“A is for Axiom, your home sweet home. B is for Buy N Large, your very best friend.” — An AI schoolteacher in Wall-E.
Recommended Videos The fact that Wall-E does all of this without ever losing its family-friendly sheen is a testament to the skill of its creative team. That said, once Wall-E abandons the silent-movie-inspired romance of its Earth-set first act, it becomes clear that the animated film is as much a portrait of humanity at large gone dangerously astray as it is a love story between two robots.
For starters, it’s revealed that the ship’s humans have become incapable of walking on their own because of the hover chairs they constantly float around in. Human-to-human contact, meanwhile, has been all but destroyed because everyone has become programmed to spend their days looking at the same virtual screens. If any of them do converse with each other, it’s via Zoom-like virtual conference calls from their hover chairs.
Wall-E shows a human society that is all too willing to let machines take over In this same sequence, Wall-E also catches up with B. McCrea , the captain of the film’s central spaceship. McCrea, like all of the Axiom’s passengers, is guided every day by his robot assistants and hover chair, as well as his sentient autopilot AI companion, AUTO.