Stop Selling Me Your Damned Lies!

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Does anyone really buy the media spin going on regarding Pixar's Wall-E? Namely, this tall tale spun here by NYT:

"Last year’s offering, “Ratatouille,” about a cartoon rat with Cordon Bleu aspirations, seemed like a hard sell. But Pixar may have outdone itself in the weird-premises department with “Wall-E,” a $180 million post-apocalyptic, near-silent robot love story inspired by Charlie Chaplin."

That's just one of several pieces I've seen take this tone; this "Ohmigod what was Pixar thinking!" tone that they fling at us year in, year out, trying to make us think that nobody in their right mind would want to watch an animated movie about:

A) Icky fish!
B) Icky rats!
C) Icky bugs!
D) Icky autos!

They do this every damned time, and we wonder, hmm, maybe they're right, maybe Pixar's gone mad with power! They'll surely push the envelope too far, they'll be burning their wings on the sun any year now for sure! And then like clockwork the movie comes out and once again it's a critical and box office wonder filled with gorgeous visuals and first-rate story-telling and we all breathe our sigh of relief and bow down to the Pixar brand once again.

Well I'm finished. I'm not playing their games. There is no drama here; there is no "underdog proving their mettle anew" tale here beyond the media fabrication of one.

Pixar knows what they're doing. I trust them. The end.
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