Wall-e

Standard issue Pixar tear jerker that has gotten a bit of bad press for portraying humankind as a bunch of nasty litterbugs.  I still liked it, though the story does have a few holes big enough to drive a Spacefaring Cruise ship through. The hero, such as he/it is, is a little robot bearing a striking resemblance to Number 5 from Short Circuit.  His job is to clean up the Earth, one pile of scrap metal at a time.  He is a walking garbage compactor who has been busy for the last 700 years or so turning random bits of…

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