#Even Buy n Large seems to be a direct parody of Wal-Mart or so being a tech and food producer instead of the entertainment industry.

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A weird thing about the sudden shift once they are on the spaceship is that it completely kills the narrative from before. At first, it seems like a criticism of capitalism, framing the corporation Buy n Large as a greedy entity willing to sacrifice the planet to operate until it gets to the point that the Earth is no longer inhabitable. Rather than take responsibility, they abandon it with a bare minimum attempt to fix it by making little robots which are clearly not up to the task to automate a cleanup attempt. Ok, from here you have a compelling narrative of the conflict, and then you get to the spaceship, and instead of it being the fault of the corporation, no, humans are the problem. Instead of "the earth was left to burn for profit" it became "humans gave up on saving the planet."

It takes a sharp turn from mega corporations will kill the planet when left to their own devices to humans are bad and dumb so we all let nature die and then framing people as fat and lazy as the vice that lead to the world in this state. It's the equivalent of corporations nowadays deflecting blame by telling people to not use plastic straws. There are traces of the previous message in things like the glance at the nursery where children are being conditioned by the BnL corporation as early propaganda, but the rest of the movie never really addresses it. Instead of a reflection of how things got to where they were and how it should have changed, it's framed as a conflict of surrendering vs having hope and nothing is ever answered.

Like OP said, instead of being fatphobic and shaming people who need mobility aids, the plot could have actually been something far more deep. Why did the captain never learn about old Earth, nor have any idea what art or dancing was? The movie could have revolved around that very important plot point and then been framed in such a way that they could have been reclaiming what they lost when the mega corporation turned them into perfect complicit consumers instead of people with any aspirations of their own. Instead of people being fat and stupid, they could be overworked and ignorant, and then seeing what the old world was like could have been a wake-up call to individuality and rejecting product culture and in turn having environmental consciousness. Instead, it's just an extended joke about lazy fat people who never look away from computer screens wrapped up with a heartwarming open-ended conclusion where nothing was learned, but it's ok because they are good people now who can walk without their scooters.

it was kind of fucked up for wall-e to be that way about fat people now that im thinking about it