2008's WALL-E tells the story of a trash-compacting robot who rolls around a barren, garbage-covered Earth while obese humans idly reside in a perpetually floating orbital space station called the Axiom. The blatant environmentalist and anti-consumerist themes here aren't exactly buried, and they got a lot of attention on the film's release, but director Andrew Stanton denies this slant was ever intended.
"I don't have an ecological bone in my body" the filmmaker claimed in an interview with ComingSoon. The motivation behind depicting a desolate trash planet was purely functional and aesthetic, a means of providing an easily and instantly understandable situation for his main character. There's a bunch of trash, no one else is around to pick it up, and so WALL-E's purpose in this world is clear.
Likewise, Stanton says the depiction of obese humans in the space station wasn't so much a critique of corporatism, over-consumption, or greed as it was merely a representation of what happens to the body when it's been in space for a long time. Was he just toeing the political line and keeping politics out of it? Possibly, but it didn't really work. Most celebrated this aspect, others criticized it, but basically everyone acknowledged it was there.
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