After the movie everyone thought at least once about the obese people in their chairs. I certainly thought "Wow it sucks to be overweight" and that it's amazing that the person enabled himself to stand despite his being overweight. See this statement? He overcame his horrendous disease, which is being overweight.

Forget whether about obesity is a societal rather than medically based agenda, people just think it's bad regardless. Medical science just backs up how "right" they are to begin with, even though diabetes is caused by lack of exercise and being sedentary is a greater health risk than simply being overweight alone.

If I might be so bold, I think organizations such as NAAFA are trying to say Fat shouldn't be made to be a debilitating disease or something to be shunned or blamed on lack of control or ignorance, as this movie implies, but simply accepted. Some people are fat some people are thin. We shouldn't all reach for some weight ideal backed by science that doesn't even address the true cause of death, which is lack of exercise and poor diets. Also if they didn't associate bone degeneration with being overweight I think that's better. but of course some would argue that's NOT realistic…. Well if we're talking about realism, wouldn't it make more sense for people to have greater bone density to support the weight that would otherwise be CRUSHING their organs? But I digress.

In the case of WALL-E, I fully anticipated this even as I was walking out of the theater. In fact, I almost regret that my whole review ended up being more of a column about the taste of moviegoers today than it was an actual critique of the movie itself. It floors me how many people I've met who claim they were bored by the film, that there wasn't enough humor for them, that it wasn't kid-friendly enough, that they – and this one just kills me – wanted more actual dialogue and that it was too "silent" for them. This both freaks me out and depresses me, and while I hope beyond hope that they movie will achieve the type of success it totally deserves a part of me thinks this is going to have a second week drop akin to the ones suffered by The Happening and The Incredible Hulk.

That said, the "fat" argument annoys me. WALL-E isn't even remotely against fat people. If anything, it uses the concept of obesity as a metaphor representing that, in this future, the robots we have entrusted our care to have become more intimate, more emotional, more inquisitive and, yes, more human than the virtually robotic slobs we in turn have allowed ourselves to become. Considering that obesity is on the rise, that we entrust more and more of our simple day-to-day acitvites to electronic devices designed to make our lives "easier" and that we spend more hours playing video games then we doing going outside and running around (let along taking an old fashioned walk), this doesn't exactly seem all that far-fetched to me.

Great job, Brad.

On a completely off-topic side note, I definitely have to give you props Mr. Lumenick. As much as Brad bashes you I find it really impressive that you keep coming back reading the site and voicing your opinion. That's very cool.

Personally, I don't think you're even close to the worst critic working today (but, admittedly, I do think that whole Shyamalan thing was a little weird – I'm just saying) and anyone who can agree with me pretty much exactly on both The Visitot and Alvin and the Chipmunks can't be all bad. (You're totally wrong about Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, though. I'm just sayin'. ;) )