I was today years old when I figured out that WALL-E (2008) is just a re-telling of the movie Idiocracy (2006).
Don’t take this the wrong way. I like both movies. However, the parallels I see off the top of my head:
- The world is a mess, literally and figuratively;
- People are obsessed with low-grade entertainment and let their minds (and, in the case of WALL-E, their bodies) fall apart, while machines and automation have kept society from collapsing
- Nobody knows how to get plants to grow;
- Someone from the past holds the key to saving the world
There are probably more, this is all going from memory while I was in the shower this morning.