WALL-E and the lardies

Have you seen it? It's fantastic. The first non-dialogue 40 minutes is as good as anything modern American cinema has produced. I've been fascinated by the furore kicked up by its portrayal of fat post-apocalyptic Americans. My first reaction was, a la the fat aristocrats in French & Saunders, that it was all a lot of fuss and nonsense. And my second.