More on WALL-E

I was concerned that the Fred Willard's appearance in WALL-E would disqualify it from the Best Animated Feature Award. Rule 7 says "An animated feature film is defined as a motion picture created using a frame-by-frame technique of at least 70 minutes in running time with a significant number of the major characters animated, and in which animation figures in no less than 75% of the picture’s running time." So it seems it won't be a problem. Waking Life and Beowulf qualified. Then again at this point I think it should be considered for Best Feature Film and join Beauty and the Beast as the only animated film to be nominated in that category.

It seems that I was wrong in my thought that everyone should enjoy WALL-E. The New York Times reports on what some right-wingers felt. "Two denizens of National Review Greg Pollowitz and Shannen Coffin think Pixar’s latest is a bit of “leftist propaganda about the evils of mankind,” as Coffin puts it. “It was like a 90-minute lecture on the dangers of over consumption, big corporations, and the destruction of the environment,” Pollowitz writes at Planet Gore, National Review’s global-warming blog."

I think these people must be deranged. At least, "Blogland moves at the speed of thought, however, and already the right-wing backlash to the right-wing backlash against “Wall-E” is underway. Jonah Goldberg chimes in with a brief rebuttal at The Corner. He calls “Wall-E” a “fascinating and at-times brilliant movie.”" Think Progress has an article on this getting lots of comments.