You've heard of postmodern and post-postmodern, but the age we currently live in is the pre-post-apocalyptic age. We're obsessed with the end of it all. Sometimes the world ends with a dance party or a flu-like virus; sometimes it's zombies, or zombies, or… zombies

And sometimes, it's our own stupid fault. Like in WALL-E, a cautionary tale about how laziness isn't just self-destructive—it could end up destroying the world. This laziness takes on a variety of forms, like depending on one corporation for every aspect of life, staring at a screen instead of the world around you, and eating about 10,000 more calories than you expend in a day.

Being a G-rated picture, WALL-E skips over most of the fall of Earth (which probably wasn't pretty) and gets right to the recovery of our beloved home planet. Unlike some grimmer post-apocalyptic stories, WALL-E's unique spin on the genre is to focus on non-human heroes, on hope, and on lurrrve.

Maybe the robots, being hardworking, are the ones who deserve l'amour. The humans, who screwed it all up in the first place, are going to have to work a little harder for love, sweet love.