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Also, I'm pretty sure that the anti-war stuff would have more to do with Japanese passivism since the U.S. dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII, especially since Toby, Dr. Tenma's son, gets vaporized right at the beginning of the movie, just like many people did in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This sort of thing is actually very standard in Japanese entertainment. For example, Godzilla is produced by hazardous effects of the atom bomb on the environment, etc.

And, in case you are wondering, I have voted for the Republican candidate for president in every election so far. I am closer to being a libertarian than a communist, and I certainly support family values. I just happen to think that this sort of paranoia may be a little unfounded guys.

Just enjoy the movie, people! It's ENTERTAINMENT. Just like the manga.

Also, had they been left to their own devices? The movie takes place in a future earth, so presumably there was a Christ and a Bible. What happened to them?

Christianity is not a religion of helpless sufferers, it's a religion of people who recognize the truth, recognize their place in the scheme of things, show gratitude for what is offered, and then stand by those truths and that gratitude even when things get rough. I've never been fond of the sack-cloth-and-ashes version of Christianity where some constantly flagellate themselves and focus on how sinful they are. The great Christians I've seen throughout history all seemed to have said to themselves, "Yes, I'm fallen and imperfect, and I thank God for my salvation — now what can I *do*?"

The movie doesn't just depict humans as spiritually vacuous, but physically, emotionally, socially and morally weak, too. I don't know. I guess people have gotten so wrapped up in their fallenness and sin before — the flood, Sodom and Gomorrah — and there have even been some cases, such as in Job, where someone interceded and saved a sinful population.

Yet this movie still offends me. Compare to another explicitly Christian allegory, the Chronicles of Narnia. Aslan requires so much more of the fallen humans to whom he reveals himself. Compare the redemption of Edmund, for example, with the bland good intentions of the ship's caption in Wall-E. Edmund took responsibility for his own sin, suffered the consequences of it and emerged better for it. He's not a bumbling comedic figure. I haven't seen Wall-E since it came out, but I remember feeling at the time that the Captain's "redemption" went far less than halfway. He was no Edmund.

If there was a redemptive message, the fact that all the really hard work went on "off-screen" in the credits demeans the message.