'WALL-- E' blatantly political

This letter is in response to Michael Gearson's starry-eyed review of the movie "WALL-- E" in the July 12 Comment section. I took my 9-year-old son to see this movie the day it came out. As I bought our tickets the clerk handed my son a small package. After the movie, he opened it to find a plastic WALL-- E watch that wouldn't work, along with three trading cards for another soon-to- be-released movie.

The irony of my child receiving junk related to the "WALL-- E" movie did not escape me. Nor did the hypocrisy. It's acceptable to pick on fat people. But try portraying any other cross-section of our society in such a negative light. Make a kids' movie showing where the ills of selecting a child's gender might take us in 700 years. I doubt you'd get such a dreamy review.

Liberals cannot foretell the future any better than conservatives. I personally give the human race more credit than the "WALL-- E" movie does. The cute robot held my son's attention. The blatant political agenda was, thankfully, way over his head.

Ellen Hindman

Bountiful

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