disgusting landfill-ing culture that, as a Pixar product, love it as much as we all do, is part of one of the most massively wasteful enterprises in human history?

By the way, the design of “WALL-E” reminds me of 1979’s “The Black Hole,” which I had to Google not just to provide the link but also to prove to myself that it really existed. This is “B.O.B.” from “The Black Hole.” Oh and remember how scary this thing was?