I do. I saw the same thing. Granted, the obvious green propaganda was ‘bleh’, but I saw an interesting message. SPOILERS AHEAD.
The robots = big government, willing to do whatever it takes (i.e. stealing the plant from EVE and WALL-E) to keep the people subservient to them.
The humans = people on welfare, reduced to a slovenly, obese state where there’s no incentive to do anything because everything’s taken care of. Why waste the effort?
Then along comes WALL-E, and people see there are other things. Case in point; when two people finally start seeing things differently, their suits morph from Democrat Blue to Republican Red. ;)
True, the whole ‘green’ angle was annoying, but I actually found a redeeming message of individualism and conservatism underneath it all.
Funny, I saw the same movie and came away with an entirely different reaction. I hated it.
Where you saw victims of government largesse, I saw fat lazy slobs, thoroughly unconnected to one another, lost in their own little worlds of advertising and consumerism. The evil corporation was only too happy to cash in. But the humans weren’t portrayed as the victims....Earth was. Even the space outside Earth was totally littered with debris...put there by humans, of course.
I can see your perspective. It just wasn’t how I saw the movie. My take was very similar to the reviewer’s.
OTH, Kung Fu Panda surprised me immensely. The beautiful animation alone makes it worth seeing.