I’m glad I have a thick skin …
I’m one of the few critics listed at Rotten Tomatoes who gave “WALL*E” a less than stellar review – call us the 4 Percenters (the film got a 96 percent “Fresh” rating). And I got slammed – hard – in the comments section of the site. So did the few others who gave it a less than glowing review.
What gives? None of my other reviews have inspired this sort of vitriol.
From my initial head scratching I can point to two reasons for the assault on me – and some of the comments are pretty ugly.
- It’s the politics, stupid. The film has a pro-environment, anti-consumer subtext (well, it’s more like text, really). As a critic I’m paid to look past that, and frankly if I were to thumb my nose at every left-leaning film I’d be exhausted. I don’t work that way, but at the same time I have to mention those elements in my reviews.
- There’s a huge group of Pixar lovers, and they won’t tolerate their beloved studio getting criticized. Heck, I’m a Pixar lover … unabashedly so. This one just let me down.
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Here Here! The movie lost all steam with it’s sledgehammer “message”…and when the humans showed up. Before that, I was awe-stricken by the simplistic nature of WALL-E and how sweet it was. Damn dirty apes! Probably how we’ll all end up if we keep on with the nanny state mentality.