Overall Rating:

1 out of 5

Ludicrous message, and kids don't like it., June 1, 2009
By canuck12345

"This is a dreadful movie. I went to see it with my five year old daughter and a friend's 6 year old son. I didn't pre-screen it, which was my own fault.

About 30 minutes into the movie, my daughter turned to me and asked, "Hey, Dad, is there any talking in this movie?" And I thought I was the only bored person.

When the dialog finally started, I began to miss the relative quiet of the beginning of the film. Here's the synopsis: stupid people leave the earth that they destroyed, live on a space ship, and get even fatter and dumber than they were when they left the earth the first time, and need a robot to help them regain their humanity.

I have no idea why it's become so trendy to question mankind's existence and downplay human innovation, but here yet again we get what is essentially a children's enviro-propoganda movie that doesn't bother attempting to disguise itself as anything else.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good morality play, and I think it's great when a kid's movie has a positive educational message. But the message of this film is that people are fat, lazy, and stupid, and I'm glad to say that the kids at this movie weren't having any of it. There were a bunch of bored looking kids heading to the exits after this one, and while the movie was clearly appreciated by the more impressionable adults among them, anybody smarter than the intellectually stunted caricatures portrayed in the film left wishing they'd done absolutely anything other than expose their kids to this garbage. Do yourself and your family a favor, and watch something else."

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