Stereotypes In Pixar's Movie 'Wall-E'

Pixar's movie WALL-E, may be able two robots falling in love but the message is directed solely at the humans. In the film, the last generations of the human race are overweight and lazy people who’s only mode of transportation is a moving chair and only way to consume food is by putting the food into a liquid form to be eaten. While companies like Disney and Pixar is usually draw their cartoon figures with the tiniest of waists, the characters in Wall-E changed that stereotype. People believed that the creators of Wall-E were calling the human race out saying that people who are overweight do not have as much worth in society as slimmer people. Unfortunately a large majority of the population who watch Pixar movies today are overweight so immediately there was a sudden lashing out about the movie and the message it was sending. I believe that the filmmakers were not trying to call out all overweight people as being useless slobs but instead calling …show more content…
What people do not realize is that the real culprit of many people who have obesity is genetics. Not everyone who is overweight is a food-crazed slob. Some are victims of terrible genes from their parents and you cannot judge people on their appearance or body type when they cannot help it. Although Pixar is targeting their audiences around the world, there is one culture with the highest obesity rate in the world that they are targeting in particular, America. Fast food chains are slowly burying us in piles of greasy and processed, fake looking meat and overly salted and oily fries. In order to transform the cow to the patty on your plate, it takes a lot of work which leaves a large ecological footprint. This footprint is the reason why families like Barbara Kingsolver's have stopped buying fast food meals and even cut down on the amount of meat that they