This week we're going to the dystopian future for a love story between Johnny Five and the latest Apple HomePod in Wall-E. Join your favourite Disney Podcasters – Ellie, Ethan, Georgia, and Ian - alongside Liam from Best Film Ever - as we allow Disney/Pixar to lecture us about the dangers of big corporations taking over the world. It's a humanity-filled 58th episode as we discuss:
How a single lunch meeting brought us a decade of Pixar releases
We discuss the similarities between Wall-E's character design and the main attraction from the Short Circuit series of films
We ask if children from 7-14 would love a dialogue free (and therefore, largely joke-free) film
We gush over some of the visual sequences both on Earth and off
Does Pixar just repurpose The Little Mermaid for their own use (that's an awfully Wall-E thing to do actually)
Ian imagines a remaking of the film with American rapper Wale in the titular role
We all start to feel a bit hypocritical about our own screen usage.
Ian discusses the ridiculousness of burger imagery to a society that's never eaten a proper hamburger
Whether or not this a glorified silent film
Whether or not Wall-E is the Best PIxar Film yetIf that wasn't enough for you, we've got some more content from friend of the podcast, Andrew, in our Pause for the Parks segment.
So, catch up on some great Disney content and then join the conversation (@talkthemickey), Instagram (@talkingthemickey), or on our Facebook page (@talkingthemickey). If you comment, you may end up among our 'shoutouts of the week.’